On Thursday night, Ohio State backup quarterback Joe Burrow pointed out the irony of NCAA rules compared to what athletic departments generate. Burrow tweeted a link that cited a recent Wall Street Journal piece that values OSU’s athletic department at $1.5 billion:
Buckeyes QB points out irony of Ohio State’s athletic department being ‘worth $1.5 billion’
He’s got a point here.
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What Burrow is referring to here is the NCAA rules regarding impermissible benefits — athletes are prohibited from accepting free meals, gifts, or things really, of any kind. Right on cue, Fox Sports’ Doug Gottlieb chimed in on Burrow’s tweet:
Burrow didn’t stay silent, either:
The WSJ article on OSU’s value cites an analysis by Ryan Brewer, who is an associate professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus.
The debate of modifying NCAA rules (along with paying players in general) will continue to be a hot-button issue among fans, media members, and players alike. What Burrow does point out is one of the concepts that has gone along with this argument for some time — the fact that programs like OSU are generating massive amounts of money while the student-athletes don’t get a penny from that revenue.
Burrow then had to tell Twitter that he needed to “get back to being a student” for the rest of the night:
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