Study: D-I football, men's hoops players worth at least six figures per year

He's right. The Title IX issue will be something else you just can't get around.

 

"If"

 

What some people get and others don't is that the money generated by football and basketball fund the other sports no different than any high school. It's not about an individual sports' bottom line but that of the athletic department as a whole like pretty much every business in the world. Sure there is still big money being made, but not the millions stacked on millions that people think. Yes, Big Time SEC Football Team might generate $20 million a year, but Same Big Time SEC Athletic Department might only clear $2 million (those are just random numbers). The money generated by football pays to send the volleyball team or baseball team from Columbia to Fayetteville for a mid week contest.

In some states, such as Tennessee, it's been sent down by the state government that all college athletic departments are on their own. State money can not be used to fund athletics. So when some states prop up their athletic departments and others don't, the money issue becomes more cloudy.

 

Don't nickle and dime the athletes, and maybe they'll be willing to settle for a plan that would cost the owners (in this case, the schools and the NCAA) less than it would if the athletes get total freedom.

Heck, if the NCAA passed a rule allowing athletes to receive, let's say, a gift up to $200, it'd solve a lot of the compliance issues that schools and athletes are receiving now. Instead of worrying about the small stuff, they could then focus on the larger stuff.

But noooo. They've got to worry about someone buying an athlete a hamburger or a beer. And some of the stuff that the NCAA has relented on (such as their emergency fund) only happened after they got shamed into doing so (such as paying for a kid to fly home for their parent's funeral).

And as far as funding for the other teams goes, how did schools fund teams back when there wasn't as much money? They paid for it themselves, and had the teams hold bake sales. Why can't it happen again?

Bottom line is, for all the whining about how only 20 schools are making profits, there's still money out there. It needs to be allocated differently.

 

Oh sorry. Forgot the complimentary lap dance gift certificates for the local bowl's official strip clubs.

 

Found a Darren Rovell ESPN.com column on NCAA Tournament TV deals.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?id=2186638

In 1984, the package was worth $16M, which is about $33 million in today's dollars. In 1990, it was worth $55 million, which is about $90 mill in today's dollars.

The package that was signed in 2004? Worth $545 million.

The package today: 14 years, $10.8 billion for an average of over $771 million per year.

http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/269294-ncaa-tv-deal-changes-fans-watch-tourney.html

And all these years, there has still been the smaller men's sports, and the women's sports. They were financed back then, with a lot less cash.

So again, where is all this money going?

 

I have it.

 

I don't know, but here's an educated guess as to where the money goes:
Today's college athletes from Auburn's football team to the Northwest Idaho Technical Beauty College JV badminton team think they are entitled to four pairs of shoes, three sets of travel clothes, six sets of sweats, two hats, gloves, visors, two rolls of tape for the outside of their shoes every day in practice, new socks and their own whole pizza after every game. I don't remember which team it was, but I remember just this past week hearing a coach talk about putting the team up in a local hotel on Friday before a home game.

25 years ago, if you gave a kid a windbreaker and let him eat in the cafeteria, he was happy with that.

 

Because the courts said it wasn't OK for the football team to get everything and the women's swimming team to have to scrounge and hold bake sales. I presume you are OK with the court's stance on that.

 

Sure you can. Depending who gets elected in another year or so, Title IX enforcement could vanish like a fart in the wind.

 

Then have both teams hold bake sales then.

Which is one of the things I mean when they claim they don't have money. They do. They just choose to spend it on stuff that's beyond what they need.

 

You say there's enough money to go around for everything (which is clearly false), and yet here you say that after adding to expenses by paying players that everyone should have a bake sale to pay those expenses they just added.

You are making no sense at all.