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Vtkey's picture Vtkey
| 9 months 3 weeks # | Bitter: Sr DL James Djonkam and FR DL Keyshawn Burgos are no longer with the football team

The more important point is that the value of a scholarship is not remotely equivalent to the value that P4 football players produce for these hundred-million-dollar money-making operations known as universities.

Actually, that's like saying Amazon employees deserve all the profits of Amazon. This isn't remotely how capitalism works.

In capitalism, the owner gets the profits, and the workers get paid a competitive wage/benefits.

vtnerf's picture vtnerf
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| 9 months 3 weeks # | OT 2025 Golf Thread

The golf ball excuse is the biggest horse crap thing ever from the US. Lowry plays Srixon and Rors plays Taylormade. Don't see them having issues. We seem to generate these little things to match guys, like the both put their left sock on first. The ball doesn't make THAT much of a difference. And after the way we've played, one can definitely say there is ZERO chance it hurts this week.

JoshC's picture JoshC
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| 9 months 3 weeks # | NIL lawyer goes on the attack against VT over redshirts

Again, we don't know what the NIL contract has in it. VT doesn't have to be a party to the contract for the player to possibly have agreed to a stipulation that he remain on the roster for the payments to keep flowing, or to a conduct clause that terminates the agreement immediately in the event that he is kicked off the team. In that scenario the obvious argument would be that he was wrongly removed from the roster and VT should make him whole for the money he lost as a result of that wrong VT did to him.

Yes, this would be IMO shameless and ridiculous. That's never stopped an attorney before and it ain't stopping this one now.

HokieinFLA's picture HokieinFLA
| 9 months 3 weeks # | Bitter: Sr DL James Djonkam and FR DL Keyshawn Burgos are no longer with the football team

The more important point is that the value of a scholarship is not remotely equivalent to the value that P4 football players produce for these hundred-million-dollar money-making operations known as universities.

This is a completely unsupportable statement IMO.

First, there is no clear data on how much actual profit individual University Athletic Depts. are making year over year in profit (at least not publicly available). According to OSU's AD they lost money in 2024.

https://www.thelantern.com/2025/01/ohio-state-athletics-claims-37-7-million-deficit-in-monday-ncaa-report/

So if the National Champion who is in one of the two conferences that actually do have highly lucrative TV contracts is not making money...exactly who is???

Moreover, you use very broad brush-strokes in referring to universities as hundred-million dollar making operations. The B1G and SEC have extremely generous TV contracts which clearly have put their schools ahead in most revenue sports. But what about the other conferences??? We know the ACC doesn't have nearly as attractive of a package. How about the Mountain West? or the MAC? Can we really conclude that because Alabama generates huge amounts of revenue that so does Ball State? That secretly Ball State has millions upon millions hidden away somewhere that they have been hiding from Athletes for years?

Beyond that, even if there is actual profit earned how does one calculate the individual value of each athlete? I think certainly one has to concede that some athletes produce a significant amount of revenue, but the vast majority produce minor amounts or none.

What we do know is that the Social Security Administration estimates that the median increase in lifetime earnings for a male with a Bachelor's degree is $900k. Let's take that number and add that to the cost of a full scholarship (we will use a very conservative estimate of $300k). That's $1.2 million.

You are asserting that all 105 members of a division 1 college football team create revenue of greater than $1.2 million? And not really just $1.2 million...actually a much larger number thats not remotely equivalent to that???

If you have any substantiated resource to back up that claim, I'd love to see it. Until then, I will call this statement utter hyperbole.

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