/sci/ - Science & Math

Its a well known fact that most football programs are a net profit for the school.

Thats why they get fancy buses and stadiums but sports that make no money don't get jack shit, they make enough through ticket sales to cover their program and to contribute sizeably to the university

It suddenly dawns on me that many big-time football programs also tend to have shitty academics.

>likelihood of a sports person ever inventing or patenting anything
>likelihood of a sports person getting a job after a major injury
>likelihood that a sports person could teach anything other than sports
>Implying scientific related occupations don't gross as much
>Implying anyone here on this board would rather do something as mindless as coaching a sport for 4.2 million or any amount of money and would not rather shoot themselves in the head

>Bill Gates: $46 billion
U jelly?

But on a serious note... Those are pretty crappy incomes, actually, considering how unlikely it is to have one of those jobs. And even if you did, what idiot would be happy with a job like that?

>>2051286

actually i'm pretty sure the vast majority of football programs run at a net loss every year.

either way the average coach in a division one program doesn't make anywhere near that amount of money.

and even if they do, who cares?

Science
>You may not get paid much but the work you do will leave a lasting impression on civilization for as long as it lasts

Sports player
>You get paid a lot and get to be famous for awhile, but a few years after retirement no one will remember who you are nor will your life have meant anything

>>2051351
This.

Anyone who actually gets upset over this stuff is a moron. The people who are getting paid for that stuff have earned it, stop being a insecure faggot.

>>2051351
lol please enlighten me to what gives life meaning.

>>2051442
Making a lasting impact and being remembered.

>>2051455
and why exactly does that give life meaning?

>>2051467
Because I think it does.

>>2051350

Numbers I've heard are that there are four big universities that cover/profit off of their football programs.

>Implying anyone here on this board would rather do something as mindless as coaching a sport for 4.2 million or any amount of money and would not rather shoot themselves in the head

I agree with this anon. I can't stand football. One of my professors in uni was in admissions for underprivileged candidates (most of the football players fell into this category). He once trolled the class by saying "How does it make you feel knowing that the average combined SAT score of the football team is 800, and one of the players in particular scored a 600. You guys had to bust your ass to get here and your tuition is still being funneled into paying for their dinner."

Then he would smirk and watch the idiots tear each other apart.

>>2051494

honestly, i would DEFINITELY coach football for 4.2 million dollars. that would basically secure a comfortable standard of living for myself and my family for pretty much my entire life. i love intellectual stimulation but i could do that on the weekends. it's pretty unlikely that humanity would be taking a hit by my coaching and not working in a lab or something.

seriously dude... 4.2 MILLION dollars? thats a lot of fucking money.

>>2051531

Despite what it seems like, football coaches seem to be pretty fucking busy.

I'm not saying that my love of science is going to make a lasting impression on humanity or anything. I just really love what I do. I don't like football. Money won't change this.

It's not unheard of for scientific companies to make big money off of discoveries by selling them to big pharma/industry.

"Hoffmann-La Roche eventually bought the PCR and Taq patents from Cetus for $330 million, from which it may have received up to $2 billion in royalties"

Granted this was one big company to another but I have read stories of professors starting small companies and sitting on patents to sell. Not that it's what I want to do but I hear it's becoming a popular trend.

You got to look at the big picture. There are people out there getting paid 42 million dollars to tell grown men in spandex tights where to tacke each other.

Meanwhile, Nobel prize winners receive a mere 1.4 million.

Fuck the swapped values of society.