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The Lane Train (And the Rest of College Football Madness) Has Been Fueled by Easy Money
Posted on 12/5/25 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 1:28 pm
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While the burning of large sums of money this year seems like pure madness, there are rational explanations as to why these college programs are willing to shell out this kind of money for their sports programs, and especially football. College football revenue has increased by roughly 300 percent since 2005, driven by increasingly lucrative television contracts from media giants such as Disney, CBS, and Fox. With new television deals has come increased realignment of athletic conferences, creating a culture of fear of an uncompetitive program being left behind during the next round of negotiations, as what happened to Oregon State and Washington State when the PAC 10 collapsed from their own mismanagement.
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Posted on 12/5/25 at 1:35 pm to RollTide4Ever
But it's not the schools that are actually paying all this money. It's their boosters and donors.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 2:44 pm to RollTide4Ever
Boosters don't give a shite about TV ratings. It's more a pride thing than any other individual thing.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 3:29 pm to 3down10
quote:I'd like to see a list of various contracts for services at each university. You know somebody gets a $10 million chain-link fence or pressure wash a building, and the company then happens to donate 7 mil to NIL.
But it's not the schools that are actually paying all this money. It's their boosters and donors.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 3:32 pm to RollTide4Ever
Live look at Bama right now.
Yall have a game tomorrow btw
Posted on 12/5/25 at 3:34 pm to Scoob
quote:Sounds like something LSU might do
I'd like to see a list of various contracts for services at each university. You know somebody gets a $10 million chain-link fence or pressure wash a building, and the company then happens to donate 7 mil to NIL.
This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 3:43 pm to JJxvi
quote:Sounds like something everyone might doquote:
I'd like to see a list of various contracts for services at each university. You know somebody gets a $10 million chain-link fence or pressure wash a building, and the company then happens to donate 7 mil to NIL.
Sounds like something LSU might do
And it's probably 100% legal... we pay that company more because "we like the quality of their work".
Schools need to get Elon Musk to run a DOGE, in reverse. Find ways to spread that TV money more efficiently.
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