slick1ru2 Posted June 20, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 553 Content Count: 14,405 Reputation: 434 Days Won: 13 Joined: 07/25/2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 See what happens at a mid-major when your teams start winning? There needs to be caps on salaries for ADs, coaches, etc..http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/sports/college/oregon-state/2015/06/18/stansbury-named-new-athletic-director-oregon-state/28932565/ Well DUH! That's how business works ... Treating college football like the NFL, a business, has helped ruin it IMO. It's now haves vs have nots in terms of cash. Btw, no other country in the world has monetized a college sport like has been done to football. You're right. In Japan, they do it in high school for baseball. And you're always bringing up this romanticized notion of college football when you've never seen a single down in your entire life where the game was just a game. Let it go. The haves and have nots have been going at it since the 19th century when Yale was already charging it's students a fee to pay for football. They turned high school baseball into a multi-billion dollar industry with gigantic TV contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars? Riiiight And its not a romanticized version, its the actual HISTORY of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTrue Posted June 20, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 152 Content Count: 19,395 Reputation: 6,097 Days Won: 233 Joined: 01/13/2011 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) See what happens at a mid-major when your teams start winning? There needs to be caps on salaries for ADs, coaches, etc..http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/sports/college/oregon-state/2015/06/18/stansbury-named-new-athletic-director-oregon-state/28932565/Well DUH! That's how business works ...Treating college football like the NFL, a business, has helped ruin it IMO. It's now haves vs have nots in terms of cash. Btw, no other country in the world has monetized a college sport like has been done to football.You're right. In Japan, they do it in high school for baseball. And you're always bringing up this romanticized notion of college football when you've never seen a single down in your entire life where the game was just a game. Let it go. The haves and have nots have been going at it since the 19th century when Yale was already charging it's students a fee to pay for football.They turned high school baseball into a multi-billion dollar industry with gigantic TV contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars? Riiiight And its not a romanticized version, its the actual HISTORY of the game.My apologies, I forgot you were looking for an absolute exact parallel. Not an example of how a high school baseball tournament is a billion dollar production in Japan that rivals March Madness. Or that the reason there's no college soccer around the world is because professional teams have spent so much money, they have made the sport completely obsolete at that level by buying kids out before they even get there through budgets at their academies for 12 year olds that would rival the SEC. Lionel Messi was bought by Barcelona when he was 11 since they were willing to pay for his growth hormone therapy and his local team in Argentina wouldn't. You said no one else in the world does to their sports what we do to ours? You're right. It's worse in many places. And you're right, money in college football is the history of the game. The entire history going back well over 100 years. Edited June 20, 2015 by JTrue 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great 8 Posted June 22, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 69 Content Count: 3,802 Reputation: 372 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/21/2009 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Baseball and soccer are great analogs for what slick is talking about, IMO. Good job. You won't find a perfect parallel because the closest is soccer and they've just effectively killed the college circuit. The rest are do not have the market size of American Football. Obviously Japanese Baseball isn't going to be as popular. There's a lot less eye balls. I bet if you do it per capita, it's fairly close, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogma Posted June 23, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 303 Content Count: 5,550 Reputation: 866 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/07/2009 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Andrea Adelson â€@aadelsonESPN 8m8 minutes ago UCF has named an interim athletics director: head football coach George O'Leary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaUSFBull Posted June 23, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 263 Content Count: 24,750 Reputation: 3,107 Days Won: 87 Joined: 12/15/2009 Share Posted June 23, 2015 See what happens at a mid-major when your teams start winning? There needs to be caps on salaries for ADs, coaches, etc..http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/sports/college/oregon-state/2015/06/18/stansbury-named-new-athletic-director-oregon-state/28932565/ Well DUH! That's how business works ... Treating college football like the NFL, a business, has helped ruin it IMO. It's now haves vs have nots in terms of cash. Btw, no other country in the world has monetized a college sport like has been done to football. You're right. In Japan, they do it in high school for baseball. And you're always bringing up this romanticized notion of college football when you've never seen a single down in your entire life where the game was just a game. Let it go. The haves and have nots have been going at it since the 19th century when Yale was already charging it's students a fee to pay for football. They turned high school baseball into a multi-billion dollar industry with gigantic TV contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars? Riiiight And its not a romanticized version, its the actual HISTORY of the game. My apologies, I forgot you were looking for an absolute exact parallel. Not an example of how a high school baseball tournament is a billion dollar production in Japan that rivals March Madness. Or that the reason there's no college soccer around the world is because professional teams have spent so much money, they have made the sport completely obsolete at that level by buying kids out before they even get there through budgets at their academies for 12 year olds that would rival the SEC. Lionel Messi was bought by Barcelona when he was 11 since they were willing to pay for his growth hormone therapy and his local team in Argentina wouldn't. You said no one else in the world does to their sports what we do to ours? You're right. It's worse in many places. And you're right, money in college football is the history of the game. The entire history going back well over 100 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2000bull Posted June 23, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 83 Content Count: 7,039 Reputation: 633 Days Won: 11 Joined: 06/04/2009 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Andrea Adelson â€@aadelsonESPN 8m8 minutes ago UCF has named an interim athletics director: head football coach George O'Leary. so is he the most powerful man in the building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 23, 2015 Group: Admin Topic Count: 13,332 Content Count: 97,003 Reputation: 10,809 Days Won: 469 Joined: 05/19/2000 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Andrea Adelson â€@aadelsonESPN 8m8 minutes ago UCF has named an interim athletics director: head football coach George O'Leary. What could go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple B Posted June 23, 2015 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,612 Content Count: 74,539 Reputation: 10,818 Days Won: 423 Joined: 11/25/2005 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Andrea Adelson â€@aadelsonESPN 8m8 minutes ago UCF has named an interim athletics director: head football coach George O'Leary. so is he the most powerful man in the building? If the building is the indoor practice facility, the answer is yes .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apis Bull Posted June 23, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,586 Content Count: 23,185 Reputation: 2,332 Days Won: 65 Joined: 09/05/2002 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Andrea Adelson â€@aadelsonESPN 8m8 minutes ago UCF has named an interim athletics director: head football coach George O'Leary. This might be O'Leay's coaching exit strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaUSFBull Posted June 23, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 263 Content Count: 24,750 Reputation: 3,107 Days Won: 87 Joined: 12/15/2009 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Andrea Adelson â€@aadelsonESPN 8m8 minutes ago UCF has named an interim athletics director: head football coach George O'Leary. What could go wrong? Player deaths could happen in multiple sports ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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