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Colleges most expensive roster

I don't think this kind of spending is sustainable even at the P4 elite level. Donor fatigue is a real thing. Sanity cannot come soon enough to college football and basketball. Eventually there will have to be limits put into place for both player and coaches' salaries. This will require collective bargaining leading to a salary caps and revenue sharing. How soon any of these could be agreed upon and implemented is anyone's guess. Publicly funded universities should not be allowed to pay such exorbitant salaries that are not tied directly to revenue. Asking taxpayers and students to subsidize athletic departments should be halted until real reforms are made and spending limits put in place.
 
McPeachy said:
That is sickening. Isn't there some guideline out there that says the "have's" can only NIL up to $20 million or something? And is that only from the school, not their NIL collectives? What a joke either way.
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The problem is that the $20 million revenue limitation is only from University funds/revenues. The NCAA has no teeth to prevent private money under the guise of real ‘name, image and likeness’ endorsements from coming in.

Absent Congressional legislation, there is no such thing as college sports. It is professional in every sense.
 
NorthWestCowboy said:
I don't think this kind of spending is sustainable even at the P4 elite level. Donor fatigue is a real thing. Sanity cannot come soon enough to college football and basketball. Eventually there will have to be limits put into place for both player and coaches' salaries. This will require collective bargaining leading to a salary caps and revenue sharing. How soon any of these could be agreed upon and implemented is anyone's guess. Publicly funded universities should not be allowed to pay such exorbitant salaries that are not tied directly to revenue. Asking taxpayers and students to subsidize athletic departments should be halted until real reforms are made and spending limits put in place.
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I thought the same thing until I reminded myself just how much ridiculous amounts of money some of these donors have at certain schools have and just how insanely devoted they are to athletic success (rationality having no bearing). Cody Campbell is a prime example. He is a multi-billionaire who played football at Texas Tech. He has an open checkbook for the Red Raiders.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
I thought the same thing until I reminded myself just how much ridiculous amounts of money some of these donors have at certain schools have and just how insanely devoted they are to athletic success (rationality having no bearing). Cody Campbell is a prime example. He is a multi-billionaire who played football at Texas Tech. He has an open checkbook for the Red Raiders.
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Once you get to Billions...it's an absurd amount of money...at that point, you might as well buy yourself a competetive college team.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
I thought the same thing until I reminded myself just how much ridiculous amounts of money some of these donors have at certain schools have and just how insanely devoted they are to athletic success (rationality having no bearing). Cody Campbell is a prime example. He is a multi-billionaire who played football at Texas Tech. He has an open checkbook for the Red Raiders.
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There definitely are P4 schools that can pull it off, but I think there are many that cannot on an annual basis.
 
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