PBS Frontline: Money and March Madness

[Big Old Booger]

I watched this documentary last night on Frontline. It's about 20-30 minutes long.

It is about the money the NCAA tourney generates and the fact the players get nothing from it. Did you know the NCAA tournament generates 90% of the NCAA's yearly revenues? 90%! I wonder how much of the remaining 10% is from football? 9%?

It mentions the video games and the fact the players represented in the video games get nothing for the use of their image. It also mentions all NCAA athletes before they are eligible to play for a member institution has to sign a waiver that their image can be used for video games, or games in which they played can be sold to networks (ESPN classic) for re-broadcast.

Anyway, if you have 30 minutes to watch the documentary, I'd be interested as to your thoughts.

Michael Lewis, who wrote Moneyball and The Blind Side, is also interviewed.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...epage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist

 

[CzechM8]

I watched this documentary last night on Frontline. It's about 20-30 minutes long.

It is about the money the NCAA tourney generates and the fact the players get nothing from it. Did you know the NCAA tournament generates 90% of the NCAA's yearly revenues? 90%! I wonder how much of the remaining 10% is from football? 9%?It mentions the video games and the fact the players represented in the video games get nothing for the use of their image. It also mentions all NCAA athletes before they are eligible to play for a member institution has to sign a waiver that their image can be used for video games, or games in which they played can be sold to networks (ESPN classic) for re-broadcast.

Anyway, if you have 30 minutes to watch the documentary, I'd be interested as to your thoughts.

Michael Lewis, who wrote Moneyball and The Blind Side, is also interviewed.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...epage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist

You can thank Oklahoma and Georgia for this... back in the 80's when we sued the NCAA and won.... now most of the football revenue goes back to the conferences and schools, instead of to the commies (ncaa)...

That's why football is the impetus for things like conference realignment, huge television contracts, and the like... Football pays for the schools to have basketball, so in March all the tv money can go to the damn ncaa.

And, that's why a school like Oklahoma can write it's own ticket and a school like kansas (with it's admittedly elite bball status) would be left scrambling if it didn't have schools like Oklahoma to save it's ass...

It's also the reason all the school presidents say hell no to a football playoff... It's the ncaa's way of trying to squeeze more out of us... they already control the basketball tourney television money and they don't deserve that much if you ask me.

 

[Big Old Booger]

You can thank Oklahoma and Georgia for this... back in the 80's when we sued the NCAA and won.... now most of the football revenue goes back to the conferences and schools, instead of to the commies (ncaa)...

That's why football is the impetus for things like conference realignment, huge television contracts, and the like... Football pays for the schools to have basketball, so in March all the tv money can go to the damn ncaa.

And, that's why a school like Oklahoma can write it's own ticket and a school like kansas (with it's admittedly elite bball status) would be left scrambling if it didn't have schools like Oklahoma to save it's ass...

It's also the reason all the school presidents say hell no to a football playoff... It's the ncaa's way of trying to squeeze more out of us... they already control the basketball tourney television money and they don't deserve that much if you ask me.

Agreed. After watching the documentary, I'm under the belief the NCAA should pay for the parents of all players in the tournament (and post-season play including the NIT and CBI) to attend the games to watch their kids play.

If they make that much money, then they could at least do this.

 

[BoulderSooner]

I watched this documentary last night on Frontline. It's about 20-30 minutes long.

It is about the money the NCAA tourney generates and the fact the players get nothing from it. Did you know the NCAA tournament generates 90% of the NCAA's yearly revenues? 90%! I wonder how much of the remaining 10% is from football? 9%?

It mentions the video games and the fact the players represented in the video games get nothing for the use of their image. It also mentions all NCAA athletes before they are eligible to play for a member institution has to sign a waiver that their image can be used for video games, or games in which they played can be sold to networks (ESPN classic) for re-broadcast.

Anyway, if you have 30 minutes to watch the documentary, I'd be interested as to your thoughts.

Michael Lewis, who wrote Moneyball and The Blind Side, is also interviewed.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...epage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist

the NCAA makes almost nothing from football the schools do

 

[boksooner]

The only football money the NCAA gets is from FCS playoffs and lower division playoffs. It is minuscule in comparison to the money that FBS teams earn from football.