{"id":2174,"date":"2011-11-12T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:20","slug":"fall-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/11\/fall-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State had the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/12\/29\/news\/companies\/college_football_dollars\/index.htm\">third highest take from college football<\/a> in 2010, after only Texas and Georgia.\u00a0 What were Penn State&#8217;s football revenues?\u00a0 A mere $70.2 million.\u00a0 Its profits were $50.4 million, implying that they spent nearly $20 million on the football program.\u00a0 Of that, coach and abuse-condoner Joe Paterno&#8217;s salary alone was <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5857629\/joe-paternos-annual-compensation-is-200000-higher-than-the-psu-presidents-and-other-grotesqueries\">over $1 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the average profit for each of the 68 teams that play in a major conference was $15.8 million, or over $1 million per game.\u00a0 Clearly, there&#8217;s big money in college football.\u00a0 And whenever big money enters the game, values get shoved to the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>If I were President, Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader, I would enact a law limiting the amount of money that can be paid to a college for television rights.\u00a0 This would get to the heart of the matter.\u00a0 Fans who would object should take a time-out and get their own values in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State had the third highest take from college football in 2010, after only Texas and Georgia.\u00a0 What were Penn State&#8217;s football revenues?\u00a0 A mere $70.2 million.\u00a0 Its profits were $50.4 million, implying that they spent nearly $20 million on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/11\/fall-madness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}