re: Out of state tuition and room and board is about 50k per year

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Ohio State made the most profit last season, it cost over 225mil in operating costs to make just over 251mil.

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Ohio State, like everyone else, is a nonprofit. Per their NCAA financial report, they generated $279.5 million in revenue and had $274.9 million in operating costs, for a revenue surplus of $4.6 million. That surplus revenue is not “profit.” Over the long run the net revenue surplus will be zero, either because they reinvest the money into the program/institution or because of shortfalls in subsequent years. And as it turns out, Ohio State has reported that they expect a $10 million shortfall this year.

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Those are not great margins relatively speaking and that profit has to fund every other program minus basketball which pulls in around 2mil.

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Again, they don’t have profit. And their operating expenses already include the cost of running the rest of their sports programs. According to their financial report, their football revenue was $114.2 million compared to $72.4 million in football expenses.

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They can’t afford a 105 man football roster all getting paid the way they already are.

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They can’t afford it right now because, as non-profits, they’re sinking all of their revenue into other stuff. That will change.

As I said, the net surplus will be zero over the long term. They are going to spend the money somewhere. The increasing revenue has driven up coaching salaries, AD salaries, facilities investments, recruiting budgets, etc. because there are only so many places to put the money that actually help you compete.

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Your NFL comparison is irrelevant, it’s a totally different economic structure.

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You’re the one who compared it to other businesses. I compared it to the single business that is closest in structure, and now it’s “totally different”? OK.

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I already said we overpay

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And as I illustrated, by the metrics that you picked to justify coaching salaries, we pay just as much as everyone else. So if we overpay, everyone does.

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you’re misrepresenting the money

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I’m not misrepresenting anything. You just don’t understand it.

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You can’t be serious? Read what you just posted again.

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Is that not what you said? I’m asking for clarification. Are you saying that donations to the university from events like homecoming is what pays the players?

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No

He’s very limited

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Are you saying Brian Kelly and the majority of D1 coaches aren’t competent?

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Name the majority of players that are getting paid by YouTube and instagram regularly? You can’t so don’t say it as fact.

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Who would be the ruling party in your scenario?

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Hopefully the NCAA grows some balls and pushes gov’t

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So it shouldn’t be equivalent to NFL players and coaches contracts? Because you said it should.

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The incentive portion yes. Are you a mockingbird?

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Uh the fact that their future career relies on how they play?

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Money will make you lazy and that’s the issue. Like 70-80% of pro athletes are bankrupt within 3 years of retirement. Why is that?

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You just named two players that played 10+ years in the NFL.

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Yea the points keep going way over your head. It’s actually amazing

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I don’t care. It’s not my job to police people that make a lot of money.

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So now you don’t want to answer for the byproduct of this bs?

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Name the majority of players that are getting paid by YouTube and instagram regularly? You can’t so don’t say it as fact.

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Literally any player that posts an ad on Instagram. Every team has several.

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Hopefully the NCAA grows some balls and pushes gov’t

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Your hope is that the NCAA bullies the government? Good luck with that.

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The incentive portion yes. Are you a mockingbird?

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You said the contracts should be equivalent and now you are saying they should only be partially similar, when in reality what you are describing is not similar to a NFL players or coaches contract at all.

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Money will make you lazy and that’s the issue. Like 70-80% of pro athletes are bankrupt within 3 years of retirement. Why is that?

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So what? It's not anyone's job to limit people's incomes because they might get lazy or spend their money improperly.

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So now you don’t want to answer for the byproduct of this bs?

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You are talking about how people spend their money. Whether or not people waste their money or put it in a savings account is none of my business.

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Factually incorrect

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Feel free to point out what specifically you think is “factually incorrect.”

Your theories on how much money football programs pull in. There’s an actual account you can find online but instead you used some kind of gorilla math to increase by 20x what it really is. Here are the actual numbers from last seasons top 25 programs.


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