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Roughly six months into college sports’ new revenue-share era, many of the highest-ranking college administrators are supporting abandoning the roster spending limit.
In an interview earlier this week, Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork said college sports “cannot govern the money any longer” and should consider an unlimited spend. Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua, in an interview last month, said very bluntly, “I think the cap is too low.”
But wouldn’t an uncapped market mean the wealthiest programs in the country would outspend others?
“Aren’t they now?” Radakovich replied. He estimates that an uncapped market would mean football rosters at $35 million-40 million and reaching, in a couple years, the $50 million mark.
“We’ve never been successful to a large extent at legislating competitive equity,” he said.
”To a large extent” is doing some heavy lifting. At some point, all the patches and field logos and corporate sponsors aren’t going to pay for it all. So where will all the money come from?
Yeah, you know where it’ll come from just like I do.
Allen, Branch, Feeling, & Miller were Dawgs early entrants that I am guessing we would have liked to retain.
Do we not pay enough to stay in college or do they think they will go in the 1st round & make more money?
Allen is likely a 1st round pick. Freeling at worst is going early 2nd, and many are saying 1st (saying he could be one of the first 3 OTs off the board). Branch likely got a 2nd round grade (possibly late 1st). Miller had a redshirt 5th year he would return for and a degree in hand (late 1st/early 2nd as well).
Every one of these guys want to get to that 2nd contract as quickly as possible.
If those are correct, you can’t pay them enough to stay.
So we had 5 of the 42 early entrants?
4 unless Greene decided to go
Heard he’s staying.
In 10 years 90,000+ seat stadiums will be a thing of the past and reconfigured to 60k plus more corporate suites. There is only going to be so much demand for a bench seat costing $25,000 per year for 6-7 games. As school revenue increases so does AD pay so don’t expect them to slow this train down.
Considering that the current student section is approximately 16k (based on a quick question to Google) for an enrollment of 40k+, that leaves 60k for a visitor allotment and season tickets. That leaves roughly 17k seats taken away (18%). At an average of 3 seats per ticket holder, Josh Brooks tells approximately 5,600 people that your patronage is appreciated, but please redirect your Hartman contribution to our NIL collective and buy your tickets on the secondary market without dramatic increase in contribution minimums and ticket prices across the board.
The math doesn’t work. Throw in the cost of tearing down the Fech deck and reconfiguring a 90k stadium down to 77k.
If this person doesn’t already exist in college athletics, which institution will publicly brag/boast/showoff about the first nil “10 million dollar qb”…..
Turn your eyes west to Lubbock, TX
Do believe there should be the “oil baron conference”, then all the rest….GO DAWGS!!
Creating more material “premium areas” in Sanford Stadium would require so much money and effort, it is virtually economically unfeasible – I will continue to enjoy the bleachers (hopefully for years to come, although its getting tougher each year….).
This whole thing about capping salaries came unraveled in record time, didn’t it? One thing consistent in human behavior is unregulated institutions guarantee that naked self interest steps to the forefront every time. The problem as this article so eloquently stated is that the money has to come from somewhere. But let’s look deeper. These schools advocating unlimited spending seek to re-establish the establishment, so to speak, in essence making the tournament Indiana-proof.
I love how the solution is to throw your hands up. Shows us how intelligent the AD population is and how we are nowhere near the end of the chaos.
We are in the age of binary choices. Who would have seen pandora’s box leading to this. The only solution set on the table is going to end up with unlimited eligibility and team’s sponsored by higher education institutions. I am not sure there is anyone, regardless of intelligence, who can keep the chaos from occurring.
I don’t think these are binary choices, and there was a decent chance that fifth schools had been better about rev share and transfer rules earlier, there would have been less of a need for a revolution.
Yeah, unlimited salaries because we see how good that works in baseball. Several teams with big pockets continue to buy up all the best talent and everyone else is screwed. Shit lets just see who can get the trophy for pissing away the most money and skip playing football altogether.