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247Sports' Bud Elliott believes Bama/UGA should get a larger revenue share in conference
Posted on 10/10/24 at 11:34 am
Posted on 10/10/24 at 11:34 am
Agreed. frick this conference and all of its welfare queens.
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Posted on 10/10/24 at 12:05 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
frick yea, brother! While we are at it…. just make Alabama Crimson Tide a NFL team.
We don’t tune-in to see them play school!
We don’t tune-in to see them play school!
Posted on 10/10/24 at 12:49 pm to UASports23
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frick yea, brother! While we are at it…. just make Alabama Crimson Tide a NFL team.
I don't know if there are enough decent college teams to do it, but at this point it makes more sense to literally just affiliate 32 of them to NFL teams and make it a full-blown minor league system. There is nothing "amateur" about collegiate athletics now.
Posted on 10/10/24 at 1:18 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
Do that and pretty soon those six teams will be the only ones left playing major league college football. At some point everyone has to stop and realize that "gimme gimme gimme mine mine mine" isn't always the best policy.
Posted on 10/10/24 at 1:46 pm to TheTideMustRoll
Also sports are cylindrical, Bama is on top now but it won't always be that way. You'd want this when Bama is back near the bottom?
Posted on 10/10/24 at 1:56 pm to BFANLC
havent we already seen this model. i think they called it the big 12 when in actuality it was the big 2, texas and oklahoma. we know how that went.
Posted on 10/10/24 at 2:32 pm to BFANLC
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Also sports are cylindrical,
Posted on 10/10/24 at 4:22 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
Completely disagree
Posted on 10/10/24 at 6:27 pm to UhOhOreo
Terrible idea.
Just look at some of the European leagues.
La Liga season starts and only 2.5 teams have a chance to win it.
Barcelona and Madrid get like 65% of TV money for the entire league.
It is short sighted and bad for overall health of the sport.
Just look at some of the European leagues.
La Liga season starts and only 2.5 teams have a chance to win it.
Barcelona and Madrid get like 65% of TV money for the entire league.
It is short sighted and bad for overall health of the sport.
Posted on 10/10/24 at 8:44 pm to BFANLC
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cylindrical
BS it’s is oblong
Posted on 10/10/24 at 9:03 pm to labamafan
And a spheroid at that
Posted on 10/10/24 at 9:40 pm to labamafan
I've changed my incorrectness...it's tangular
Posted on 10/11/24 at 7:18 am to BFANLC
Real competition is the key to lasting success. Most people don't enjoy watching a superior team beat up on a lesser opponent. Vandy beating Alabama was probably good for the conference and game. Look at what Texas did to the Southwest Conference and to a lesser extend the Big 12. Initially the Southwest conference was very competitively until Texas go greedy and hogged all the top players. Texas single handedly killed the Southwest Conference. In the Big 12 they insisted on their own network and not a conference network. That probably drove Nebraska out. Without Oklahoma the Big 12 would not have lasted as long as it did. Texas greed cannot be underestimate. They are back and will try to control the SEC. Hopefully the SEC is strong enough to prevent this.
Posted on 10/11/24 at 1:22 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
People throw the term, “It’s a business,” a lot but that’s really a misleading comment.
College athletics are specifically a nonprofit business. They exist to serve a charitable mission. Maximizing revenue is not that charitable mission.
This isn’t a private entity where an owner is taking a personal financial risk to generate a return. These are administrators appointed to act in the best interest of the University who are just acting in their self interest.
Annual revenue for UA’s athletic department from 2013 to 2022 grew by $61M. During that same period scholarship expenses increased by only $5M.
If less than 10% of the revenue is going to scholarships, what mission do these departments serve that warrants tax-exempt status?
College athletics are specifically a nonprofit business. They exist to serve a charitable mission. Maximizing revenue is not that charitable mission.
This isn’t a private entity where an owner is taking a personal financial risk to generate a return. These are administrators appointed to act in the best interest of the University who are just acting in their self interest.
Annual revenue for UA’s athletic department from 2013 to 2022 grew by $61M. During that same period scholarship expenses increased by only $5M.
If less than 10% of the revenue is going to scholarships, what mission do these departments serve that warrants tax-exempt status?
Posted on 10/11/24 at 1:33 pm to BFANLC
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sports are cylindrical
NCAA used to have laws that were much more rhombus than they are now. They don't cover nearly as much ground as they used to
Posted on 10/11/24 at 2:29 pm to BFANLC
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Also sports are cylindrical, Bama is on top now but it won't always be that way. You'd want this when Bama is back near the bottom?
Then we'd be a power bottom.
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