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Parity in College Football

SBP said:
1. They don’t limit coaches pay.

2. I wouldn’t hold pro sports as ANY example of free market principles. They are just another example of government granted monopolies that allow the rich to get richer at the expense of labor
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You changed from "it doesn't happen" to "it shouldn't happen."
 
SBP said:
Pro sports don’t limit coaches pay. That doesn’t happen.

Klatt is suggesting that limiting college coaches pay would bring better parity. That shouldn’t happen
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No, you said we don't limit pay in America. When, in fact, we do. Then, you said we don't limit coaches pay. You're moving the goal posts and making some weird, patriotic argument.

It won't happen in college because, unlike the NFL, the NCAA is a joke and there would be no one to enforce it. If colleges had owners like the NFL, a cap probably would've been done already since it would serve their financial interest.
 
SBP said:
Because when you look at the history of monopolies, most if not all were allowed to develop because government intervention kept competitors from entering the market.

when I was growing up there were only three networks because the FCC only granted three licenses for national broadcasters.

There are a lot more examples but that scenario is playing out even more dramatically now which is why the lobbyist industry has grown so much. R’s and D’s are equally to blame
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Similarly, if you look at the history of Capitalism, far more monopolies were stopped from even happening due to governmental intervention. Perhaps you've heard of DOJ Antitrust review of M&A?
 
Jalapeno said:
www.cbssports.com

NCAA unveils modernized constitution draft with divisions granted increased governing power

Significant changes could come to NCAA governance and enforcement in the new constitution
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com

Divisions and conferences will be more responsible for enforcing an equal playing field within their division/conference.

I don't want to think what CU and the Pac-12 would want to do when it comes to football.
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I don't think enough attention is being paid to this news (unless i missed it in another thread).

This is going to change everything for FBS.

And, I agree with @Not Sure , if there's a coaches salary cap it needs to come at the conference level.
 
leftybuff said:
Am i the only one who reads the thread title as Party in College Football?
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More pressing to me is all this insane “dead money” that schools are on the hook for. I’m not thrilled that a public employee coaching sports makes close to 8 figures in the first place but at least that can theoretically be justified by the programs revenue. What’s extremely upsetting is seeing all these public universities owe tens of millions of dollars to athletic coaches who are no longer even working, often due to underperforming. Please fix that first. That should not exist in “amateur” athletics.
 
Kuratz said:
More pressing to me is all this insane “dead money” that schools are on the hook for. I’m not thrilled that a public employee coaching sports makes close to 8 figures in the first place but at least that can theoretically be justified by the programs revenue. What’s extremely upsetting is seeing all these public universities owe tens of millions of dollars to athletic coaches who are no longer even working, often due to underperforming. Please fix that first. That should not exist in “amateur” athletics.
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I think your comment about finding a new hobby is probably the right answer for me.
 
ColonelCurtisPTwatwaffle said:
I think your comment about finding a new hobby is probably the right answer for me.
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It is for me. I am letting my tickets go after this year.

Neu was right when he called us a “have not”. We just couldn’t believe or admit it then.

GB returned us to some level of respectability but all that did was delay the inevitable.

It has been basically 20 years of irrelevance and no signs that CU can fix the issue or even wants to. The fact that parity rules might be our only hope at having some competitive seasons says a lot.
 
I have liked this idea in principle for a while, but I fear it would be impossible to enforce. Are you going to include endorsement and “consulting” pay? The Sabans of the world would just get most of their money in creative ways and the end result would most likely be to (further) separate programs willing to skirt the rules from those that don’t.
 
skibum said:
I would cap the entire budget for football operations, including salaries.

Maybe make some well defined adjustments for cost of living and travel expense differences.
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I’d adjust this slightly to be a per athlete limit across all sports. That would lead to increased sports being offered, in theory anyway. It would also lead to parity in other sports like basketball.
 
SBP said:
1. They don’t limit coaches pay.

2. I wouldn’t hold pro sports as ANY example of free market principles. They are just another example of government granted monopolies that allow the rich to get richer at the expense of labor
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Uh, don’t the “labor” in pro sports get rich too?
 
hokiehead said:
I don't think enough attention is being paid to this news (unless i missed it in another thread).

This is going to change everything for FBS.

And, I agree with @Not Sure , if there's a coaches salary cap it needs to come at the conference level.
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Didn't see any thread with that so I posted it here.

I agree it will be the biggest change since the supreme court rulings that allowed more CFB games to be on television. More realignment is likely.
 
I don't see a salary pool working or creating parity. The NFL model is the best at creating parity but they have strong revenue sharing. Without a balanced revenue sharing, a fixed salary pool is will be inequitable to many programs. I doubt it would be legal. Fixing salaries or wages has be to usually negotiated through collective bargaining.
 
SBP said:
Pat Bowlen Paid 78 million for the Broncos and the team is going to sell for close to 4 BILLION dollars.

How rich did the players get?
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I just feel like your entire premise is "America was built on Capitalistic ideas (hint: it wasn't) and therefore that's how sports entertainment should also be run" and I don't understand that. I want sports to be run the best way possible in order to entertain ME and provide the most competitive balance possible
 
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