denisdman wrote:
One Post wrote:
denisdman wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Who should it be if not coaches? Governors? College Presidents?
They get paid what they do because college sports generate significant revenue and as of now the players have wage limits.
Yup. Name another state employee that brings in the revenue of Nick Saban unless you’re to count raising taxes.
Let’s say to round it off the Alabama athletic department took in 200MM of revenue in 2019. How much of that is incrementally attributable to Saban?
The incremental revenue of Saban over a random college football coach is massive. Almost all college revenue is coming from basketball and football. Without Saban or someone like him, AL football is an afterthought. He is probably worth $50M or more to the school per year.
This isn’t even close. If Saban is so valuable why is Alabama not even the highest revenue school in the SEC? With numbers from 2017 - 2018 Bama took in 177MM of revenue, but how can Saban be that valuable if Georgia took in 176MM? Is Kirby Smart worth just as much as Saban? Is Saban magically adding 50MM of revenue to the Georgia program? Your answers don’t square up.
Even assuming Saban is worth $50MM (hint he isn’t) are you saying that as a businessman you are fine with paying essentially a 20% commission on that revenue?