Grasp the Difference

[Arkstfan]

So, university presidents are okay with being a farm system for the NFL? The woke professors are going to look the other way? The researchers are going to be okay with this?

Let’s be real. Professors “woke” or not have known for decades that college athletics are not run like a business.

A business returns investment to the owners in the form of dividends or pays the parent company fees the use of the owners intellectual property (name and logos) or pay the owner for use of its real estate and buildings and personal property.

Owners eventually take capital gains selling the business in whole or in part.

College athletics are more like a cancerous tumor, a clump of cells that grow unrestrained consuming everything it can.

[moorecajun]

"College athletics are more like a cancerous tumor, a clump of cells that grow unrestrained consuming everything it can."

Man, that is exactly what it feels like to me. I'm not sure if there is any chemotherapy available either.

[R1Letterman]

I appreciate the breakdown of the salary structure...

However when pro athletes first started getting paid, it was not to satisfy a redistribution of owner's wealth, but rather to keep the best players willing to join the profession and not lose them to other higher paying career fields....

Fast forward to today if you cut the salary in half of a player making 15 million to just 7.5 would you really risk losing them to another career option, and/or are there not others willing to step in (without that much of a drop off in talent) for a much lower cost.