re: #72 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

I love college sports, but the system is incredibly fucked up, and has become even more so in the last 20 years. Part of the problem is, I suspect that a lot of universities and conferences have two sets of books. Sort of like what happens in the pros when there’s a threat of lockout or strike, the owners will offer to open their books to show how they’re losing money and the players will inevitably ask to see the “real” books.

For example, I highly doubt that all these conference television networks are just showing live sporting events that are losing money as some sort of public good. Especially if it’d be more “cost effective” to show reruns of football or basketball games.

Another problem is the money/power disparity between the big conferences and the smaller conferences.