The SEC has been paying their athletes under the table for the last 15-20 years. If you think all of those 5-star black athletes were lining up to play in small-town deep-south universities for any reason other than money, you're delusional.
Same. This is why I don't ever seeing this happening. These programs live off of 30-50% of revenues come from donations. Nobody is going to donate to a for-profit corporation.
But NIL is constitutional, it doesn't matter what sports fans think. What the NCAA did was unconstitutional. The NCAA lost their case in front of the Supreme Court 9-0.
@@xuimod The courts got this wrong. These athletes are students who are getting rewarded with very valuable scholarships, a place to stay, food and even getting FCOA. Some of the money that gets collected from sales goes to the other sports, and some money from D1 do help trickle down to sponsor championship in sports in D2 and 3 that P4 recruit for transfer out of them.
@@xuimod It is constitutional - but that doesn't mean that the NCAA can't monitor or regulate it in some way! THis was about paying the players. But football programs always were the financial support for the other sports on campus (not academics like the clueless commentator said) ! The current "free-for-all" that is happening without any regulation is truly destroying the sport. There needs to be contracts in place if one is being paid to play and limitiations on the transfer portal that continue to support the product on the field!
Most of these schools are public universities. I don’t see how state legislatures would allow an equity investment, Title IX notwithstanding. At the same time, funding these programs through the bond market seems highly unlikely. Now for private schools (Notre Dame, Southern Cal, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, U of Miami, etc.), those obstacles may not be present.
It helps when they have 7-8 home football games every year and complain when they 're not picked in the final 12 . Should be the same for every team , 6 home and 6 away . You shouldn't be rewarded with an extra home game just because you have the money to payoff a cupcake .
Keep these vultures out of college sports. These are college sports that are run by government run states which needs to keep the public away from private. We need laws in place to protect the NCAA and schools from being taken to court by the athletes who are already being paid with scholarships, place to live, food and FCOA. The money the schools take in are also being used to help fund the non-revenue sports which to keep the schools in compliance to Title 9. Plus some of the money at D1 is also being used to help fund championships at the D2 and 3 levels which then 75 schools and others also recruit through transfers.
You like the public vultures better than you like the private vultures....for universities. But i am betting you side with the private vultures in your personal investments.
These are universities. No one smart will take what they are offering. If universities need advice on how to produce more revenue on their brands, hiring a consultant is better than selling off a percentage for quick cash. That they'll need to pay back by giving away a percentage of all future earnings. I can only see desperate teams in hopes of jumping a few tiers into the Power 5 would think about entertaining this type of offer. Even that's a stretch. It doesn't make sense mathematically
1. Ohio State University $1.32B $280M Big Ten Columbus, OH public 2. University of Texas at Austin $1.28B $271M SEC Austin, TX public 3. Texas A&M University $1.26B $279M SEC College Station, TX public 4. University of Michigan $1.06B $230M Big Ten Ann Arbor, MI public 5. University of Alabama $978M $200M SEC Tuscaloosa, AL public 6. University of Notre Dame $969M $224M ACC Notre Dame, IN private 7. University of Georgia $950M $210M SEC Athens, GA public 8. University of Nebraska $943M $205M Big Ten Lincoln, NE public 9. University of Tennessee $940M $202M SEC Knoxville, TN public 10. University of Oklahoma
This is akin to purchasing art to burn it, as a proud alum of a Power 5 school, I would be devastated if some PE came in to help “monetize their assets more effectively” if fact the thought makes me nauseous
I read the article only to see how they evaluated the universities. But only desperate teams would entertain this in hopes of elevating their brand to a higher tier. That is... until they have to pay out a percentage of their earnings. Or when they need to get approval from the investors to make certain changes. This is like inviting a middleman between you and your mortgage company, whose fee is only a small percentage for his services. It makes no logical sense.
Colleges should stop athletics programs if this is just about professional sports becoming a part of the institutions. Colleges are to educate. Not to promote professional sports. This is disgusting.
The athletic department is a huge marketer for the university's academic enrollment, brand, etc. It is why school trustees/regents/presidents are so willing to invest and so aggressively into Football and Men's Basketball. Even for schools which offer limited or no athletic scholarships, athletics are used to market students.
@reverend_wintondupree No. The University and the professors that teach classes are what matters. You describing a situation where the athletics tail wags the educational system's dog.
@@KK-pm7ud What I described is exactly the economic environment for universities in how they market themselves, how they recruit students, and how they generate additional revenue today to cover administrative and capital expenses. Whether it's right or wrong does not change the fact universities are dependent on the benefits granted from successful athletic departments. For the most academically prestigious schools, the athletics branding means much less. But for everyone else it is an essential component to undergraduate schools to stand as a differentiator amongst one another when their is a glut of universities to choose from. If anything, athletics may become even more important to universities as the population of college age demographics decrease and the need to cover administrative costs rises. For this relationship to change the entire economic model of universities must change and for that to happen will require a drastic reduction in physical universities within the market and administrative expenses to reduce significantly.
@reverend_wintondupree The economic model of universities does not have to change. They can eliminate college athletics and be just fine. You're just gaslighting.
DUKE and Stanford are two of the Top 5 sports properties (#4 & #2 respectively) in the ACC in terms of both revenue and rank according to these newly released PE valuations. How many folks would have guessed that? Two schools with tiny little undergrad populations, but large endowments and proven track record of excellence. Remember, its not what you or your bias thinks, its what the big money men think, they're the ones who crunched the numbers. 😮
the major schools don't need private equity money, it's the smaller ones that could use it to compete with the bigger ones. I.e. SMU this year is now competing in the playoffs after 40 years of obscurity due to their group of billionaires getting together force-feeding it capital.
So, you want the 500th "least" talented athlete to get part of the money earned by the number 1 "most" talented athlete? Okay...........sit down, Bernie Sanders.
Dear Lord all of this sounds crazy, because alumni business owners are going to buy the rights to these teams. This guy just said that they are looking to buy 2 teams at 51% 😳 Will they then decide who is head coach etc? Wow, this is nuts! Could you imagine schools like USC and Stanford, which have more billionaire alumni than any of these top 5 schools listed combined! Also more national championships, than all of these top 5 schools combined. Who is going to buy the rights to those schools 🤷🏻♂️ NCAA is done and they need to create a governing body for all of this craziness. Hopefully all of the sports that create less revenue will an increase in 💵
@@MSDOGS1976 LOL. I am giving you what their thought process is. As long as you have "some" engagement, they know you are interested. That's an opportunity to put sponsors in your eyes and ears. Dont blame me for understanding how the game works.
@@alta58043 that's a different argument. The Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable franchise in the world ... winning doesn't necessarily have a correlation with value
The guy explaining it is icky. Just sleeze I think any school that gets involved should provide free tuition. After all the main purpose of a college/university is education not athletics.
What a crazy idea. To have investors owning the athletic program. Ok. Agenda item#1, get rid of unprofitable sports, so keep only football and men's basketball. If I were the university, I would sell the majority of the program and then charge a ton of rent, the program would never be profitable and money would always stay with the school.
I see what Becky views as a negative as a big, enormous benefit in making it clear to anyone and everyone what is really going on already and that is most major college sports programs in football and basketball are professional teams with little connection to education. Most of these athletes are there ONLY to play their sport and get drafted into the NFL or NBA. Most see going to class as a major distraction with many not qualified to attend college thereby leading to the corruption of the grading system as we have seen in the past at such schools as the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina. These schools are the ones that got caught. Many more pull these shenanigans. I have seen such maneuvers at a school with well-known sports programs where I was a graduate student. Now, what I see as an even more hopeful development in making what was a farce much more out in the open is the loss of interest in contributing to colleges so that we can boil the colleges down to actually educating the young instead of drawing in young people who care little about education and all about going to games and then to parties. We can hope that these students would cease wasting their and taxpayers' money taking a four year vacation that only breeds STD's, drug addiction, and alcoholism without their having learned the classics and how to reason to an objective truth. The loss of unrestricted donations to the college would force the colleges to showcase their academic accomplishments in order to attract both students and alumni donations. Being an alumnus of a school would be something to brag about based on their school's traditions, academic excellence, and what the school teaches in substance instead of how their pro teams are doing. The moral rot that has taken the Western world can be traced to universities. If donors were more aware of the mindless nihilism that is being taught, when the students are taught at all by professors many of whom do not teach but only do obscure research that no one reads or cares about, then the donors would either demand better teaching that continues the Western Canon or cut off the funding altogether until the traditional mission of colleges is resumed. Postmodernism and Neo-Marxism while discussed and analyzed should not be the foundation of the little education that students receive in colleges today. Then we can talk about defunding research that has re-oriented colleges away from education of the young and into either completely arcane nonsense or very valuable discoveries that should be carried out by think tanks, corporate R&D, and other independent institutions such as Bell Labs with professors only tangentially involved in research with their main focus being teaching. Teaching is much more important since teaching is what continues our inherited wisdom of the past millennia that has characterized Western Civilization.
Mabey becsuse a coming day when this wrecklas money grab puts its sight on notre dame not paying a conference fee but relies on us to fill their bag!! And its as simple as a quick handshake deal amonst a couple of conferences for an agreement to just not agree to any more future matchups!! So what do you figure the irish would do if the day was approaching when they could no longer feature sec or big 10 matchups? Theres only a few options they could cut their tv deal by 80% and play 4 big12 teams evry year. They could also become a finacial dream for group5 by handing them half their scheduels. They could quit playing. Or they could shop the best deal to snuggle in with the best cash offer which logicly would come from the two who forced this joke which convieniantly forces notre dame to terminate its affiliation and filling the bag held by acc which likly would vaporize any threat from the last couple of credible threats in america which will leverage miami and florida st to our doors looking for a deal, and i assume they would leave clemson on their own, in the acc, to watch them wither away on espn 57 while their on espns flagship laughing at them simply as retaliation for that little stunt clemson pulled off 13 years ago when they went renegade on a wreklas rampage and hellbent on getting a large piece of the games largest bag and with complete disregard to for the our deal with league office which already rigged up who would have access to large pieces of the only relevant bag tecnichaly unclaimed until the four teams were named on a 2hour espn megaevent played for leagues mosr cherrished honor to see who ranked #1 . Yet thats a fairy tale the only honor getting into that bag and the biggest cut of it when its chopped up! So this was the most basic of rackets but had a world class return!!! The scam at its core was to convince society, that those the con centered around ,once took a loss, that they were first in line of evey other one loss team in country. And once confident america had zero clue that the product they were buying was a game of shells, they began blatant disregard to appear even credible and saw the iconic michegan vs ohio st matchup as an opportunity to still sell the worlds premier rivalry yet as they looked society in the eye and fed them a line of crap they had already turned this historical matchup into a contest of no more value than a spring warm up!! This joke.got even funnier when anyone with a brain realized they had decided a month ago that their plan was to quietly end the big10 two weeks before the championship as who ever lost the annual classic was provided one of the four most covetted invitations and access to that huge bag, then the winner certainly had zero incentive to win or even play their conference title game, as the league could sell them as winner of that joke a couple weeks ago as both understood the only goal of a tradition like no other was to not get involved in grinder where somebody could get hurt. Yet a week later was a premium matchup for the highest stakes, and the high stakes that society also couldnt see was that this was the first time they were pushed a game that before it kicked off was deemed for bragging rights from an office in a differen time zone aside from the staggering opportunity already given to both programs entirly based on that scrimmage their playing next saturday which also turned the title game in two weeks into a practice drill!!
not really ... it can only happen because others bend over for them ... all it takes is one or two commissioners with a spine to say we're not scheduling Notre Dame and it's over for you
This is a terrible idea. It’s just basically making another NFL where most of the players won’t be making the actual pros. If they make a “super conference” that will alienate all small market teams. Why would someone from New York give a crap about SEC football. They have no connection to the teams. As a college football fan all my life, I personally don’t like the path it’s on now.
@@dredey1971 ok big shot. You’re right I’m not engaging like I used to. They might as well just do a super playoff between the SEC and Big 10 teams at this point.
@@connordonnelly7455 Engagement is your comments about college sports on the internet. It all matters to the money people. And you are still participating which gives them opportunity to put their sponsors in in your eyesight and ear shot. Dont blame me because i know how it works. Still engaging?
it would be different if we were talking on an espn account or a cfp highlight video. This is a cnbc video and I like finance valuations. I know how modern advertising works, I can still love the sport but not like the direction it’s going. Not sure why you waste your time arguing with people for their opinion. I don’t care about the SEC vs Big 10 playoffs every year, but you might and that’s ok.
Why in the hell should taxpayers pay for institutions whose pure purpose is to generate profit? If that's the case, I'd prefer my taxes be invested in an actual investment fund instead of some loser coach like Jimbo Fisher who is the highest paid state employee. Why should an alumni of Auburn pay taxes that goes to the University of Alabama which inevitably budgets it for their football team? The athletics brand and almost every football program including even rich juggernauts like Oregon and Texas exist because of the universities and taxpayers and to support the educational and scholastic missions of these schools. There is no purpose for these programs to exist in a professional private sector market. The point of it this all is not to have a NFL minor league.
Money will destroy college football as you can see in the early stages
😂😂😂ok
The SEC has been paying their athletes under the table for the last 15-20 years. If you think all of those 5-star black athletes were lining up to play in small-town deep-south universities for any reason other than money, you're delusional.
The minute private equity gets involved with my university is the last time I will ever consider giving them money.
Same. This is why I don't ever seeing this happening. These programs live off of 30-50% of revenues come from donations. Nobody is going to donate to a for-profit corporation.
I never thought I would see the day when the backup free safety is making more money than some professors.
Professors don't bring in money
College athletics being ruined in front of our eyes. NIL, need 10 streaming platforms and now private equity.
But NIL is constitutional, it doesn't matter what sports fans think. What the NCAA did was unconstitutional. The NCAA lost their case in front of the Supreme Court 9-0.
Couldn’t agree more. This is wrong and is destroying what college football stood for
@@xuimod The courts got this wrong. These athletes are students who are getting rewarded with very valuable scholarships, a place to stay, food and even getting FCOA. Some of the money that gets collected from sales goes to the other sports, and some money from D1 do help trickle down to sponsor championship in sports in D2 and 3 that P4 recruit for transfer out of them.
@@xuimod It is constitutional - but that doesn't mean that the NCAA can't monitor or regulate it in some way! THis was about paying the players. But football programs always were the financial support for the other sports on campus (not academics like the clueless commentator said) ! The current "free-for-all" that is happening without any regulation is truly destroying the sport. There needs to be contracts in place if one is being paid to play and limitiations on the transfer portal that continue to support the product on the field!
@cannibi? Free tech & storage trashing real with kid cost deficit?
Most of these schools are public universities. I don’t see how state legislatures would allow an equity investment, Title IX notwithstanding. At the same time, funding these programs through the bond market seems highly unlikely. Now for private schools (Notre Dame, Southern Cal, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, U of Miami, etc.), those obstacles may not be present.
if programs are privatized im not donating a damn cent
You wouldn't need to. But, you could buy shares. Is that more valuable than your donation? It is a legitimate question.
It helps when they have 7-8 home football games every year and complain when they 're not picked in the final 12 . Should be the same for every team , 6 home and 6 away . You shouldn't be rewarded with an extra home game just because you have the money to payoff a cupcake .
This is total BS. This jerk that was on at the beginning of this program needs to be gone!!
Ok keyboard expert u do better
This would be a disaster.
We need a 24/7 Tom Lee channel
Can't be 24/7 since it probably takes Tom 2 hours a day to get the right amount of hair product in place for the Tom Lee look.
Keep these vultures out of college sports. These are college sports that are run by government run states which needs to keep the public away from private. We need laws in place to protect the NCAA and schools from being taken to court by the athletes who are already being paid with scholarships, place to live, food and FCOA. The money the schools take in are also being used to help fund the non-revenue sports which to keep the schools in compliance to Title 9. Plus some of the money at D1 is also being used to help fund championships at the D2 and 3 levels which then 75 schools and others also recruit through transfers.
You like the public vultures better than you like the private vultures....for universities. But i am betting you side with the private vultures in your personal investments.
Notre Dame and Stanford to the Big Ten - LFG!
Oh my!!! How money has ruined a way to develop young people! Instead we are teaching them that money is a god. Let’s turn back to GOD!
So will the college players get 50% of the revenue??? This is will definitely be a fight over billions.
I didn't think they would show the 75.
Google it, I read their article. I was mostly curious about the evaluation of the 75 teams. It was interesting.
Is this another "late stage capitalism" moment?
No Wayne how long ago did u read about that on Wikipedia 😂😂 throwing it around😂
No please nooooo gosh no!
These are universities. No one smart will take what they are offering. If universities need advice on how to produce more revenue on their brands, hiring a consultant is better than selling off a percentage for quick cash. That they'll need to pay back by giving away a percentage of all future earnings.
I can only see desperate teams in hopes of jumping a few tiers into the Power 5 would think about entertaining this type of offer. Even that's a stretch. It doesn't make sense mathematically
DId I miss where they said who made the cut?
Seems like they only mention 5 of them?
1. Ohio State University $1.32B $280M Big Ten Columbus, OH public
2. University of Texas at Austin $1.28B $271M SEC Austin, TX public
3. Texas A&M University $1.26B $279M SEC College Station, TX public
4. University of Michigan $1.06B $230M Big Ten Ann Arbor, MI public
5. University of Alabama $978M $200M SEC Tuscaloosa, AL public
6. University of Notre Dame $969M $224M ACC Notre Dame, IN private
7. University of Georgia $950M $210M SEC Athens, GA public
8. University of Nebraska $943M $205M Big Ten Lincoln, NE public
9. University of Tennessee $940M $202M SEC Knoxville, TN public
10. University of Oklahoma
This is akin to purchasing art to burn it, as a proud alum of a Power 5 school, I would be devastated if some PE came in to help “monetize their assets more effectively” if fact the thought makes me nauseous
I read the article only to see how they evaluated the universities. But only desperate teams would entertain this in hopes of elevating their brand to a higher tier. That is... until they have to pay out a percentage of their earnings. Or when they need to get approval from the investors to make certain changes.
This is like inviting a middleman between you and your mortgage company, whose fee is only a small percentage for his services. It makes no logical sense.
How do I invest ?
This guy gets it!
In ten years the only true sport will be Tee Ball.
Sponsored by Nerf, Louisville Slugger and Under Armor
@@socafe9240 You beat me too it!! ROFLOL!!
Colleges should stop athletics programs if this is just about professional sports becoming a part of the institutions. Colleges are to educate. Not to promote professional sports. This is disgusting.
They have been businesses for 100 years.
Nothing disgusting about this. College football is a big business.
The athletic department is a huge marketer for the university's academic enrollment, brand, etc. It is why school trustees/regents/presidents are so willing to invest and so aggressively into Football and Men's Basketball.
Even for schools which offer limited or no athletic scholarships, athletics are used to market students.
@reverend_wintondupree No. The University and the professors that teach classes are what matters. You describing a situation where the athletics tail wags the educational system's dog.
@@KK-pm7ud What I described is exactly the economic environment for universities in how they market themselves, how they recruit students, and how they generate additional revenue today to cover administrative and capital expenses. Whether it's right or wrong does not change the fact universities are dependent on the benefits granted from successful athletic departments.
For the most academically prestigious schools, the athletics branding means much less. But for everyone else it is an essential component to undergraduate schools to stand as a differentiator amongst one another when their is a glut of universities to choose from. If anything, athletics may become even more important to universities as the population of college age demographics decrease and the need to cover administrative costs rises.
For this relationship to change the entire economic model of universities must change and for that to happen will require a drastic reduction in physical universities within the market and administrative expenses to reduce significantly.
@reverend_wintondupree The economic model of universities does not have to change. They can eliminate college athletics and be just fine. You're just gaslighting.
I Want to see the ENtire list.
First time Rebecca has ever been upset that Investors want to destory something🤣😂🤣
Impressive that Alabama is in top 5. They do not have many “big/famous” alumni and the others ahead of them have much bigger alumni bases.
So you shorting Bama?
DUKE and Stanford are two of the Top 5 sports properties (#4 & #2 respectively) in the ACC in terms of both revenue and rank according to these newly released PE valuations. How many folks would have guessed that? Two schools with tiny little undergrad populations, but large endowments and proven track record of excellence. Remember, its not what you or your bias thinks, its what the big money men think, they're the ones who crunched the numbers. 😮
the major schools don't need private equity money, it's the smaller ones that could use it to compete with the bigger ones. I.e. SMU this year is now competing in the playoffs after 40 years of obscurity due to their group of billionaires getting together force-feeding it capital.
So what are the 75 teams?
Here's an interesting concept: Instead of paying one freshman $10,000,000 how about pay all 500 student athletes at the school $20,000 each?
Communism
So, you want the 500th "least" talented athlete to get part of the money earned by the number 1 "most" talented athlete?
Okay...........sit down, Bernie Sanders.
You still working in fast food? Grow up or move to another country.
Dear Lord all of this sounds crazy, because alumni business owners are going to buy the rights to these teams. This guy just said that they are looking to buy 2 teams at 51% 😳
Will they then decide who is head coach etc?
Wow, this is nuts!
Could you imagine schools like USC and Stanford, which have more billionaire alumni than any of these top 5 schools listed combined! Also more national championships, than all of these top 5 schools combined. Who is going to buy the rights to those schools 🤷🏻♂️
NCAA is done and they need to create a governing body for all of this craziness. Hopefully all of the sports that create less revenue will an increase in 💵
Greed ALWAYS kills the Golden Goose
How many of these top schools have had championships in multiple sports? Yet the school that has isn't there OR it's just football.
How can you continue to ask boosters to donate money to a program when that program now has an actual owner?
Boosters = Investors. Get up to speed.
Very good
College sports is pretty much dead to me. The NIL and immediate transfer through the portal has already ruined the game imo.
But not all the way dead to you. We appreciate your continued engagement. Thank you and have a nice day.
@ You run cnbc? Why do you appreciate my engagement? You act like you own the channel.
@@MSDOGS1976 LOL. I am giving you what their thought process is. As long as you have "some" engagement, they know you are interested. That's an opportunity to put sponsors in your eyes and ears. Dont blame me for understanding how the game works.
@ Well I hope they didn’t put all their ad revenue into these playoff games for people like me as I watched about 10 minutes total.
@@MSDOGS1976 Point is, you watched. Not sure why you are rejecting that part of the equation. But carry on.
Nebraska at #7. I've been telling people forever that the Huskers are towards the top of the list as far as money goes
So what you are saying is they get the least bang for their buck out of all power 4 conference teams.
warren buffet incoming
@@jacksonmahomes9906 Warren Buffet doesn't donate to Nebraska athletics, he donates to Creighton and to the University of Nebraska Med Center
@@alta58043 that's a different argument. The Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable franchise in the world ... winning doesn't necessarily have a correlation with value
Terrible idea.
The guy explaining it is icky. Just sleeze I think any school that gets involved should provide free tuition. After all the main purpose of a college/university is education not athletics.
Money always find away into any equation.
What a crazy idea. To have investors owning the athletic program. Ok. Agenda item#1, get rid of unprofitable sports, so keep only football and men's basketball.
If I were the university, I would sell the majority of the program and then charge a ton of rent, the program would never be profitable and money would always stay with the school.
Title 9, or the schools will get sued.
You mean sort of how municipalities used to charge owners $1 stadium rent? After the city funded the entire project.
The USPS is going to be privatized, also. It's going to snowball.
This will be the END OF college sports
But not the end of college athletics. They will play in the private investment "games". Since you dont like the word "sports".
Disgusting!
Money will win get over it your still gonna watch them play and show up because we all have nothing better to do
The math doesn't add up. This doesn't make good financial sense. No universities will fall for this.
You are correct. 50.5% Deal!! ROFLOL!!
I see what Becky views as a negative as a big, enormous benefit in making it clear to anyone and everyone what is really going on already and that is most major college sports programs in football and basketball are professional teams with little connection to education. Most of these athletes are there ONLY to play their sport and get drafted into the NFL or NBA. Most see going to class as a major distraction with many not qualified to attend college thereby leading to the corruption of the grading system as we have seen in the past at such schools as the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina. These schools are the ones that got caught. Many more pull these shenanigans. I have seen such maneuvers at a school with well-known sports programs where I was a graduate student.
Now, what I see as an even more hopeful development in making what was a farce much more out in the open is the loss of interest in contributing to colleges so that we can boil the colleges down to actually educating the young instead of drawing in young people who care little about education and all about going to games and then to parties. We can hope that these students would cease wasting their and taxpayers' money taking a four year vacation that only breeds STD's, drug addiction, and alcoholism without their having learned the classics and how to reason to an objective truth. The loss of unrestricted donations to the college would force the colleges to showcase their academic accomplishments in order to attract both students and alumni donations. Being an alumnus of a school would be something to brag about based on their school's traditions, academic excellence, and what the school teaches in substance instead of how their pro teams are doing.
The moral rot that has taken the Western world can be traced to universities. If donors were more aware of the mindless nihilism that is being taught, when the students are taught at all by professors many of whom do not teach but only do obscure research that no one reads or cares about, then the donors would either demand better teaching that continues the Western Canon or cut off the funding altogether until the traditional mission of colleges is resumed. Postmodernism and Neo-Marxism while discussed and analyzed should not be the foundation of the little education that students receive in colleges today.
Then we can talk about defunding research that has re-oriented colleges away from education of the young and into either completely arcane nonsense or very valuable discoveries that should be carried out by think tanks, corporate R&D, and other independent institutions such as Bell Labs with professors only tangentially involved in research with their main focus being teaching. Teaching is much more important since teaching is what continues our inherited wisdom of the past millennia that has characterized Western Civilization.
That's why Notre Dame is in the drivers seat. They don't need help they keep there own money. So why join a conference again?.
Because Notre Dame is unique and probably the only school that can sustain being independent.
@mbrownie22. True.... Other Universities could do they same. Texas, Bama....
If a Football Super league is formed between the top branded schools then Notre Dame will join.
Mabey becsuse a coming day when this wrecklas money grab puts its sight on notre dame not paying a conference fee but relies on us to fill their bag!! And its as simple as a quick handshake deal amonst a couple of conferences for an agreement to just not agree to any more future matchups!! So what do you figure the irish would do if the day was approaching when they could no longer feature sec or big 10 matchups? Theres only a few options they could cut their tv deal by 80% and play 4 big12 teams evry year. They could also become a finacial dream for group5 by handing them half their scheduels. They could quit playing. Or they could shop the best deal to snuggle in with the best cash offer which logicly would come from the two who forced this joke which convieniantly forces notre dame to terminate its affiliation and filling the bag held by acc which likly would vaporize any threat from the last couple of credible threats in america which will leverage miami and florida st to our doors looking for a deal, and i assume they would leave clemson on their own, in the acc, to watch them wither away on espn 57 while their on espns flagship laughing at them simply as retaliation for that little stunt clemson pulled off 13 years ago when they went renegade on a wreklas rampage and hellbent on getting a large piece of the games largest bag and with complete disregard to for the our deal with league office which already rigged up who would have access to large pieces of the only relevant bag tecnichaly unclaimed until the four teams were named on a 2hour espn megaevent played for leagues mosr cherrished honor to see who ranked #1 . Yet thats a fairy tale the only honor getting into that bag and the biggest cut of it when its chopped up! So this was the most basic of rackets but had a world class return!!! The scam at its core was to convince society, that those the con centered around ,once took a loss, that they were first in line of evey other one loss team in country. And once confident america had zero clue that the product they were buying was a game of shells, they began blatant disregard to appear even credible and saw the iconic michegan vs ohio st matchup as an opportunity to still sell the worlds premier rivalry yet as they looked society in the eye and fed them a line of crap they had already turned this historical matchup into a contest of no more value than a spring warm up!! This joke.got even funnier when anyone with a brain realized they had decided a month ago that their plan was to quietly end the big10 two weeks before the championship as who ever lost the annual classic was provided one of the four most covetted invitations and access to that huge bag, then the winner certainly had zero incentive to win or even play their conference title game, as the league could sell them as winner of that joke a couple weeks ago as both understood the only goal of a tradition like no other was to not get involved in grinder where somebody could get hurt. Yet a week later was a premium matchup for the highest stakes, and the high stakes that society also couldnt see was that this was the first time they were pushed a game that before it kicked off was deemed for bragging rights from an office in a differen time zone aside from the staggering opportunity already given to both programs entirly based on that scrimmage their playing next saturday which also turned the title game in two weeks into a practice drill!!
not really ... it can only happen because others bend over for them ... all it takes is one or two commissioners with a spine to say we're not scheduling Notre Dame and it's over for you
This is a terrible idea. It’s just basically making another NFL where most of the players won’t be making the actual pros. If they make a “super conference” that will alienate all small market teams. Why would someone from New York give a crap about SEC football. They have no connection to the teams. As a college football fan all my life, I personally don’t like the path it’s on now.
Not liking the path and not engaging is 2 different things. We appreciate your continued engagement. Thank you and have a nice day.
@@dredey1971 ok big shot. You’re right I’m not engaging like I used to. They might as well just do a super playoff between the SEC and Big 10 teams at this point.
@@connordonnelly7455 Engagement is your comments about college sports on the internet. It all matters to the money people. And you are still participating which gives them opportunity to put their sponsors in in your eyesight and ear shot. Dont blame me because i know how it works. Still engaging?
it would be different if we were talking on an espn account or a cfp highlight video. This is a cnbc video and I like finance valuations. I know how modern advertising works, I can still love the sport but not like the direction it’s going. Not sure why you waste your time arguing with people for their opinion. I don’t care about the SEC vs Big 10 playoffs every year, but you might and that’s ok.
Why in the hell should taxpayers pay for institutions whose pure purpose is to generate profit? If that's the case, I'd prefer my taxes be invested in an actual investment fund instead of some loser coach like Jimbo Fisher who is the highest paid state employee. Why should an alumni of Auburn pay taxes that goes to the University of Alabama which inevitably budgets it for their football team? The athletics brand and almost every football program including even rich juggernauts like Oregon and Texas exist because of the universities and taxpayers and to support the educational and scholastic missions of these schools. There is no purpose for these programs to exist in a professional private sector market. The point of it this all is not to have a NFL minor league.
"Phenomenal opportunity" means horrible for education. College sports are a joke now.
This is grotesque.
This is SO stupid and would ruin College Sports.