Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernard Morris
anyone who doesn't understand the magnitude of Division_I#Football_Bowl_Subdivision|top-level NCAA football doesn't really follow American sports: It's a bigger sport, by money and viewership, than many, ''many'' so-called professional leagues in other countries (save for top-level soccer).  Here are some facts and figures to prove it (and help my co-editors in the future): A top level football school make major revenue: http://newsok.com/article/3166059 Texas ($60.9 million), Michigan ($50.4 million), Florida ($48.2 million), etc.  The 44 schools from BCS conferences that played in a bowl game in 2007 http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/31/commentary/sportsbiz/index.htm?section=money_commentary_columnsportsbiz had combined revenue of $1.3 billion.  No one can credibly dispute that Texas, Ohio State or USC football isn't financially (as well as in media coverage) bigger than a Greek professional basketball team like Olympiacos B.C., yet those players are somehow okay --in fact, the entire Euroleague (not merely the Greek professional league) has a revenue of http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/911634.html less than one hundred million.  Let's compare the big boys of EU soccer: Looking at German soccer, the top-league Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga had http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=540547&&cc=5901 2006/07 revenues of €1.3 billion ($1.7b). Looking at UK soccer: While top-level Premier League is obviously a major league with exceptionally high revenue (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=540547&&cc=5901 €2.2 billion ($2.8b)), Football League Championship|The Championship clubs' revenues in 2005/6 were http://www.footballeconomy.com/archive/archive_2007_jun_01.htm £318m ($470m) at an average of £13m ($20m) per club (Football League One|League One for the same year totaled http://www.footballeconomy.com/archive/archive_2007_jun_01.htm £102m, Football League Two|League Two http://www.footballeconomy.com/archive/archive_2007_jun_01.htm £61m).  Stepping slightly away from football, the NCAA has a http://www.ncaachampionmagazine.org/Championship%20Magazine/ChampionMagazineStory/2008/Fall/Articles/tabid/94/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/191/Default.aspx $6.2 billion, 11-year media contract.  Thus, discounting a top-level college football player for the reason that he plays in "college" and not the NFL doesn't really meet the idea that was meant with .  I am not extending this to other NCAA sports or football levels (though top-level men's basketball could probably argue just as easily), but for top-level NCAA football, the line must be drawn
— User:Bobak, 16:16, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
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