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2024 Transfer Portal News - Please Respect My Decision
- Thread starter Buffnik
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When the ADs of these universities are making between $30m-$80m/year just on TV rights, + another $20-$30m/year net revenue from tickets, merch, F&B, etc. a feel good college degree (a monetary value over 4 years of maybe $300k) is simply not enough for the people who produce the product that brings in that money.
It’s actually insane that players aren’t employees at this point, getting paid salaries directly from their university.
It’s actually insane that players aren’t employees at this point, getting paid salaries directly from their university.
Hmm. The last time I saw a CU budget, revenue was approximately equal to expenses. Many schools are at negative revenue. But they’re probably lying.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
If that happens, kill the sport with fire. I will never be on board with that.
Fair. I was talking about football only.
FY 2022, Football had Revenues at almost $50m with expenses around $25.5m so a net revenue of around $23m. MBB had $1.5m in net revenues. Everything else was at a loss.
I can’t even imagine what footballs net revenue is going to be for FY 2023.
2022 NCAA Financial Report - University of Colorado Athletics
2022 NCAA Financial Report
On board with players being paid commensurate with the revenue they generate for their universities? Why?
Well, which non revenue sports shall we axe? How do you divvy up all the revenue to all the universities and all of their players. Or do only the revenue sports athletes get paid?
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Oh and this was the old Pac 12 media deal, before the $30m/year tv revenue that CU will start receiving next year.Fair. I was talking about football only.
FY 2022, Football had Revenues at almost $50m with expenses around $25.5m so a net revenue of around $23m. MBB had $1.5m in net revenues. Everything else was at a loss.
I can’t even imagine what footballs net revenue is going to be for FY 2023.
2022 NCAA Financial Report - University of Colorado Athletics
2022 NCAA Financial Reportcubuffs.com
No! Not the golf team!!
Why should non revenue generating athletes get paid?
Oklahoma State CB. Looks like he just finished his RS FR season so 3 to play 3? Seemingly viewed as a promising up and comer for the Pokes
Oklahoma State Corner D.J. McKinney Reportedly Enters Transfer Portal
McKinney allowed only 22 catches on 49 targets as a redshirt freshman.
pistolsfiringblog.com
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
This isn't pro sports. Nearly everything that made college football great and different from the NFL has largely already been ruined.
Making the players paid employees will just kill off anything remaining that made the sport great and unique.
I don't watch college ball for the quality of the play on the field. I watch for the pageantry, passion, genuine vitriol for your rivals, developing a rooting interest in YOUR players for 3-5 years.
What's the point of college ball when all that stuff s gone and the players are barely even students with a loose affiliation to the university?
Just start a dedicated minor league system at that point.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Hell...let's just have NFL teams have a special draft for high school players then call the colleges their minor league affiliates or say, so and so, the QB for Alabama has his draft rights owned by the Atlanta Falcons?
I mean, if you’re still paying attention to CFB today, I’m not sure what the difference is. Everything you named is essentially gone. College football as you know it is and has been gone for a couple years now.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Paying attention and caring are different things. I used to watch 12 hours of football every Saturday during the fall...
Now, I watch Colorado games and snippets of other highlights.
Aside from the Bana-Michigan game, I haven't watched any post season football this year.
A couple? LMAO
Ok, so if players start getting paid commensurate with the value they bring the networks and ADs, you’ll just pay attention less?
I kind of put the line of demarcation on this subject at the start of NIL and Transfer Portal. So maybe more than two, but less than five. Before then, at least you still had a semblance of connection to players on the roster and a bit more tradition and pageantry.
Perhaps the formation of the 4 team playoff was really the beginning of the end
Major conference realignment kicked off well before the four team playoff.
I don’t disagree, at all. One of the lesser mentioned flaws in the transfer portal is the “free agency”/mercenary feel of bringing in players for a year (sometimes less) or so.
They’ll always be a connection to a team in “your team’s” uniform, but that old-school connection to players that have grown up in those uniforms is pretty much gone.
That had been a bigger part of my enjoyment of CF than I had realized until recently, and one of the things I enjoyed about CF over the NFL. I also liked all the different schemes and odd offensives, as NFL teams are such carbon copies of each other schematically: one team comes up with something, the next year everyone is using it. I think even the scheme thing will change, as you have to be able to plug and play players quickly. No building a line that understands option concepts, anymore.
I don’t believe major conference realignment back in say 2011 eliminated most of what Medford mentioned
I do. A lot of what he talks about is from the days of college football being regional (in the best ways).
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
I'll stop watching entirely. I have the NFL if I want to watch pro football.
Eh, I think there was some loss of some rivalries (CU/NU, NU/OU, UT, aTm), but bowls still mattered. Most traditions and rivalries were in tact. You felt connection with players at your school and you knew most of the roster every year.
I think transfer portal and NIL is what mostly killed the sport *as we knew it*, IMO, but your point is taken.
I can look past NIL. The transfer portal, for as much as CU has benefitted under Prime, killed college football as we knew it.
It needed to die.