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Heck, there’s imbalance in the pros too. The Mets are outspending the Rays by 4 or 5 times this year on players. The Warriors are paying bonkers luxury tax numbers to keep their team intact, I think with similar multiples compared to the bottom teams. But those leagues also have mechanisms to...

I guess instead of hinting at things like Marx's ideas about alienated labor you should've just referred to what we call it today when it happens to white-collar professionals making hundreds of thousands a year but not feeling connected to the overall success or profits of the busines: burnout...

Courts are much more "where do we draw the line" then "let's extend the argument forever" in stuff like this, and they clearly haven't been drawing the line in the same place as the NCAA recently. I'm not confident they'd overturn a sit-if-you-transfer a rule if it was reinstated, but I...

Replying separately to this one since it was added after I started my first reply. :) I think the big difference is that the pro leagues have established a team/player relationship and top-level negotiated agreement that college sports lacks entirely. Otherwise this example is somewhat...

But the validity of contracts made in the current system is the whole dispute. Kavanaugh in particular has made it very clear he sees it as employment (calling the athletes the school's "workers"). You're right, transferring is very different than something like Alston since currently the...

I'm not so certain even on that right now. If I'm the NCAA, I don't want to open any doors to any more legal scrutiny at all, since I'm already in potentially hot water. I don't know if they'd lose the case, and I don't think it would've been likely to get that rule overturned before they...

I agree with this but the only practical way I see the NCAA being allowed to restrict things is through collective bargaining with an actual player union like the pro leagues. The courts are not showing any patience for employment-contract-like restrictions without employment compensation in...

The Yankees wish they could just directly bid on all the Rays’ best prospects and young players every year in the transfer portal. 😏

The latter one is especially interesting when you look at which owners are most in favor of revenue sharing, salary caps, max salary limits... I'm not sure why "demanding" is any sort of deviation, though. What's wrong with negotiating? Is it just the collective bargaining part? Cause if so...

On the flip side, do you not think there's a reason there's a minimum salary in pro leagues?

You talk about the will to perform not being there without competition, without winners or losers. But nobody's proposing some sort of "every team wins half their games!" system. The post you’re replying to just said it can also be destroyed in other conditions, such as monopolistic/oligarchist...

This applies to teams and fans too. The pro leagues all insist on things in their negotiations with players that lower the potential earnings for the very top players in exchange for limiting just how dominant the best teams can be. Or just things that try to explicitly help the worst teams...

No. Because the ACC won’t either 😏😉

Even at $30/month some sort of direct to consumer FutureESPN isn't in "only for the wealthy" territory but I definitely think "going to the games" will continue to shift that way. Sports will have to compete with new stuff like video game streaming, but there's currently a weird economic...

If ESPN is in financial to Comparatively more advantageous to the ACC than ESPN, yes, but not comparatively more advantage to the ACC than the SEC. The SEC deal only ends a couple years before the ACC deal so assuming ESPN stays solvent, even if the next SEC deal came in below the ACC deal due...

Probably bittersweet but hopefully he got great feedback to work on and has a great year next year!

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37763270/mlb-san-diego-padres-tv-rights-bally-sports-diamond MLB asking for $20/month for cord cutters for streaming access to Padres games after Diamond/Bally didn’t pay. They’ve also directly negotiated with some local cable companies for those who haven’t...

Problem is if you're applying to an entry-level role with a GT 3.0 GPA and someone from Michigan or Cal or somewhere is applying with a 3.75 GPA driven by things like "Tech professors took great pleasure in making the questions on the tests way harder than they needed to be. They were not...

When I lived in Texas it was astonishing how well Texas A&M did at converting non-alum parents into football fans. Maybe it helps that it's somewhat cult-ish for the students too, and definitely a bit of a choice compared to going to another in-state school? But GT could tap into some similar...

When GT went to the Final Four after the 2003 season I had an exam scheduled the Monday of the championship game. I bought tickets and traveled anyway figuring that I’d figure something out. They ended up making professors move exams from that day but I don’t think they announced it until like...