Is College Football becoming a bubble?

[kired]

I clearly meant per contract when I said "a guy signing a $20+ million contract". There are plenty of guys I've never heard of making $20 million over 4-5 years.

The $20 million statement & 300th ranked weren't meant to be talking about he same guy. Sorry if it sounded that way.

I'm sure I overestimated how much the 300th ranked guy makes. But assume the average MSU message board poster makes $75,000 / year. In a 40 year career and ignoring inflation / interest rates - there were over 200 players making $3,000,000 last year. Lavoy Allen made $3,000,000 last year pulling down 5 rpg and scoring 5ppg as a part time starter.

 

[Ishmael]

I misunderstood. Sorry.

 

[dawgs.sixpack]

They have a ton of money coming off the books after this year(Rivera, Jeter, Pettitte, Youk, and arod will be off the books for at least next season). After that his contract starts clicking down some. And of all of those, the only one I expect back is Jeter, and it will be a smaller contract

then let them spend hundreds of millions on 30 something free agents who might give them 2-3 good years before easting up millions while being nothing more than an avg player.

if the yankees want to be set up to win championships in the long term, they need to spend a lot of that money on good talent evaluators, foreign scouting, and signing guys like cano to long term deals 5 or 6 years ago through like their age 33 season, then letting him walk. as of now, they are gonna give him a 7 or 8 year deal worth $20+M/year and only mayb 2-3 of those years will he "eran" that kinda deal.

 

[engie]

then let them spend hundreds of millions on 30 something free agents who might give them 2-3 good years before easting up millions while being nothing more than an avg player.

if the yankees want to be set up to win championships in the long term, they need to spend a lot of that money on good talent evaluators, foreign scouting, and signing guys like cano to long term deals 5 or 6 years ago through like their age 33 season, then letting him walk. as of now, they are gonna give him a 7 or 8 year deal worth $20+M/year and only mayb 2-3 of those years will he "eran" that kinda deal.

The Yankees aren't going to spend the money how they did under Steinbrenner. That much has been established and widely discussed. They want to be under the luxury tax cutoff -- and they want it to happen immediately...

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Yankee Bruiser is here to save the day!

 

[BogeyGolfer.sixpack]

Great point...I did not buy season tickets this year because I have

way too much **** to do other than drive to Starkville and put up with BS of tailgating etc..when I can grill/drink all day long at home ( HD) and watch all games on TV. I usually pick a couple of away games and a couple of home games to attend. Does this make me a bad fan? Probably so... I think the new playoff system will help CFB for short term, but I have noticed a major decline with bowls in recent years. Most people don't care about attending bowls unless it's been a while since said team has appeared in a bowl game or it's an attractive match up. I use Florida v Louisville as an example...UF fans and players did not want to be in that bowl game and it showed. Most State fans were uninspired about returning to Jacksonville and it showed. I don't think we will see any major shake-up's withing the next 20 years or so, just more money involved. People are too emotionally attached to college football, that's what separates it from pro-sports.