Ewers turns down $8 mill

As the ones gorging the market underwhelm as it is inevitable that some of them will, the market will come back to reality.

 

I remember thinking that after the 90’s baseball strike and nobody was even going to games. Did salaries ever go down? I think the greater fool theory will keep prices going up even where the business on its face seems to be struggling. If some major program(s) tap out, others will see an opportunity and make a move. Then when the mids get burned a few times, the major programs that previously tapped out (temporarily) will have some pent up demand for another spending spree, and round and round we’ll go.

Obviously college is a different beast as even with NIL no player is supposed to be getting a “salary”. It’s suppose to be essentially marketing deals on their name/image/likeness. Not a pay for play free for all. But Pandora’s box was open. So…

 

I agree he is definitely not worth 8 million …. This has gotten way out of control !!

 

I get the joke, but the academic calendar is just about the only thing remotely keeping the slightest of rules in tact.

Wouldn’t be surprised if having be enrolled in classes is challenged in court for being restrictive to a players ability make money

 

Agree. Ewers was, is, and always will be a game manager. As long as he is surrounded by UT level talent he will win. Arch should have left before this season started.

 

Nfl gives 51% to players last i checked. Texas profited 190 mil year before last was the number i heard. Title lx is a problem.

 

If Head coaching salaries in the past 30 years are any indication, that is exactly correct.

 

Revenue and profit are not the same. Tx may have generated that much revenue, but not even close to that much profit. Uf generated similar revenue but close to 15 million is all that’s leftover. UF and TX are not the norm. Most athletic dept’s already operate in the red. 15 million isn’t going very far if you put another 4-500 employees on payroll. It doesn’t even go that far for the 100 football players.

 

How they choose to spend their money isnt the issue.

 

Making them employees is the first step in reaching some sort of bargaining agreement. Until then, it’s just going to be what it is now, the wild west, and endless lawsuits.

 

The money is finite. You think the schools generate 200 million so they can just afford to give more money to anyone who asks for it? You want an nfl model? There is not nfl money. The browns generated over 600 million in ‘23. One of the worst teams in the league. The 200 million college ad’s are at the top of the heap, and they have to fund the entire athletic dept. Most do not generate that much, and most have nothing left over.

 

Funding their entire athletic department may not be in the future. Regardless of the number, a simple ratio can still apply. There are many sports departments funded without even having a football team at the college. Other sports may have to do what schools with no football team do in the near future.

 

Some of us here warned everyone in this forum this would happen if pay-for-play was normalized. Unfortunately for all college sports fans, it's going to get worse.

 

Yeah, NO... HAIL NO...

 

Where is the money coming from? I thought it was college sports fans.

 

Meat market

 

They pay 50 mil plus in the nfl. If you dont have a qb, you have zero chance. You just cant go into a season with no hope with a totally open market. Teams that dont pay are just giving up on the season. Its tge one position that cant be schemed around. If DJ didnt pkay on a bad leg, how many games would we have won? Its just not an option for the top 25 or so programs. They cant support sports that are a finacial drag and send Warner out tgere for 8-9 games and expect to continue generating hundereds of millions in the future. If an nfl qb is worth 50 for a good one and 25 for a warm body, how much should a college qb be worth.

 

It’s not necessarily what I want nor will I play any role in implementing it, but the schools need to be able to negotiate with the athletes as a whole. They aren’t going to organize until they’re employees. Until that happens, the ncaa will just be negotiating individually in a never ending amount of lawsuits, and they’ll lose more and more power each time. Just like they’re doing now, and have been doing since they lost the initial NIL lawsuit.

Making them employees opens up a bunch of other cans of worms, but being able to negotiate with the group as a whole is the only way for the ncaa to gain any semblance of power back. Right now all they’re doing is losing and losing and losing, over and over and over again.

It still won’t put a stranglehold on the third part money, and the fanbases that want to spend the most will continue to do so. The biggest thing they can really hope for is the ability to limit movement. Who knows what they’ll have to give up or guarantee to make that happen, but that part is the biggest thing that needs to be negotiated right this second, IMO. This would, or at least should, cut down on tampering, and maybe let the teams build teams again, instead of groups of mercenaries that move around every couple months.

 

Theyve got to get the ability to put players under contract.