Grasp the Difference

[CajunJack55]

Joe Burrow

Interesting example...

[UL_Cajuns]

It is too high, since his compatriots in his generation dont want any indebtedness or to have mistakes held against them why should they receive lifelong windfalls for a few months of "good work"

As long as people are still willing to pay the ticket prices, concessions, TV subscriptions, buy the fan gear to support the "MARKET" then they will continue to make a large sum of monies to play a game.

[R1Letterman]

As long as people are still willing to pay the ticket prices, concessions, TV subscriptions, buy the fan gear to support the "MARKET" then they will continue to make a large sum of monies to play a game.

True... but the money sort of does "chase"...
There is no proof people paying last year agreed with the money towards a new draft pick, if the money "dried up" lets say in 2026, it would be too late to attribute that to poor moves made in 2023 and earlier. So they would come up with a different excuse, or it rights itself because they do like the moves made in 2024 or 2025 and we would never know

[Duggie35]

Under this logic, it also makes no logical sense for Joe Burrow to get paid $55 million per year ($150,684 per day/$104.64 per minute). Is it a crazy amount of money? Sure, but the market dictates what the job is worth, regardless of where it falls in the percentage of US wage earners.

I agree, the market will always dictate a jobs worth and that won't change. But just think about it, a football coach is a football coach, regardless of location. The expectations of a coach at a FCS school are virtually the same as at a P4 school (he must win games at a high percentage). The job is the same, the resources of the employer is what makes the difference.

[R1Letterman]

I agree, the market will always dictate a jobs worth and that won't change. But just think about it, a football coach is a football coach, regardless of location. The expectations of a coach at a FCS school are virtually the same as at a P4 school (he must win games at a high percentage). The job is the same, the resources of the employer is what makes the difference.

Students playing for a coach on the FCS team probably need better results in the classroom than with the p4

[Arkstfan]

NFL, NBA, and NHL salaries make perfect sense.

The salary structure of their collective bargaining agreements allocates a specific percentage of specific revenue streams for player compensation.

Joe Burrow gets what he gets because the team is obligated to spend at least a specific amount on salaries as long as certain minimum pay is met. He gets what he gets because the team elected to allocate that much of the salary pool to get him.

College coaching staffs there is no mandate to spend at least this much of revenue or no more than this much of revenue. Dabo gets a much bigger piece of Clemson revenue than Saban gets of Bama revenue.

[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.