> I have been having conversations with friends over > the years about how to get Big Money out of > sports (College and, to a lesser extent, Pro), and > it really is not clear how you would do it.
As long as the demand is there for this (or any) form of entertainment, someone will find a way to exploit it. In the pros, at least, there's very little pretense that the sport takes place for any reason but to make money. Colleges, on the other hand, like to claim that athletics are part of a well-rounded education. While it's true in many cases, the sorts of programs that would be of interest to a television list have moved beyond that to being a lucrative form of mass entertainment, and the schools involved have done everything they can to maximize their revenue. Even in the extremely unlikely event that the NCAA would decide and be able to limit televised football to one or two national games a week like they did in the '60s (which stopped because of legal action), the many channels that show college football would find other games to show, be they lower-division college games or even more high school games, and the money involved in those rights fees would have the same effect. So the question is how to distribute the billions of dollars that are involved in big-time college sports, and how much the athletes should participate. Money will leave politics before it leaves sports. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
