In the past few days, college football has often appeared in sports news, which frees people from stories about athletes’ mental health and instead discusses purely psychological issues. The biggest story involved the Oklahoma and Texas transfer meeting from Big 12 to the SEC, which immediately established a thriving betting pool, that is, in the league championship game, the two teams are playing against Alabama. How many points will be lost in a state game.
Although it claims to be different, professional football is very consistent with other major sports in terms of training players to enter the top league. Baseball has various minor leagues, basketball has G league, hockey has AHL and ECHL, and football has SEC. The only difference is the salary arrangement. Given that college players are now free to authorize and promote their image, the school breathes easier because it means they have to distribute much less money under the table.
The motivation for Texas and Oklahoma to join the SEC is-surprise! – money. Part of the SEC world is its own TV network, and the weird thing is that it broadcasts sports events instead of nasty educational content. SEC network is coming Reached an agreement with ESPN It is reported that some 300 million US dollars per year The money of Mickey and Minnie pours into the vault of the SEC school. Can’t imagine why Texas and Oklahoma would want that meal ticket.
It gets better in the world of high rollers. Texas has its own television network (Longhorn Network) and currently has an agreement with ESPN. The conversation is The money ESPN still owes Longhorn Network will make up for the money that Texas and Oklahoma owed them to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for this meeting.According to records, the total amount of the 20-year agreement reached by ESPN and Longhorn Network is equal to one year of the SEC Network-ESPN alliance. Mathematics is easy.
Ironically, Big 12 has a protocol With ESPN, understandably crying for fouls and sent to the network Stop and Termination Letter Accuse ESPN of trying to lure other teams from Big 12 to seek wealth elsewhere. ESPN responded to the label of the allegations balderdash and foldersAnd added that it was too busy deleting all online references to Maria Taylor because they were such a despicable act.
You have it. The SEC continues its chosen NFL Jr. route, but there are no salary caps or labor issues. Other meetings and schools can only grit their teeth, hoping that as national attention and increasingly crazy cash are thrown away like confetti in the student area of the stadium, the locals will still support their team.
This should be the content of college sports. But I’m not stupid enough to pretend to be so.
