Cody Campbell op-ed

[THookem]

 

[JMarquette]

9 minutes ago, THookem said:

 

“College sports is broken because of rich people, so to fix it, I will pay a softball player $1,000,000 a year, and pay a left tackle who can’t block $750,000 per year”

[Bunk Moreland]

“A flagrant power grab by the most powerful names and entities in college sports”

does this dude have any self-awareness whatsoever, or is he really just that brazenly cynical?

[Bunk Moreland]

“College athletics are a public trust” “college sports has never been a private fiefdom”

*proceeds to pump millions of private dollars into his own little fiefdom*

[Bunk Moreland]

“Universities claim they have to follow the money out of self-preservation but their decisions are creating a financial monopoly”

*proceeds to follow the money to buy all the best recruits, thereby creating at Tech something approaching a financial monopoly*

[Bunk Moreland]

Interesting that he spends so much time appealing to patriotism, the constitution, the importance of college athletics as a fundamentally American institution and then proceeds to describe college sports as a public good that should be effectively owned by the state. And his solution is collectivized pooling of media rights. I’m not commenting on the legitimacy of his proposed solution (which is stupid), but the hypocrisy is just stunning. College sports is a business that generates billions of dollars in revenues. To suggest that it is a public good is one of the most bizarre things I think I’ve ever seen someone posit on X, and that is saying something.

Edited 45 minutes ago by Bunk Moreland