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I have no idea what you're doing, but you're doing it correctly.
air is good for breathing
Tell that to Beijing!
according to Forbes, 20 of the top 50 most valuable sports teams in the world are NFL teams (including the Green Bay Packers). My point is that if we're going to blame the owners or players for the rising prices, I am going to blame the owners, since they're not the ones we pay to watch. My other point is I have a hard time feeling bad for any owners or believing they all of a sudden have to cut back on private jet use because of the rise in salary cap.
Unpopular opinion: I actually really like Nick Saban. I think he's a pretty upstanding guy.
I personally don't give a shit. If I was 20 years old and my parents weren't able to pay the electricity bill, I would have done the same thing,
I'll put it this way- I had a friend of mine work at the Chick-Fil-A in Ho Grille. When Darren Evans came buy, my friend would always give him a TON of free food because he knew he used that food to help feed his family. My friend never felt bad about it and I'm sure Evans didn't give two fucks about breaking an "NCAA violation" because making sure his kid had something to eat was far more important.
And here I thought for sure that he would've been the first to go.
The NCAA doesn't make that much off of football. In 2012 the NCAA made $797M of which $702M came from the NCAA basketball tournament TV rights. http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/finances/revenue
Its a farm system where the NFL, NBA, and NCAA win big while forcing kids who are talented enough to turn pro to remain amateurs, unable to collect on their talents, while the organizations themselves profit out the ass. And then, just to provide another kick to the balls of the athletes, after spending their requisite time in college, they enter a draft where, at least in the NFL, you are slotted into a salary not based on your abilities, but by the order in which you are drafted, with no regard to how you slot into the big picture, with the most talented kids getting forced into a salary that you're essentially locked into for 5 years.
Yes, the salary range of a professional player after that entry level contract has earning potential through the roof, but there are so many landmines you must avoid before getting to that point, and the vast majority of players whom these organizations make billions off of are never able to earn a penny.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend Yea but #goacc
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend 
Don't forget Lane Kiffin.
The Packers financial statements which have to be released as they are a public organization lists all of their expenses versus revenues. The Owners make a small profit on that team per year.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend Heck, I drove from Rhode Island to come to Tech. I not only left my state, I also left New England as a whole. If you are bad, I must be evil incarnate.
They all were out shopping for Foxfield during the game
Sorry but i'm not sympathetic at all to any athlete who complains about $$$ they get per contract
All that revenue has to go somewhere. You'd rather it line the pockets of billionaires? Or the players who play the game?
Good friend from high school goes to ole miss, can confirm.
I believe his assault arrest was for beating up his stepfather after witnessing/finding out that he was hitting his mother (hence the lawsuit filed by his stepfather 1 day before the draft).
What was it Sandra Bullock said, you want your LT to be a natural protector?
Granted an assault arrest is an assault arrest, but I don't believe he has a pattern of this type of behavior, and really unless it was a domestic abuse situation he was involved in I don't know if NFL GMs even really care all that much.
The "majority" of NFL players have a career less than 3 years, and for less than $1M. You can't live on $2M from age 24-80, if that's your only income.
And basic economics says that if you suppress the ceiling (salary cap) you are interfering with true market value.
The vast majority of revenue in the NFL is from TV money. Ticket prices are going up because that is one avenue of revenue where the majority goes directly to the team, unlike TV money which must be shared.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend I saw that too but I'm hoping once the dust settles there will be no location restrictions
what are you talking about? Tunsil never complained about losing money. Obviously he did lose a lot but the only people commenting on it really were outsiders saying they feel bad for him.
I am not sure that anybody that makes multi-million dollars per year is playing for less than true market value. The NFL is a non-stop spiral of money. The players want more, so owners need a bigger cap, which means they need to raise ticket prices which all just hurts the fan who wants to go to a game in person.
I am happy that they can make the money they do to play a game that most of us play for free because we love the game. But they are also making a killing. The majority of the NFL players if they watch their money can afford to retire for life by age 30! I will be lucky to retire by 65.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend I thought the ACC was limiting the camps to instate or a certain radius if out of state. My guess is that Charlotte and DC would be no-brainers. I hope that they change it because getting camps other places would be great.
