2. Even the money the athletic department makes is heavily subsidized. For example, the athletic department at Iowa got really pissed when Iowa City suggested they help pay for the extra cops they have to put on during football week. Do you think Michigan pays property tax on the Big House the way, say, GM does on one of its factories?

The people making the real money are the beer companies, the networks. Not the athletes (this is the part that grinds my ass), and not the schools. It doesn’t take economists to tell you that, it just takes arithmetic.

You may be right – but it will be one cold day in hell before the IRS is “allowed” to go after the NCAA – Congresscritters tend to run for re-election every 2 years, and since an increasing number of them are from “pro-college football” states, it’ll be a cold day in hell when UBIT is an actual issue.

Florida State was not offered due to a prevoius shafting given to the conference during the earlier expansion………..in other news the Big 10/11 has announced that they are wanting to expand to twelve teams but Mizzou refuses to run the Power I………..

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2006/10/05/tax-attorney-smackdown-ncaa-asked-to-justify-its-existence/

Slive has given us ESS-EEE-CEE Football For Gold.

UBTI is a bitch. Why, oh why, do you want to see that imposed on college athletics. Is the real fear not ESS EEE CEE SPEED but ESS EEE CEE CASH – or, the rich get richer and the poor go Div -AA.

Seriously though, the cash that football (and in some places baseball or basketball) generates pays for the “non-revenue” sports (which are called that for a reason).

What a crock of shit. For all the reasons I outlined two years ago when Bill Thomas was crawling up Brand’s ass with a microscope, there’s no cogent reason not to subject these programs to the unrelated business income tax.

Perfectly stated.

Oh, the multiple utilities of this phrase.

Crisis averted. My anus is standing down.

The reason that the SEC can garner more than ND is simple. ND has a declining fanbase, while the SEC has an increasing fanbase and better teams on the field. IMO, ND is on a slippery slope playing neutral site games that will be poorly attended and not compelling enough for decent ratings. They should have joined the Big 10/11, but I think they want an easy path to the BCS. That path has not been easy for Penn State since they joined in 1993.

For shame, Swindle. For shame.

Oh, and Myles Brand is a jerkoff.

And while big revenue numbers are OMG splashy, they don’t take into account the size and spending of an institution like the SEC or its member schools.

Your assesment of the UN is right on, however.