Protect College Sports Act [formerly “SCORE Act” thread]

[PennsylvaniaCane]

I was waiting for the foreign athletes issue to come up. Something like 1200 foreign athletes from NCAA institutions competed in the last Olympics (both summer and winter). Kind of a weird for republicans to be arguing that football and basketball players, mostly American citizens, should be responsible for subsidizing foreign Olympic athletes training while they’re in a US college.

 

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FOS: What part of the current college business model is the least sustainable?

GB: The growth of what your NIL budgets have been over a very short period of time. People criticize coaching salaries, sometimes athletic director salaries. There certainly has been growth there, but nowhere near as dramatic and as quick a growth as the NIL space. There certainly isn’t the revenues to support them in that shorter period of time frame.
At Alabama, we have purposely not reduced the investments we make in our student athletes academically, athletically, socially, nutrition, medical, etc. We feel that while we will be competitive in the NIL space, and our recruiting has shown that, we also want young people that want those other development services as well. Those are the ones who are going to be most interested in maximizing their growth here, as a person and as an athlete.

Alabama ad’s

Gee, i wonder why the growth has been so fast there? “The revenue to support them isn’t there. …. Even tho we are about to expand the playoffs and get a much larger slice of financial pie; even tho march madness alone, not even in the regular season included, d1 men’s basketball subsidizes billions in legal settlements, the ncaa as an institution and its hundreds of millions of dollars in investments, and pretty much everything in d2 and d3 despite no scholarships being available in d3.”

March Madness Broadcast Rights Top $1 Billion for First Time

The men's March Madness TV rights are paying $1 billion this year for the first time. The NCAA is looking to diversify its revenue beyond basketball.

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