Tennessee to add 10 percent 'talent fee' to ticket prices to raise money to give to players

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The university makes money on all the new TV deals. The head coach & his staff make a bundle of money. The AD is making solid money, too.

None of the money the university & the football program gets from media rights can go directly into the the players' pockets, so let's make the 1 group of people who get absolutely no money from anything & burden them with paying the players.
 

Isn’t pay-to-play still an NCAA rule violation?
 

Pompous Elitist said:
This is what a $2.75M athletic director and his 266 person (non-coaching) staff will get done for you. ROI. They don’t just grow on trees.
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Tennessee just demonstrated how we can pay our players! Thank you! Just carve off 10% of existing ticket revenues and give it to players by calling it a “Talent fee”! I guess Tennessee can get away with charging their fans more because their team is doing better than it’s ever done before, but for the other 95% of college teams, their fans are already maxed out on what they are willing to give. We just needed to figure out how to give more to players and now that’s been solved. Awesome!!!!

I guess we’ll need to fire some of those 266 useless administrators or cancel the installation of the gold plated player toilets! I think the players will prefer the cold, hard cash!
 

SeaBee_Gopher said:
Tennessee just demonstrated how we can pay our players! Thank you! Just carve off 10% of existing ticket revenues and give it to players by calling it a “Talent fee”! I guess Tennessee can get away with charging their fans more because their team is doing better than it’s ever done before, but for the other 95% of college teams, their fans are already maxed out on what they are willing to give. We just needed to figure out how to give more to players and now that’s been solved. Awesome!!!!

I guess we’ll need to fire some of those 266 useless administrators or cancel the installation of the gold plated player toilets! I think the players will prefer the cold, hard cash!
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We’re all awaiting the House settlement drama and whether the NCAA folds on NIL regulation. Right now states down south are passing laws insulating them from NCAA NIL rules so we’re truly into uncharted territory anyway. Then you have NIL collectives fighting to stay viable. You have attorneys willing to sign ANYTHING to get their payday no matter how bad it is for college athletes. It’s a lowest common denominator cage fight of interested parties and like pro wrestling while entertaining it’s all pretty stupid. In the end the league rules restricting player contracts, eligibility, transfers are all illegal anyway, without congressional action or a major restructuring. No end in sight.

Yep, any village idiot can increase ticket prices to fund team payroll but econ 101 told me demand may soften. There is currently a whole lot of hoopla around their NIL QB and starting hot his year, and their fanbase is SEC crazy and maybe wealthy, or maybe into bad financial decisions so hey, maybe they’ll sell the place out even if they double ticket prices. They could be contenders.

What happens sometime in the unforeseeable future perhaps not that far away when the team stinks again, tickets go cold, and they’ve built up a massive organization that can’t make team payroll that week…then they have to do what they maybe should have done in the first place.

Maybe it works out. I don’t know. Popcorn ready.


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