Brian Soudi

You will better understand college sports when you understand this: It is the main marketing and fundraising program for the schools. Donations, applications and brand recognition all go up with football and basketball success. So it’s an investment, not an extra-curricular.

Officially more affordable to go watch Paul Skenes vs Elly De La Cruz than watching 13U baseball. #GrowTheGame

@Ech0_Vane @AlexHollings52 Unless you’re embedded with these military folks — in their many bases/posts, how do you know if their performance is incredible and their professionalism A+?

Agree mostly. I think the US military are doing an incredible job with the missions/tasks they were assigned, especially with how complex modern war can be, A+ professionalism on display. Some like playing up the Iranian 'wins' for some reason, and as you mentioned, militarily, they're not much. I think the biggest problem I'VE had with the other coverage is that it's usually from folks that have little experience with the navy or air force, or military in general so they'll start posting stuff that has SOME truth in there, but they spoil it with the rest of the non-sense. We also see very little from the Iranian civilian side just because the gov turned off their internet for a month...

It seems like Iran coverage exists in 2 separate realities: one where the US is dominating the battlefield, and another, where Iran’s expertise in asymmetric conflict is paying strategic dividends the US is struggling to counter. The thing is… both things can be true at once.

I don't want to read this entire well written, photographed, and edited piece about journalism's grim AI future that took a ton of work and talent. Grok, can you summarize it for me in 280 characters so I can pretend to have it read it wsj.com/business/media…

@eaglesfan9181 @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 You’re certainly entitiled to this opinion. But the govt/NLRB disagrees. The courts disagree (including the Supreme Court). And a large proportion of schools disagree. If a student can be paid for working the cafeteria, they can be paid for playing a sport.

@WinslowAaron @soudipop @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 I don’t know how many times I have to fucking say it. Go be in a commercial, I don’t have an objection to that. End pay for play from schools to players. They aren’t employees.

90% of college football players at the major D1 level will never in their life make as much as they make in college. 18-22 is their prime earnings years. Calling them student athletes is just as silly as calling coaches "teacher coaches."

@eaglesfan9181 @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 and by the way, ther schools NCAA ABSOLUTELY WERE RESTRICTING WHAT YOU COULD GET FROM A THIRD PARTY. That's the whole point of "NIL" reform, dude. That was found to be ILLEGAL. It's why we have "collectives" with black bags.

@WinslowAaron @soudipop @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 They weren’t restricting what you could get from a third-party. They were trying to maintain amateurism. Avoid the secret black bag. No that isn’t an employee contract.

@eaglesfan9181 @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 If the students working the cafeteria or library can be employees AND recieve scholarships, so can athletes. So, again, why don't you want them compensated at market rate like every other worker in America?

@soudipop @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 Because they’re not employees. They are students. Here is a simple fix. If you want to be a pro, go play pro football in the NFL, the arena league, Canadian league, AFL. If you want to be an amateur play college football

@eaglesfan9181 @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 Judges decided this because how the schools were running athletics with athletes WAS ILLEGAL. Here's the real question: schools get millions for FB and BB. Why do you want all those million$ to go to coaches and athletic directors and stadium contractors and not the players?

@WinslowAaron @soudipop @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 Schools didn’t decide. Judges did. And now we’re in this Helter skelter version. Easy fix. If you wanna play professional football, play in the NFL, play in Arena league, played in the Canadian football league, AFL. Colleges for amateurs. Easy fix.

@eaglesfan9181 @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 If it has nothing to do with the players, why do big schools have more spectators and ratings than D3 ones? Before, players got scholarships and shoes; today, many are getting up to million$. This is the market showing they were ripped off before.

@soudipop @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 It wasn’t built on the “workers”. It was built by the fans of the university, basically the student bodies. It didn’t matter if Bob or Sam was in the helmet. They were fans of the team. And spare me they “only got” compensation.

@WinslowAaron @eaglesfan9181 @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 No, they are OK with it for themselves, but not for these athletes. Many reasons why this is.

@soudipop @eaglesfan9181 @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 I have no problem with college athletes getting paid. It is merely a direct result of free market capitalism. People that think their sports viewing is some how reduced because now the kid in the helmet is making money are delusional They just hate capitalism, but don't know it

@jt939913 @PSniz11e @BudElliott3 Even with the players being more fairly compensated, more people are watching college sports than ever before. Let’s be honest — people cheer the logo, don’t care if QB1 is in his finance class or the gym.

@soudipop @PSniz11e @BudElliott3 I’m only talking about sports. The NFL and CFB have grown YOY… cfb will become a professional league and we will see the effects, good or bad. I’m gen z, trust me I know viewership of other sectors are down, I’m the one contributing to these stats😂

@WinslowAaron @eaglesfan9181 @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 This is BS. For years, coaches made million$. ADs made million$. Facility contractors made billion$. ESPN: billion$. On workers who were given about $80,000 in “education” some sweats and shoes. Oh, and no injury insurance.

@eaglesfan9181 @soudipop @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 Yep. And that day is coming. Capitalism will eventually destroy everything.

@eaglesfan9181 @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 If they hit all these criteria, then according to the law, yes. (Let me know the clubs where I get paid!)

@soudipop @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 So if we just gave cash to high school players, the same parameters exist. But also to people in any club

@eaglesfan9181 @WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 Sir, they really are employees.

@WinslowAaron @csATLdawg @BudElliott3 Being sold for millions of dollars or being sold for a dollar doesn’t change them to being an employee. And that’s been my point all along the only thing that changed has been the dollar figures around the game

@jt939913 @PSniz11e @BudElliott3 Haha. Yeah, no. Viewership of most things is way down. some sports are way up. like 9 of the top watched broadcasts are nfl games.

@PSniz11e @BudElliott3 Viewership across everything has shot up as a greater and greater percentage of the human population has internet and phone access. Like on YouTube getting a million views use to mean something, now it’s pretty common. A lot of new fans have flooded the cfb market, we will see ig

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@robolivermd @JamieBoggsJD I mean, sure, as not all 308 d1 schools can be winnners. So schools gotta make some decisions. But not at the expense of the top schools. Or top athletes.

@soudipop @JamieBoggsJD The Saban effect is not really scalable.

Only 6% of D1 schools are profitable. FBS schools median revenue LOSS is $25M. If you’re a tennis, track, fencing coach or the many sports D1 schools support to give athlete opportunities and you became “rich” off of your job, drop me a comment because I don’t know any.

@SALES_720 @JamieBoggsJD The Supreme Court disagrees with you:

@JamieBoggsJD The exploited athlete argument is ridiculous. What is GCU spending per athlete, all in? (Alabama is $190k per year, per athlete. Tennis to FB).

@GregsTheBull @MacrodosingPod @BarstoolChief @ConnerHKnapp The moron here is the one who doesn’t understand the politics that this tax would have to go through the House and Senate, and neither would approve this.

@MacrodosingPod @BarstoolChief @ConnerHKnapp You need to realize one of Kamala's policies was taxing unrealized capital gains on assets that would've destroyed the economy, forced people out of their homes and crash the stock market. If you don't understand this, then you're a moron and should never comment on politics.

.@BarstoolChief and @ConnerHKnapp voice their disappointment on Trump's presidency and the lack of candidates to vote for in the future

@tampy77 @CoachDoty Is there really a world where the Michigans and Alabamas should be in the same org, same rules, same aims as #308?

That’s like chasing the pot of gold over the rainbow. Only 68 teams make the NCAA men’s basketball tournament let alone the sweet 16. In FBS 12 teams make the playoffs. Better to look at the entire picture which includes the balance of 308 D1 teams in entirety and the associated financials. It’s not a “rosy” picture by any means. Expenses out pacing revenue with already negative profitability.

Why invest in college sports? College presidents, board members, athletic directors, admissions offices, and fundraising teams know that successful athletics enrolls students, fills beds, and builds new buildings. Florida Gulf Coast’s admissions applications increased over 27% after their Sweet 16 run. Visits on the FGCU admissions page jumped from 2,280 to 42,793. Butler’s applications nearly tripled after two Final Fours while the university was able to build, expand, and upgrade $255M in campus facilities including a business school and a new arts center. George Mason’s admissions office inquiries went up 350% after their Final Four run in 2006 including a 54% increase in out-of-state applications. In the 1980’s, John Chaney’s men’s basketball program changed the landscape of Temple University as a whole helping increase freshmen enrollment by 18.1% and transfer enrollment by 6.1%. Nick Saban’s football program helped propel the University of Alabama. Between 2007 and 2022, enrollment at Alabama increased by 51%, from 25,580 to 38,645 students. In that same time, the college more than tripled its endowment, surpassing a record $1 billion in 2022. It also has nearly doubled its physical footprint, adding an engineering quad and state-of-the-art dorms and recreational facilities.