SEC/Big Ten Developing Plan to Share Revenue with Athletes

[Clonehomer]

Kinda bonkers that they're just flat rejecting the idea of cutting back some of the clearly frivolous spending pervasive throughout college sports. We're about to find out if there are limits to the insane price increases college sports fans will absorb. Maybe the bubble will finally - if not burst, start to spring a leak.

Gotta wonder if this is a revenue thing or if this is a find the price where demand line meets the supply line. Cause if there’s truly a waiting list, they aren’t there yet.

Paying players directly is what’s going to cause that bubble to burst more than the ticket prices. This opens the door to all sorts of issues that professional leagues can handle through collective bargaining that CFB cannot without a union forming first.

 

[Kinch]

How much is Florida State's talent fee?

 

[Cyclone06]

Where do you think funding for sports comes from?

Well when do the people doing the funding get to negotiate the contracts and allocate the budget?

At Iowa State we have it pretty damn good, and the trust in those doing the contracts and budget allocations is as high as it has ever been.

The level of greed and hypocrisy that is plain as day anymore is simply nauseating. And college sports is one place that level is rising like a rocket ship. Maybe I am wrong, perhaps this trajectory is very sustainable.

 

[CycloneErik]

Now tipping culture is out of control.

 

[Bestaluckcy]

Wait in a couple years to when the talent results doesn’t measure up to the increased cost. Those fans could turn on their team in a heartbeat.

 

[ISU_Guy]

Wait in a couple years to when the talent results doesn’t measure up to the increased cost. Those fans could turn on their team in a heartbeat.

I agree with this statement, but the problem with all of this realignment, NIL and now "talent fee" garbage is that by doing it causes a chain reaction with all the schools and it doesn't every really get removed.

adding a 10% talent fee is basically like passing a hat around the stadium with a required donation and in stadiums like Tennessee, it will be a lot of money. super easy math at $5 increase average per ticket with 100,000 tickets per game is a good amount of money.

Just love when I buy 2 tickets for $20/each in the nose bleeds from some event, and at check out i get hit with Tax, processing fees, convivence fees, etc. so my total is like $65. so this would just be another fee.

Will be kind of funny when you see this talent fee being applied and the team sucks how the fans react.

 

[CascadeClone]

The trick here is that the very top end money schools will have no problem doing this kind of thing to get another $10M annual. The middle and bottom - not so much.

For a long time, there's been a big money divide between the elite and the next tier. But there has always been a law of diminishing returns to spending that money - you can only pay coaches so much, facilities, etc. So the 2nd tier could still compete (or at least most of the 2nd tier) and break thru at times.

My worry is that as the gap becomes even bigger than ever, the 2nd tier won't be even ALLOWED to compete, because of new rules and requirements tied to that incremental money. Minimum spend requirements, higher limits on # of players, more coaches and 'analysts' allowed, etc. They're creating a minimum buy-in that is so high, ONLY the richest of the rich will be allowed in the game.

It's like what defense contractors do to win government contracts - they shape the requirements for the proposal in such a way that they are the only company who can meet the requirement. And then they bid high knowing they are the only ones who can win.

 

[NWICY]

Sounds like it's a 10% increase to me.