Coach Gilmore's Parting Words

[CajunT]

I disagree with the premise that pro teams spend the way he says.
Pro teams seem way more budget oriented, more with less attitude than college. And fans complain about price increases way more in pro

He's correct on the Top franchises having the money because they are in the Largest Markets. The Dodgers, Yankees, Boston buy championship teams today. Unlimited free agency would mean those franchises would remain at the top yearly.

[CajunT]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...s/73139425007/

And that’s with huge penalties for going over the soft cap

Unless you can defer compensation, right?

[sportsfanatic21]

Unless you can defer compensation, right?

Those are actual liabilities. The deferred money will show up in the years they have been deferred to.

Example, Shohei is making just a few million each year (and what’s counted now) for the next 10 years. And then will be paid $68 million a year from 2034 through 2043, which will be part of their yearly payroll number that will count towards the cap in those seasons.

So yes, the Dodgers are circumventing the luxury tax. The top 4 are not. And the more you go over, the higher the tax rate.

If it was a free for all, like college baseball would be in Gilmore’s example, those constraints wouldn’t be there and the difference between the haves and the have nots would be even greater

[ZoomZoom]

Robe, Berry, Gilmore. Three solid men where baseball wasn’t the top priority. All the more reason I see Deggs staying here long term. He can be the next man up for the SBC.

[R1Letterman]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...s/73139425007/

And that’s with huge penalties for going over the soft cap

There was no cap for over 150 years and you need to divide those salaries over 10 years, college nil cant even guarentee you one full season

[sportsfanatic21]

There was no cap for over 150 years and you need to divide those salaries over 10 years, college nil cant even guarentee you one full season

There was no cap. They instituted one because a few teams were buying all the players. Doesn’t guarantee success, but it certainly helps.

And those salaries listed are for THIS season. Not divided over 10 years. Some teams over $300 million. Others under $85 mil

And that’s a 30 team league where all of the owners are billionaires.

College has 300 schools and about 40 “billionaires” competing with 200 teams on welfare.

[R1Letterman]

There was no cap. They instituted one because a few teams were buying all the players. Doesn’t guarantee success, but it certainly helps.

And those salaries listed are for THIS season. Not divided over 10 years. Some teams over $300 million. Others under $85 mil

And that’s a 30 team league where all of the owners are billionaires.

College has 300 schools and about 40 “billionaires” competing with 200 teams on welfare.

I reallt cant believe that i keep forgetting that every single post has to be an argunent, oh well, it wasnt my intent. But anyhoo...
I like your 3rd and 4th sentence.

as far as ohtani: Instead of receiving $70 million per year for the next 10 seasons, All-Star hitter and pitcher will reportedly only collect $2 million annually over that span, according to The Athletic. Starting in 2034 — when he will be 39 years old — and going until 2043, Ohtani will receive $68 million per year.Dec 12, 2023

Also profits and losses can be found for most pro teams, not every pro teams spends every penny of revenue each year the way the colleges do (and most more)

[DannyP]

You are hard to follow.
It sounds like you are in favor of unlimited nil $; and that’s the best path to a fair playing field in college athletics

[CajunVic]

the Supreme Court has already ruled that players rights to earn NIL shall not be abridged

so, by the rule of the highest court in the land, it’s unlimited

[Turbine]

the Supreme Court has already ruled that players rights to earn NIL shall not be abridged

so, by the rule of the highest court in the land, it’s unlimited

Yet elsewhere, minimum wage guidelines still stand.

[CajunVic]

Yet elsewhere, minimum wage guidelines still stand.

that is the opposite side of the coin . . . it does not abridge