NoSaint

you are forgetting about the ones that would pay double to attend just to prove a point.

Washington football team has been used by various media for a few years now

What do you think the balance sheet on 65-130 looks like? Illinois is #32 out of 130 so the 75th percentile By the middle of the 130 D1 programs you aren’t always in the black.

I don’t largely disagree with the broad strokes here but the level of hyperbole got a bit out of hand. Even after dialing it I think you are high balling it a fair amount. on my phone so not deep analysis here but grabbed two fast articles and 1 year was sited as nearly half the power 5 broken even or worse. Another year had 5 of the top 65 in the red. obviously there’s a ton of grey space in how revenues and costs are calculated but what I’m getting at is that outside the top 50ish teams you arent seeing those profits regularly. Heck, outside the top 5-10 it starts to drop quickly with the top 5 carrying 50-100m in profits each and 15-20 all being 30-35m. Not small potatoes but you are talking a very small slice of schools in your argument. yup. And that’ll see some dip... but won’t disappear completely without games. Boosters still want top prospects in the pipeline etc... and the prestige of being the big man around a town like auburn (to use a recent favorite of yours)

football puts more in than it takes at many big schools but there’s definitely a tipping point where that doesn’t hold true as you work down the rankings. And those schools still have English departments.

it’s entertainment provided by unpaid college students. it’s ok to just cancel at some point. Many of these schools aren’t even doing in person classes.

Also highly compensated career vs student athlete

Yea- 19 year old should play like 24 games in under a year

PAC 12 will likely make the call too i think you might see a few schools, perhaps even conferences, play but it’ll be very limited and fast to shut down at any risk.

so I think the verbiage around WFH is where I get a little rankled. In a past post you mentioned that if you could, you should... but now it’s a luxury. I don’t think going to an office in NYC is a huge risk, but I’d venture the guess that the overwhelming majority of employees could work from home. if you say they should WFH if they can, than why is there anything wrong with the nfl getting a little pushback from their workers?

on the bright side, it’s absolute minutiae at that level.

agreed.

bingo. getting in on a couple lucky bounces in a weak division doesn’t move the needle for me if I’m in qb purgatory. if I’m a solid team that wouldn’t need tooooo many breaks to make noise in the playoffs I’d take that

and my point is that it really might not have to ha- I’m mostly just ribbing you... though that does kind of make the grumpy old man schtick even more... well... I’m not sure the best word.

Ok, boomer

While they do generally need to set up the work flow for sake of structuring a business...just because they declared their plan it doesn’t mean it’s a good one. Plenty of mid to senior managers have very little concrete data on best practices and simply revert to how it has been done as the safe “don’t rock the boat” way to do it. In this case that boat may just be not wanting to look bad in front of people in the 32 other buildings- which wouldn’t be a good reason. I don’t know their individual tasks though so really I’m just railing against the assumption that it’s by default right because the employer said so and they should be grateful to work. Odds are general nfl office jobs could be overwhelmingly accomplished at home though, with quite limited time and titles in office.

which in many work environments is pretty normal right now. More than a few office places are going the extra mile for safety and not bringing people back in unless they can provide a reason you are needed in person. It’s ok to press your employer on stuff like this. I know employees rights aren’t a thing to many many Americans... but “the players have to show up” isn’t a great reason for why sally in accounting can’t WFH any longer. If she is truly needed and they’ve taken the reasonable precautions that’s different. Also your assertion that the general rule is you are more productive in the office is not much of a rule. Many studies have found various roles accomplish more from home. Depends on the job and the person but broad strokes put WFH ahead for quite a few positions.

some of my very least productive days were spent in a cubicle and frankly, just because many employers treated their employees worse doesn’t mean nfl employees can’t ask for more.

They don’t want these guys thinking they are low risk to contract because riskier behavior immediately follows

or heaven forbid it’s a guy out 4-6 months. Could miss all camp and part of the season instead of being back in April for team visits pre draft and a full offseason with the team its essentially year 1 shaq but would actually drop because it’s known/expected and a quarter of his cost control contract blown.

And the risk of a torn ACL or some lengthy but not terribly serious injury blowing their rookie season, instead of just their combine

I always give the young guns a heaping helping of praise if they are for real working. Often more than deserved but like to make folks feel good and not an ounce of insecurity in my own value

I’m happy you didn’t hear what I thought!

Or good natured joking about himself and beasley that’ll be taken too seriously

I don’t believe you can. i don’t know if you think that may sometimes be a problem. Or if you think sometimes they do use inappropriate force.