Chapter 1548: Not Enough for a Bottle of Wine
The NCAA's exorbitant profits are no joke. Not counting their other advertising sponsorships, just the nine-year television rights for their basketball tournaments alone sold for $8.8 billion! That was five years ago, and the price four years from now is unimaginable! With 23 tournaments in total, just imagine how much they're making.
What's even more ridiculous is that their players were purchased for 'zero dollars' - without a single cent in salary.
Because the NCAA is an amateur league, student athletes have no income other than their sports scholarships, and even have to pay for injury treatment out of their own pockets.
In the US, the vast majority of athletes, especially black athletes, are in dire poverty, with countless players hailing from the slums. Why do they train so hard? They hope for a chance to enter the professional league and earn money quickly!
So for a long time, many talented athletes would not go to college, would not graduate from high school, or would go directly to the professional league to make money.
However, this would affect the NCAA's ratings, so the NCAA came up with a solution and directly formulated new regulations: athletes who want to join the professional league must have been in college for one year or be 19 years old or have graduated from high school for one year.
In other words: you have to work for the NCAA for free for at least a year or even longer before you can enter the professional league - the NACC's influence in the United States is astonishingly high.
Of course, there are also those who are eager to make money and do not go to college. They will choose to go to foreign professional leagues to hone their skills. For example, Mudiay, who was once known as the "strongest high school student in American basketball", went to the Guangdong team of the Daxia Professional Basketball League to earn some money after graduating from high school.
However, there are also disadvantages to doing so, that is, the training and the like cannot be kept up, and even if you return to the NBA in the future, you will not be able to adapt to the rhythm of the game there. Mudiay is an example. The "strongest high school student in the United States" at that time was lost in the crowd after returning to the NBA from the summer.
These regulations are extremely unreasonable, but American and Canadian universities, with the exception of some quack schools, are basically all part of the NCAA. Who would dare to offend such a behemoth? The unfortunate ones are these young athletes who are doing free labor.
However, even with such a strict system, professional teams or universities will try their best to bribe players for their favorite players. For example, the head coach of the University of Memphis, formerly the famous NBA player "Penny" Anfernee Hardaway, once paid $11,500 to move Wiseman's family to Memphis in order to recruit high school student Wiseman. When the NCAA found out about this, a series of penalties were imposed, and no one was spared from the players, coaches, or schools.
It's not easy to make it to a professional football team. The NCAA is divided into two divisions: the top division has 10 leagues and 130 teams, while the second division has 126 teams. And how many players are drafted each year by the National Football League? 224! That's less than one spot per team! So many college star players don't even have a chance to make the pros.
The fact that a professional league team took notice of Fall and poached him early on shows that he's quite capable... or maybe the Cincinnati Bengals are just too bad and too far away...
When it comes to playing basketball, who wouldn't want to play in a big city with a strong track record? When Yi Jianlian first entered the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks wanted him, but he refused and opted for Dallas instead. After all, there wasn't much of a market in a small city like Milwaukee. Small-city teams need to resort to other tactics to acquire the players they want.
Bribing players in advance like Dolph did is really the most common method.
Of course, that assumes you don't get caught. Why do so many crime films on my side end with the criminals going unpunished? Their perspective is, "As long as you don't get caught, it's not a crime."
Last night, Fall and his buddies showed up at a party, got into a brawl, and even pulled a gun! It was all captured on video. After all, Fall is still an NCAA player. If this footage were released, Fall would likely be suspended. And if the investigation uncovers the deal between him and Dolph, it would essentially mean Fall wouldn't even make it to the pros for years.
Dolph can wait for this matter, but their team can't! Moreover, he has paid so much money, if there is no good result, he will have to pay the money himself! He must solve this problem for both public and private reasons.
He first used his connections to delay the Houston police, and then wanted to find Xiao Peng and others to suppress the matter.
Xiao Peng actually felt quite sympathetic towards these young players. What were they training so hard for? Wasn't it just to make money quickly? And then their future was ruined just at the last moment? So he really wanted to help them.
But five thousand dollars?
"Five thousand yuan?" Elsa curled her lips and said, "Are you scolding my boss? This isn't even enough for a bottle of wine for my boss!"
After hearing this, Zeke Brightman frowned and said, "Elsa, are all you Europeans so petty? Didn't we just have a fight yesterday? It's been a whole night and you're still so stingy? We've all come here to apologize!"
After hearing this, Elsa said disdainfully, "Don't you have a cell phone? Can't you go online? Check the price of that bottle of champagne my boss gave you yesterday!"
Zeke Brightman was stunned when he heard this, but van der Laupe said, "No need to check. Here are the shopping receipts from yesterday. The tax refund hasn't been processed yet. You can check it yourself."
She pulled a shopping ticket from her bag and handed it to Zeke Brightman, who took it, looked at it skeptically, and then jumped up from the sofa. "So, a bottle of champagne for $6,300?"
Elsa curled her lips and said, "Give my boss five thousand dollars? Aren't you making fun of my boss? I think you have no idea what real financial resources are. Our boss can buy 32 teams like yours at once!"
Now Zeke Brightman and his group were all dumbfounded.
How many teams are there in the NFL? Isn't it 32? The combined market capitalization of all 32 NFL teams is nearly $83 billion!
How dare you brag!
"Um..." Dolph blinked: "Then how can you agree to our conditions?"
Seeing Xiao Peng remained silent, Zeke Brightman hurriedly said, "Xiao, if Forle is sanctioned, wouldn't that give that old bastard Ty Brock his wish?"
Xiao Peng thought for a moment. "Well, Jike, you hit the nail on the head. This matter can be big or small, and it's not a big deal for me. Agreeing to your terms doesn't really matter, but I need you to agree to two conditions. Don't worry, this has nothing to do with money. What Elsa said just now was absolutely right. Buying the entire NFL is no problem for me."
"...Tell me what you want."
Damn, your little brother dares to brag and you really dare to admit it!
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