Interesting column re: future of college athletics

[Kinnick4Ever]

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...-looming-threats-college-athletics/469582002/

 

[anon_i8nzeu2gbf0ba]

The classic sportswriter Grantland Rice et al. were predicting that money would be the demise of college sports at least as far back as the 1930s. One example was the cover story of a now defunct "SPORT" magazine from 1936 my dad had in his collection.

Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban football over a century ago because it was "too dangerous."

Bottom line: "There is nothing new under the sun."

 

[Kinnick4Ever]

Hmmm. Maybe not (nothing new under the sun). But to assume college athletics in general doesn't face some very challenging days ahead may be a mistake. It explains in part why Barta is hiring a PR firm to assess future options, even though Iowa is in better financial shape than most.

 

[soybean]

The classic sportswriter Grantland Rice et al. were predicting that money would be the demise of college sports at least as far back as the 1930s. One example was the cover story of a now defunct "SPORT" magazine from 1936 my dad had in his collection.

Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban football over a century ago because it was "too dangerous."

Bottom line: "There is nothing new under the sun."

Exactly. I can recall in the ebarly 1960's when blacks were beginning to show up on college FB & BB rosters across the county that it was predicted that interest in those sports would decline and that both FB & BB would all but disappear across the south.

 

[CanadaHawk]

The classic sportswriter Grantland Rice et al. were predicting that money would be the demise of college sports at least as far back as the 1930s. One example was the cover story of a now defunct "SPORT" magazine from 1936 my dad had in his collection.

Teddy Roosevelt threatened to ban football over a century ago because it was "too dangerous."

Bottom line: "There is nothing new under the sun."

College sports is fairly new: late 19th century. Before then, barely existent.

 

[ctghawk]

There is a reckoning coming- 20 and 30 something's don't watch sports like baby boomers etc. And they don't buy tickets.
They do like fantasy sports, of course.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Wait until the colleges stop getting giant paydays in TV deals.

 

[DodgerHawki]

Wait until the colleges stop getting giant paydays in TV deals.

Yes if that happens that would bring about more change than any of the reasons cited in the article. Interest will continue to be there for sports, but the cash cow of the TV contracts has allowed for huge increases in pay for coaches, administrators and money spent on facilities.

 

[SoDakHawk]

Yes if that happens that would bring about more change than any of the reasons cited in the article. Interest will continue to be there for sports, but the cash cow of the TV contracts has allowed for huge increases in pay for coaches, administrators and money spent on facilities.

The buildings and facilities will remain, though debt servicing may be an issue in the future, the coaches and administrators will take a hit. So instead football coaches making generational wealth type money they get rolled back to under $1 million per season. It's not like the Sabans will take their talents elsewhere.