re: Selling our Souls

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The big Money in College Sports came from 2 distinct factors, the explosion of Cable TV where every household now has 200 channels, AND the emergence of the Minority Athlete

The combination of those 2 factors is why there is so much money in College Sports, not genius HCs like Saban, we had genius HCs similar to Saban in the 40s thru 60s and adjusted for inflation, the money doesn't compare

In the 40s thru the 60s we had Fans, but not the huge economies of scale that we have now

If you really cared about RACIAL EQUALITY, then stop forcing the 2 Sports that are majority Black to finance every other MONEY-LOSING Sport and to spread some of that money around to the Revenue Making Players above their scholly

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There is big time money in CF today, but most of it is put back into the programs and the players. You notice very few programs are showing a profit every year and the profit is minimal compared to the revenue. The biggest difference between CF in the 40s-60s and now is the Schools use Football for marketing the Universities. The big time money is secondary to attracting future students.

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Question:

Why do YOU say these Athletes will never see racial equality in their lifetimes?

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Because the majority of them do not have the financial means or the educational background to achieve the benefits of most of their fellow students. They would have have to have good grades to get in the schools, good scores on entrance test, maintain good grades while in school and obtain jobs without the Athletic Dept connections. That may not be fair but that is the reality of the world for most students.

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Is that because you know from personal experience that Corp America is racist?

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No, Corporate America is bottom line driven. How many Athletes do you know of have gotten great jobs based on the connections to playing football for a school? That goes away without Football.

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So your idea of "racial equality" is to have these Athletes in FB & MBB at P5 Colleges , get economically taken advantage of for 3-5 yrs in exchange for a bachelor's degree, then after helping coaches to earn $9MM per yr and ADs earn $1.5MM per year, only then can they expect "racial equality"

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Welcome to the real world. How many worker do you know that work just as hard to put food on the table for their family so CEO can get rich ? True racial equality occurs when peoples failures in life can only be attributed to personal decisions and personalities, until then we will have people making money and achieving attention of yelling racism.

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Why does the Black Athlete have to do so much more than others to get the same "equality" that should be a part of the Social Contract that comes with American Citizenship?

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That may be true for the average Black Citizen, but hasn't been true for the Black Athlete or any Athlete. They are allowed to cut to the front of the line into some elite institutions, they are fed and boarded to the level of VIPs of any institution and they are educated and tutored for success. Tell me what % of any College Student Body that can say the same. And yet they want to bite the hand.