- Joined
- Aug 17, 2020
- Posts
- 18,667
- Reaction score
- 30,372
- Bookie:
- $ 10,500.00



I agree and have been saying longer than anyone that we were going to have to make them employees and put them under contract. The logistics are going to be tough and programs like ours will figure it out but get to the G5 and they may not be able to.When you have been running an enterprise that has been and is going to be found to be illegal, you have to make tough choices. The one choice that won't be tough is that they will have to start paying the players. Period. Full stop. Crying poor won't cut it with the courts. The players are going to get paid directly by the schools. Once you realize that, you have to apply all the public accounting information you have developed over the years and decide where to cut in order to pay the players. Remember, "we can't afford to pay them" won't work.
I am fully aware that major renovations are normally paid for by donations. That's normally not in the annual budgets.
Here is UGA for 2022:
View attachment 115895
When UGA has to pay their players, that will become part of the expenses. If you can't see that paying coaches, support, and admin 44% of your expenses, while paying players nothing, I am not sure what to tell you. There is $77 million per year they can start getting rid of. Facilities and Equpment, Game Expenses and Travel, and Recruiting is another pile of money - $56 million. That's a total of $133 million ... UGA can find room in their to pay the players.
No one said this would be easy. It's kind of hard to put the salary genie back in the bottle, but tough shit. We all have to make tough bsuiness decisions all the time. Maybe don't run an illegal enterprise next time.
I get there are other programs that don't have this amount of money to do this ... they will have to go to a division where they don't pay the players, or don't pay as much. "Oh, but that sucks." Sure, tell that to the players.
All data from College Athletics Database
Here is Ball State, as a G5 example:
View attachment 115896
And Iowa State that quickly came to mind for B12 team:
View attachment 115897
The health of the sport depends on getting this right.