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College Sports by Charlie
Irreverent sports opinion from the conservative South
From some of the greatest (and not so great) coaches
It's all about the money and has nothing to do with education
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Back when I was a Boy....
A bottle of Coke was 5 cents
A gallon of gas was 33 cents
Men looked and acted like men.
Nice girls were shy and did not use four-letter words.
The World Series was in early September.
A real man kept his word.
Prayer anywhere at anytime was ok.
Professional athletes were positive role models.
Big business was conducted with integrity.
Marriage was a life commitment.
Divorce was shameful.
Hard work was honored.
Government was not so big.
War was war and the US defended its people.
"Political correctness" was not even a phrase, certainly not a philosophy.
Bookmaker was the name of a guy in my neighborhood
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From Total Pro Sports
The TOP 10 Routiest / most Loyal College Football Fans. From Bleacher Report
Their 10 Best includes four Southeastern Conference schools. Surprise! Surprise! The SEC leads in just about any category you might choose. Go see which schools.
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Rich Getting Richer? A new report from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity shows that the subsidy gap between the majors and mid-majors of NCAA Division I is as wide as ever.
Oh those parents. Good guys or, " please leave"
Good Coaches. What sets them apart
Paul "Bear" Bryant. The great one
The F-word (and other notables). Every bit as repulsive as the N-word!
When we were kids How have we survived this long?
Concerns of an Implosion?
The money is obscene and growing. In 2003 Ohio State had the largest athletics budget in the country at $67 million. In 2009-10, Alabama was the nation's biggest spender, according to ESPN, at $224 million. Texas was second at $120 million, followed by OSU at $115 million, Florida at $ 107 million and Tennessee at $$101 million.
Notre Dame led the nation in recruiting expenses of $2.3 million followed by Tennessee at $1.8 million.
Of the 97 public universities that participated in the surveys, the average expenses for an athlete was $17,000 as opposed to $13,000 for regular students. But most BCS conference schools spend less on athletes than regular non-athletes. The SEC average being $9,000 per athlete versus $13,400 for the regular student.
Most BCS conference schools charge in-state tuition for out-of-state athletes. In leagues such as Conference USA, athletic departments have to pay the out-of-state tuition. This leaves some schools paying $32,600 for athletes as opposed to $11,000 for non-athletes.
Other FBS Conferences
The Ivy Concept, Part 1
The Ivy League members are: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. The Ivy League competes in the NCAA Division 1 in all sports. Football competes in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), once known as I-AA.
Before the advent of athlete scholarships at most present day football-playing schools, the Ivy League won more than 40 recognized national football championships. Princeton won 24 and Yale, 19.
The league sponsors more sports and more teams than any conference in the country, 33 men’s and women’s sports and an average of 35 varsity teams at each school. There are no athletic scholarships at Ivy League schools.
“Athletes shall be admitted as students and awarded financial aid only on the basis of the same academic standards and economic need as are applied to all other students”. Wikipedia.com
Since 2002, the Ivy League…
- Produced 47 NCAA individual national champions.
- Amassed nearly 100 student-athletes per year earning All-American honors
- Totaled 136 Academic All-Americans
- Had 223 competitors at the five Olympic Games (2000 – 2010), collecting 91 metals, including six gold.
“This successful competition in Division I national athletics is achieved by approaching athletics as a key part of the student's regular undergraduate experience: with rigorous academic standards, the nation's highest four-year graduation rates (the same as those for non-athletes), and without athletics scholarships. Ivy athletic programs receive multi-million-dollar institutional support as part of each institution’s overall academic programs, independent of win-loss or competitive records and together with extensive programs of intramural and recreational athletics.” IvyLeaguesports.com
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The Ivy League way, Part 2
Presently the United States is suffering a recession. People are out of work. Folks are losing their houses to foreclosure, da, da,da. Some college programs are cash rich and some are struggling.
According to Forbes Magazine, in 2005 there were 10 college football teams raked in at least $45 million in revenues--among them, the University of Notre Dame, University of Georgia, Ohio State and Auburn University--compared to none the previous five years. Forbes Magazine
In 2007–08 according to a study by The Orlando Sentinel, there were six college football programs with over $90 million in football revenue and nine more with revenues of over $80 million. If you care, Louisiana-Monroe had the smallest income at $7.8 million.
So is college football all about the money or what? In order to sustain and surpass such profits, schools will have to raise ticket and concession prices, demand heftier donations for the privilege of purchasing season tickets, and garner more lucrative corporate sponsorships, among other yet devised means.
To keep up with their conference and national foes, new facilities will need to be built and present ones renovated. For example, there is a lot of profit in building and selling luxury suites at stadiums. Recruiting budgets will certainly need to be increased as recruiting bases get larger and coaches’ salaries will zoom. All will require larger and larger budgets and the income to support such budgets. Why? To what purpose does the athletic arms war contribute to a university, its mission and its goals? At many of these schools barely one-half of their Saturday gladiators even graduate.
END of PART 2
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Rivalries are an unspoken understanding that both teams are playing for pride.
A feud is what happens when that rivalry is no longer unspoken.
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You tell them, Madam Governor
The owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, Robert Sarver, opposes AZ's new immigration laws. Arizona 's Governor, Jan Brewer, released the following statement in response to Sarver's criticism of the new law:
"What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were sneaking into games without paying? What if they had a good idea who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn't be ejected. Furthermore, what if Suns' ownership was expected to provide those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink? And what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or injured, the Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?" - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
Only 14 FBS athletic programs had more revenues than expenses
Yet again, nearly every Division I athletics program spent more than it made last year. And at a time when many are feeling pressure to achieve self-sufficiency, these programs are relying more than ever on institutional subsidies to balance their budgets.
Those were among the key findings of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's annual report of athletics revenue and expenses at its Division I institutions. The report, released Tuesday, painted a bleak financial picture for intercollegiate sports and reinforces critics’ charges that the current pattern of sports spending is unsustainable. The data for the 2008-9 report were compiled by Daniel L. Fulks, accounting program director at Transylvania University. See full story
