Running SCOTUS thread

Five star players aren’t making those decisions based on the pocket change they can get from a local burrito joint. They want to go somewhere with the best odds of landing them on a NFL roster, particularly as a first-rounder.

 

The NCAA itself isn't winding up in the poorhouse any time soon. One trip to their national office in Indianapolis will tell you they've spent just as lavishly as the schools they represent. They have 720 permanent employees, not including committees and internships.

This is a pretty telling fact: "NCAA's headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. NCAA generates $1.5M in revenue per employee."

https://www.owler.com/company/nationalcollegiateathleticassociation

 

In the NCAA's defense, that's far less than one full-time employee per member school. Doesn't seem unreasonable.

They could probably use that many full-time employees in enforcement alone.

 

See that's the problem, those employees are doing nothing to generate the revenue; that $1B in revenue is generated for the most part by kids that are being "given" a one year scholarship worth at times $80k/yr or as little as $15k/yr.

 

Five stars won't be out endorsing burgers unless the franchise pays lots of cash. Hell, Clay Travis said on the air that he'd hire UCF's QB as an intern for $100k if it was legal, so he could play at UT for Heupel. There aren't many that will throw around money that way, but they exist. Imagine if T. Boone Pickins were alive in an era where it was legal to pay recruits.

 

That's an extremely profitable business model. What do they sell?

 

All those national tournaments, etc., don't organize themselves. Anyone who ever attended an NAIA tournament appreciated the NCAA.

 

Bless your heart for including the Vols in this list.

 

I just broke out laughing over "bless your heart" because around here -- and probably there -- it's a polite way of saying "That's dumber than a box of rocks."

And it took quite a while for Gwen to understand that "ill at" and "ugly with" meant the same thing but nowhere near their Webster dictionary definitions.