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Colorado sent $1 million in mascot money to Jadeveon Clowney while recruiting him​


"All the best universities — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana State — wrote regularly. Colorado wrote the most, even sent a box of fake money — total pretend value $1 million — with the team’s mascot, a Buffalo, in place of the usual picture of a president. Harvard, oddly, corresponded."



Why doesn't the collective create a Cryptocurrency with an LP of $10-$25M, and have it be distributed to our athletes. Can even set the smart contracts to pay out bi-weekly and could even have vested interest for different things.
 
FLounder said:

Colorado sent $1 million in mascot money to Jadeveon Clowney while recruiting him​


"All the best universities — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana State — wrote regularly. Colorado wrote the most, even sent a box of fake money — total pretend value $1 million — with the team’s mascot, a Buffalo, in place of the usual picture of a president. Harvard, oddly, corresponded."



Why doesn't the collective create a Cryptocurrency with an LP of $10-$25M, and have it be distributed to our athletes. Can even set the smart contracts to pay out bi-weekly and could even have vested interest for different things.
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Because we prefer athletes who are not morons.
 
Buffnik said:
It depends on what the capitalistic driver is.

If we see every athletic department as an independent actor competing for resources and revenue in the college sports space, then forming cooperatives (NCAA, conferences) are socialistic measures.

If we see college sports as competing as an entity to attract as much of the sports entertainment dollar as possible, then forming cooperatives to best position and grow the college football brand is not socialistic any more than P&G will pool resources to muscle market and doesn't care whether you buy Tide, Cheer or Gain as long as P&G is growing its market share and revenue in the laundry products category.

Therefore, from a business standpoint I don't see American sports leagues as socialistic. I think people misunderstand the nature of their business.
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Agreed. The NFL has socialistic rules in place with the most Capitalistic intentions in mind.

I have fully admitted in the past I am in favor of more team and league friendly rules when it comes to labor because that’s what drives competitive balance and makes the sport popular and worth watching. My CFB team being a farm team for big programs doesn’t interest me and kills my give-a-**** for the sport.

This doesn’t mean I am in favor of Socialism as a broad political and economic system. If that makes me a hypocrite, then OK, but I like to think there is nuance in this discussion.
 
Buffnik said:
It depends on what the capitalistic driver is.

If we see every athletic department as an independent actor competing for resources and revenue in the college sports space, then forming cooperatives (NCAA, conferences) are socialistic measures.

If we see college sports as competing as an entity to attract as much of the sports entertainment dollar as possible, then forming cooperatives to best position and grow the college football brand is not socialistic any more than P&G will pool resources to muscle market and doesn't care whether you buy Tide, Cheer or Gain as long as P&G is growing its market share and revenue in the laundry products category.

Therefore, from a business standpoint I don't see American sports leagues as socialistic. I think people misunderstand the nature of their business.
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The NFL meets the definition of a cartel.
 
Creebuzz said:
I think implementing a framework that allows the players a bigger slice of the pie while also providing a degree of stability and competitive balance for the schools would be good for everyone.

I’ve read that the mean average NIL deal was $471 per month, but heavily skewed at the top. The median was $35/month. I’ve also read that some NIL deals have not been honored. There are no standards in contracts and generally no representation for the athletes. At the same time, free agency also imposes downside risks for the players. You see more getting cut (effectively) from rosters, and many not finding a landing spot after entering the portal. It will be really interesting to read the studies a few years from now. I suspect that we will find that NIL was great for a small group of players at the top, but ultimately bad for more players at the bottom. I also suspect that negative impacts to competitive balance will actually shrink the revenue pie in the future, which will also ultimately affect the players. However, there are so many variables at play, it’s hard to predict how things will truly evolve.
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There are many difficult lessons for sure. My issue is this: the sport for too long paid nearly all of its bounty to the folks not doing the playing. That had to change. Creating a new system wherein formerly disenfranchised parties now have more rights will be rocky for many since they are inexperienced participants in an unregulated market. What we’ll likely find out is that not every school will be a player and that not every player is as good as he thought he was.
 
manhattanbuff said:
There are many difficult lessons for sure. My issue is this: the sport for too long paid nearly all of its bounty to the folks not doing the playing. That had to change. Creating a new system wherein formerly disenfranchised parties now have more rights will be rocky for many since they are inexperienced participants in an unregulated market. What we’ll likely find out is that not every school will be a player and that not every player is as good as he thought he was.
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This is about as well written and succinct of a paragraph as you will ever read on Allbuffs. And I completely agree.
 
Buffnik said:
It depends on what the capitalistic driver is.

If we see every athletic department as an independent actor competing for resources and revenue in the college sports space, then forming cooperatives (NCAA, conferences) are socialistic measures.

If we see college sports as competing as an entity to attract as much of the sports entertainment dollar as possible, then forming cooperatives to best position and grow the college football brand is not socialistic any more than P&G will pool resources to muscle market and doesn't care whether you buy Tide, Cheer or Gain as long as P&G is growing its market share and revenue in the laundry products category.

Therefore, from a business standpoint I don't see American sports leagues as socialistic. I think people misunderstand the nature of their business.
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meh. Oligopolies are neither the best nor most pure representation of capitalism - although they are decidedly the most american representation of capitalism. I honestly have a hard time saying oligopolistic capitalism is "better" than democratic socialism. Capitalism without oligopolies is probably better than both, but we don't live in that world (and I have a hard time believing that such a world is even possible - empirically, so far I'm right).
 
skibum said:
meh. Oligopolies are neither the best nor most pure representation of capitalism - although they are decidedly the most american representation of capitalism. I honestly have a hard time saying oligopolistic capitalism is "better" than democratic socialism. Capitalism without oligopolies is probably better than both, but we don't live in that world (and I have a hard time believing that such a world is even possible - empirically, so far I'm right).
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I'm not looking for pure capitalism. I don't agree with it. Particularly for a group of non-profit entities trying to maximize educational opportunities through the revenues and promotional reach of their athletic departments.
 
“Pure” capitalism and sports leagues are incompatible. Whether that is a professional sports league or “amateur”. The very thing that attracts people to sports is their competitive nature. In order to ensure that competitive balance, artificial constraints have to be implemented in order to keep one set of teams from getting too strong. Sorry to point out the obvious, but we are already at the point in college athletics where there’s very little competitive balance. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Nobody is begrudging the players earning something from their name, image and likeness, but you can’t deny it’s had a very negative impact on the overall competitive landscape. It’s making college athletics less interesting and I don’t see many alternatives that can be implemented to restore that balance.
 
Watching a program like A&M spend all that money on the stadium, coach, NIL, etc and drop to 3-4 on the season makes me smile.

Also, remaining schedule of Ole Miss, Florida, @Auburn, UMASS, and LSU and them needing to win 2 of those 4 SEC games (assuming they beat UMASS) just to be bowl eligible is going to be fun
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Watching a program like A&M spend all that money on the stadium, coach, NIL, etc and drop to 3-4 on the season makes me smile.

Also, remaining schedule of Ole Miss, Florida, @Auburn, UMASS, and LSU and them needing to win 2 of those 4 SEC games (assuming they beat UMASS) just to be bowl eligible is going to be fun
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A School who reportedly paid 25 million to their last recruiting class and then misses a bowl game would be absolutely amazing.
 
A&M boosters:

The Simpsons Gun GIF
 
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