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chuckd4vt

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These programs are already turning a profit. ALL of them.


The schools like to suggest that they are losing money from athletics, perhaps for the reasons you described. However, as Forbes has indicated, ALL the P5 schools make money from athletics. Even Rutgers and Maryland were making money prior to their heading to the B1G, where they are definitely making major dough nowadays. The schools fix the numbers so they can do things like charge students and ask for donations.

And many of them are straight up nowadays about their turning a profit anyhow. Texas can't hide but only so much money. It hasn't harmed their IRS status. The U makes money from things like parking and merchandise too. They turn profits from selling cheeseburgers to students. Why can't they make money from sports?

And I agree with you about the paying of players being relatively peanuts. You could pay every football player 40-50K for what VT is paying Fuente alone.
However, that MAY be slightly problematic for the Wakes and BCs of the world. And it might just be enough to convince them to just revert back to true amateurism.

(In response to this post by daveinop)

Posted: 05/16/2016 at 10:31PM


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  Stewart Mandel predicts a single 24-team mega conference in football -- GoobyPls 05/16/2016 10:06AM
  It would become an NFL developmental league. Not College football. ** -- wwhokie1 05/17/2016 10:03AM
  Fans of excluded schools would be most likely to become NFL viewers. -- Byting Gobbler 05/16/2016 9:15PM
  Lost me at "fun little exercise" ** -- Maroon Baboon 05/16/2016 2:56PM
  Re: Stewart Mandel predicts a single 24-team mega conference in football -- 33laszlo99 05/16/2016 2:22PM
  Football Season- Hurry up and get here- to relieve us of such fantasies- -- KnoxHokie 05/16/2016 1:40PM
  The trend is to add, not contract. We're up to how many bowls now? 40? -- HOO86 05/16/2016 1:23PM
  24 is too extreme and loses too many markets. 36 or 48 maybe. ** -- jesuisvtguy 05/16/2016 1:17PM
  That's what I'm thinking. ** -- chuckd4vt 05/16/2016 1:25PM
  I could totally see something like this happening in 10 years. -- chuckd4vt 05/16/2016 1:14PM
  Those 24 would completely kill college football in the Northeast. -- Old Line Hokie 05/16/2016 11:44AM
  LOL! "As we all know..." -- daveinop 05/16/2016 11:21AM
  Preposterous for a lot of reasons, but here are a few. -- lawhokie 05/16/2016 11:06AM
  Disagree. Schools will choose if they wanna play in semi-pro leagues or not -- chuckd4vt 05/16/2016 1:53PM
  24 will not work under any circumstance -- lawhokie 05/16/2016 9:34PM
  Think about private non-profit status and what it would cost to lose it -- daveinop 05/16/2016 5:58PM
  Maybe a question that should be asked is "What's the endgame for TV -- VTHokie2000 05/16/2016 1:42PM
  Why do you think it assumes the Big Ten would abandon its academic -- VTHokie2000 05/16/2016 1:12PM
  With or without VT... that outcome would be horrible. -- gman86 05/16/2016 10:50AM
  Would be interesting... -- VT_JustinGlass 05/16/2016 3:01PM
  No way Miami deserves to be in that group -- EDGEMAN 05/16/2016 2:22PM
  Regarding 3, I know dozens of Radford grads who watch VT on TV. ** -- chuckd4vt 05/16/2016 2:05PM
  Apples and oranges -- mrcaniac 05/16/2016 2:55PM
  ACC would be a power in that 'Second" conference. ** -- Old Line Hokie 05/16/2016 11:31AM
  Using his NFL Sunday package example, imagine how less popular -- Colonel Jessup 05/16/2016 10:27AM

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