Princeton transfer shooting guard is signing a contract for over $6 million to play for the University of Florida next season A whopping 12 points per game in the Ivy league and he pulls in that kind of money from a public institution
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...-nil-contracts-during-his-one-season-at-duke/ $28 million for one year.
A federal judge has approved terms of a sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust settlement. This ends amateurism as we know it and schools will now pay their athletes directly. -- I cant believe how insane this is. For reference, there are nearly 200,000 athletes and 350 schools in Division I alone and 500,000 and 1,100 schools across the entire NCAA. How in the fuck are American universities going to be able to maintain that? The answer is they won't. Severe cuts are on their way to the "olympic sports" and by that I mean anything that's not football or basketball. This has already started. American universities have downgraded or eliminated over one olympic sports program every single day for the last 6 months and it is going to get worse. you will see universities start to only sponsor 2 or 3 sports programs for men and women respectively and the number of college athletes will be cut in half or worse. So many young people have benefitted and got a college education through these sports offerings over the past few decades, very sad situation. -- Lastly, tuition for regular students, already out of control, will skyrocket. Consider VCU, a solid mid major basketball program, but definitely not a blue blood rich with donors. They are going to be paying their basketball players up to $324,000 each straight from the university funds. That's like adding 15 fucking new college chancellor salaries... every single year. To make up the cost they are raising student fees. This is a public school btw, Virginia Commonwealth University, with taxpayers supporting this nonsense
This is a pretty cool site that allows you to look up the revenue/expenses/net profit per each sports program at each college. https://www.collegefactual.com/coll...l-and-mechanical-college/student-life/sports/ I don’t see how any sport is going to survive other than football and basketball. Even baseball and hockey at the big schools are net losses for the most part.
Just crazy to me that a swimmer with a dick finishes in 8th place once and its all everyone talks about and politicians in every state campaign about. But this.. much greater impact. it will lead to the end of sanctioned scholarship swimming for thousands of student athletes, dicks or no dicks, and it doesn't get any news or campaign soundbites
I’m not crying for Michigan’s budget but this is only the beginning to be able to afford players. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.c...t-deficit/?issueId=I6MQOW5EONE7VLKAMZBNQ2C3JI
A judge ruled today that a West Virginia University defensive lineman must be given an extra year of eligibility and be allowed to play immediately. What makes this one different is that the player in question, not only will be playing his 5th year of college sports, but flunked out of the previous school he transferred from. his academic status was not even considered in this “graduate student” waiver — soon, academic status will be deemed an unfair restriction on trade and none of the players will even have to be students for the universities they play for
He is a “graduate student” that is for sure not a graduate, and probably not even a real student. The football season ends in December, he just has to pretend for a few months
I saw your post and went diving for more news on this. It’s like a friggin snipe hunt trying to find something with any clarity. Crazy. Seems like there’s no way WVU can safely play this kid without clearer direction from this judge. Near as I can tell, he ruled on anti-trust grounds that the NCAA can’t deny Jimmori Robinson and three other transfer players another year of eligibility. Big surprise - the NCAA lost again. I’m okay with that part. The part about Robinson’s academic eligibility is still hazy. It would be flat-out nuts if the judge actually meant that academic eligibility was no longer a thing. If I were WVU, I wouldn’t put that kid anywhere near a football field on game day until that’s confirmed. Otherwise, the NCAA, being a bunch of useless, incel pricks, will declare every WVU game he’s in a forfeit.
Agree on both points. Brown was fun to watch. Best you could say for Boise, if you’re gonna blow a game, this was the one.
It’s a bad look for Boise State especially given how they literally got blown out. This is the only game between the AAC and the Mountain West. If an AAC champion has a comparable year to BSU or the Mountain West winner, the AAC might get the edge? What Travis Hunter did playing both ways was and always will be impressive but I still think Jeantty was the Heisman winner last year. This sorta helps validate it. I don’t think people realize they went toe to toe with Oregon IN Eugene last year on his back while Madsen was 17/40 for 148 yards.
Yeah, there’s that. Probably does matter more for Group of Five. Less room for error. I also caught Nebraska-Cincinnati in the Kansas City Classic - which I never knew existed until now. Is this what we’re doing now? We’ve run out of fringe-sponsor bowl games and shifted to kickoff “classics”? Don’t you have to exist for a while before you can claim the title “classic”? Or, was this just a way to invite Taylor Swift to show off her fucking ring and ruin college football also? Don’t mind me. I’m grumbly about that last part.
There are a bunch of neutral site bullshit games going on this weekend and throughout the year. Games that would be awesome if they were playing in home environments. Virginia Tech-South Carolina in… Atlanta, Georgia? Georgia Tech-Georgia is also played at Mercedes Benz at the end of the year along with Syracuse/Tennessee played there tomorrow. So dumb. Charlotte/App State at Bank of America Stadium.
It’s not dumb though. Atlanta is completely surging in terms of talent. This season 1 out of every 11 players in the NFL is from Georgia. (Mostly Atlanta) Teams want to play in front of them
Wasn’t aware of that stat, but I do follow the talent pool. Surprised, not shocked. Semi-related, this always blows my mind. Around where I live, the average high school coaching salary is around $40k-$50k. [I had to edit this twice when I was pleasantly surprised it’s that high and I’m ten years behind the times]. Nowhere close to the list below. Texas is no different. And Buford GA just built a $68 million football stadium. Taxpayers here would storm town hall over that. It just *cough* means more.
