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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 3902164, member: 628"]
CBS and Turner pay the NCAA over a billion dollars a year for the right to broadcast the men's basketball tournament.  That's billion with a B.

The other major media companies pay the power 5 conferences multiple billions of dollars a year for the right to broadcast their football games.  That's billions that ends in an S.

Head coaches in both sports make tens of millions of dollars between university salaries, booster payments, endorsements and other revenue streams.  Administrators at universities make six, and seven, figure salaries.

The media executives that sign those deals also make six and seven figure salaries.  As do those who work for the advertising agencies, marketing firms, sponsorship outlets, consumer goods and apparel corporations, and other businesses that profit wildly from the college sports space.

The college athletics system has been utterly awash in preposterous amounts of money for years.  Precious little of it has gone to the people who actually play the games.  They're going to get [I]slightly[/I] more, in the grand scheme of things, given the new rules.

I get the love of "amateurism", but that has been an illusion, almost forever.    I mean, it's not like the Miami players of the 80s weren't soaked in money and drugs and women.  Yet they were "amateurs" because it was all handed out under the table.

Players will still be coming to these schools as 18 years olds and developing as people, students and athletes.  That's not going to radically change.  Fans will still love the sports because the teams represent something that lives deep within us.  It may be a little different, but that's OK.  Change is good, even though it can be disruptive and messy.

It'll be OK, hang in there.
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