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WR making more than 1 million a year

BeastMode said:
Their salaries aren’t justified by their production is all I was saying. Also fans and boosters are having to pay it’s *** backwards
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Sure, the NCAA has income equivalent to the GDP of medium size Eastern European nation, the individual conferences do too. But if players were paid from their end, they wouldn’t be amateurs anymore, maybe not even students… and that’s what this all about, isn’t it? Amateur students playing for the love of sport. Wholesome.

For real tho…I don’t think the biggest boosters, who’re shelling out the most money, are in any way unhappy. They can finally buy the thing they’ve wanted most. And do it legally.
 
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Calinative said:
I mean a few guys making $1M isn't crazy.
... But probably Cause thats vet min in the NFL, and the rosters in CFB are 2.5x larger than the NFL.. **** Practice Squad for the year only gets you paid <$250k.
And it may be a $10B/yr industry, but each program isn't making that. The VERY TOP programs are making $150-$180M (oregon-ohio st). The Bottom P4 programs are making closer to $60M/yr in revenue. ... The NFL is a $23B industry and only has 32 teams. Teams bring in about $500M (like Bengals)-$1.2B (like Cowboys) in revenue... And like legit 100% of your neccessary yearly expenses are covered as a CFB player.

If you wanted to think of it compared to the NFL Multiply everything by 6x for like the top 10 spenders, and closer to 10x for the bottom of the P4 spenders. Thats the difference in pay between what you'd expect from CFB programs to NFL 6-10x. Then you gotta factor in roster size... NFL WR room is usually 5 or 6 guys. CFB is like 11. So naturally the top contracts must be less, because you got similar positions to pay. So instead of it being like a 6-10x multiplier, it shoudl be like 10-15x... So like a WR making $1.8M is more equivalent to a NFL player making $18-$27M/yr effectively...
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But this isn’t the NFL, and the market forces in college football have nothing to do with an athletic department weighing ROI against a players ability to contribute to Ws or generate dollars.

College football is an ego massaging hobby for very wealthy people… It’s 100% driven by emotion, not fiscal responsibility. It can’t be compared to the NFL. If a billionaire loves his team then watching them win a ‘ship, or even just defeat the arch rival, is worth more than an NFL WR room’s salary.

P&Ls have nothing to do with how money is spent in CFB.
 
I don't have an issue with the money necessarily, but we know money just goes up over time and I wonder how programs and boosters will keep up with increasing demands in the future because blink and we'll be at $5 million in a few years.
 
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The whole idea of NIL is for the kids making the University money to get a small taste and for the household names to be able to capitalize with endorsements. It's not supposed to be a salary to play football.
 
JHallCanes said:
I remember being a young kid and people would criticize athletes salaries

And I’m like wait…what about the people who pay them? The ones using them for their talents while their fat asses do nothing?
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I always took the side of the guys that risked millions (and now billions) to create and run a business with thousands of employees.

This is like saying Jeff Bezos shouldn't be worth billions for creating a business that has generated trillions in wealth b/c the guy that originally packed the books and put a shipping label on the box actually did the "work".
 
Hurricane23 said:
well Miami better pay more if they want game changers at WR
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#1 offense with zero drafted WRs last year - money needs to be spent on QB, OL, DL, and DB. Skilled RB/WRs grow on trees.

JSmith the only one on that list that routinely makes the difference between wins and losses and now that teams scheme for him he'll be 50% less effective this year than last.
 
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ssvir said:
#1 offense with zero drafted WRs last year - money needs to be spent on QB, OL, DL, and DB. Skilled RB/WRs grow on trees.

JSmith the only one on that list that routinely makes the difference between wins and losses and now that teams scheme for him he'll be 50% less effective this year than last.
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Yeah you do have a great point though. But having all of that plus a JSmith does make it better
 
JamesQuall said:
dId YoU kNoW hE’s 17 YeArS oLd??????
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