08-30-2013, 04:48 PM
Dharus Wrote:A lot of it is ticket sales and merchandise. Selling Texas is big money and its not just the alumni who are buying it (as shown by Strife's graph). Nebraska and OU have their own brand too but it still doesn't compare. Texas is still the big boy in the conference with OU second and who knows about third because its gotta be a big gap.
Nebraska and OU made more than Texas for all but the past several years they were all in the big 12 together. You are complaining about the gap between the big teams and small teams and then pretending like Texas is the only big team, patently absurd.
Plus that profit all goes to the sports program in general (to fund all the sports noone gives a fuck about). Texas and all the big boys have better facilities than other schools, but there is only so much money can buy you.... unless you are SMU in the 80s.
Quote:Why does it matter? Well, its sort of like professional sports. If they can spend more money on coaches, staff, buildings, equipment, then other schools will be a doormat every year because recruits are going to want the big school. Texas is practically the Yankees of the Big 12. All of that money also effects the other programs at the school since most of them are not revenue gaining sports. Then you add the media vultures to the mix. Its bad enough to listen to ESPN and conference networks because they are promoting TV ratings and mass markets vs football understanding. Big schools benefit while small schools go into the red or don't even bother hoping to suck whatever the big boys give them.
Okay, and your point? Texas is no different than Bama, or Florida, or Ohio State, or USC, or A&M, or any of the other handful of profitable programs in the country (which include Notre Dame despite its annual suckitude). Hating Texas because of inequity is just as stupid as hating the Yankees because of inequity. Blame the NCAA for puting this many disparate schools in one league. Blame the MLB for not having a salary minimum and allowing owners to field terrible noncompetitive teams *cough* lastros *cough* because revenue sharing makes it profitable. Can't blame the big football schools for having lots of students and fan base.
As I said, I wholeheartedly think we should cull out Division I football to 64 or even 32 teams and ban people from playing IAA games.