(06-01-2019 01:59 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (06-01-2019 01:52 PM)quo vadis Wrote: The B1G just distributed $55m per school in 2018.
If that's a "botch" what would a success look like?
While the market model holds up, yes. And those B1G numbers are fudged some. And no amount of athletic profit justifies the negligent manslaughter of a player or organized and covered up pedophilia. If if makes you feel any better I would have removed UNC's accreditation as a university for their academic fraud misdeeds, but that sounds too much like ethics with teeth for the NCAA to stomach. Another round of death penalties for SMU for everyone!
IMO, market models don't have much to do with underlying value. E.g., the past five years there has been a sea-change in the movie industry, as the home media market has plummeted in the face of streaming.
E.g., in 2014, the Disney movie "Frozen" did about $400 million in DVD and Blu-Ray sales. Last year, Black Panther, a movie that did $300m MORE than Frozen at the domestic box office, did a total of $100m in DVD and Blu-Ray business. Overall, the home physical media business was $26B in 2014, $12B and falling last year. And that was a HUGE source of revenue for the film companies.
But guess what? Actors like the Iron Man guy are still making $40m a film, their pay hasn't been cut at all, and companies like Disney and Comcast and Warners are stronger than ever, because the money just shifted to streaming. People didn't stop liking and paying for movies, they just shifted the model.
The same will happen with college football. Whatever happens to cable, streaming, etc. the underlying value of college football will be there, and the conferences will get paid.
Regarding the paedophilia of MSU and PSU, I agree, but all I was talking about was conference money, nothing else.