Shorter Arizona AD Greg Byrne: Before you talk about football players being exploited, don’t forget to count the money we spend flying all of our student-athletes to away games!
(h/t Andy Schwarz) (Or to put it another way…)
Shorter Arizona AD Greg Byrne: Before you talk about football players being exploited, don’t forget to count the money we spend flying all of our student-athletes to away games!
(h/t Andy Schwarz) (Or to put it another way…)
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
Plus the money on uniforms, equipment, medical care, etc. I mean these kids practically have a silver spoon put into their mouth, how dare they act like they can barley afford anything.
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(end sarcasm)
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College football and basketball sold their soul to the TV$ and now they are having to give up a chunk of their butt too. Ouch!
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Considering the astronomical amounts of money being made, you’d think they could come up with more creative bullshit than plane tickets.
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“Only 3,200 miles round-trip between UA and UW.”
“It’s Wednesday. Time to get on the bus, men.”
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My employer also spends a lot of travel money on me each year. Per NCAA member logic, it is strange that they still pay me a salary even with all those travel perks. It’s as if travelling is a part of my job yet I still have expenses back home that require a salary to pay them.
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So if they start getting a stipend will he start charging them for air fare and hotel stays?
Schedule all home games with cupcakes then, that is cheaper at ~$1 M a game.
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One word: “Stupid.”
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