Just following up on the SMU to ACC story.
Let's just convert the major college teams into Under 22 pro leagues. Make it official that the boosters own the team.
MSN
(this refers to the top booster who put together the package to make up the $200 million that SMU agreed to forego in media money)
When Miller met with the top boosters to seal the move to the ACC, the combined net worth of the room was believed to be about $15 billion.
“It’s a couple hundred million dollars,” Miller said. “I’m not losing sleep over it.”
Let's once and for all time get rid of the "It's all amateurs, really!" bullshit.