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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've noticed that many left-leaning papers now use terms like "exploitation" and "plantations" to describe college football programs, with the obvious race-baiting implications. The narrative is that those poor black football players are apparently being duped by Big Bad Whitey into playing football for free.

The NCAA really should ban colleges from allowing academic concessions for athletes. That would instantly solve the "exploitation" problem by limiting athletics to real students, like the ivy's do. Most of these football players wouldn't even be able to get into the school to begin with.[/quote]

Lol - the NCAA is run by several Big Bad Whitey's and the only color they care about is green so there is no way in hell they're going to just abandon a farm system that brings in 1.3 billion in profits annually just to ease your discomfort with left-leaning papers using terms like "exploitation" and "plantations".[/quote]

Where are you getting this 1.3 billion in profits? Most college football programs lose money or break-even.[/quote]

Let's look at the top three money-making programs...
The University of Texas had the biggest profit of any program last season, earning $74 million, while the University of Michigan, which pocketed $64.6 million, was number two.  That explains how Michigan could outbid the NFL when it hired former San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh last year.  The University of Alabama ranked third with $53.3 million in profits.  Those figures are based on a CNNMoney analysis of 2013-2014 figures submitted to the U.S. Department of Education by each school.  They show that the 64 schools in the five major conferences brought in a combined $2.8 billion in revenue last year, mostly from broadcast rights and ticket sales and since teams don't have to pay their players, they keep nearly half of that revenue.  Speaking of broadcast rights, ESPN agreed to pay $7.3 billion to broadcast the new Division 1 playoffs for the first 12 years of the new system.
College football is an extremely profitable enterprise, and it's raking in even more money thanks to the new playoff system.
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