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That's true, but that's also a decision NASCAR made. I can't reasonably argue that NASCAR didn't intend for charters to be an owned asset because that was the very purpose of introducing them to begin with. The complaint is that the NextGen car is the intellectual property of NASCAR and cannot...

Why?

My point is that even in the most extreme circumstances I can imagine, it doesn't actually matter that much to fans. As far as what actually happens, I don't pretend to know.

Assume for a moment they "break up NASCAR": -If NASCAR has to spin the tracks off.....so what? They were independent until 2019 anyhow and reported their finances publicly because they were public entities trading on NASDAQ. -If the tracks have to make money independently and aren't as...

I don't think it is possible for NASCAR to be affected by that degree. I do think, however, that it might be within the realm of reality that we'd see things like midweek or off season special events promoted by RTA and better collaboration between NASCAR and other sanctioning bodies who might...

I don't know enough about hockey but that makes sense in the context of how many young hockey players are now coming of age in places like Dallas. They and baseball both also have the benefit of developing economies producing elite talent that they can just nab, which has led to both leagues...

I very seriously doubt Biffle or Edwards decided only post retirement that they needed helicopters. Doesn't make sense given the expense involved to me but unless someone has evidence to the contrary, I'm gonna assume that they got aircraft for the same reason that countless other race car...

Hamlin saying "I know NASCAR operates in bad faith but I did it anyways" isn't helpful at trial. Kind of like the endless variations of "NASCAR is the best and if you want to make real money in racing you have to be in NASCAR, there's no alternative" isn't actually a refutation of what the...

College football - not the NFL, the college game - was the second biggest sport by attendance and public interest for the first half of the 20th century. It was only after the 1955 NFL championship game that anyone seriously considered them peers, and obviously in the post-1970s era the NFL is...

Baseball for sure; hockey to a lesser extent. Basketball seems like it should be but the shoe money flowing through it keeps the whole development stream functioning. Football QBs are expected to be in QB camp in middle school it seems like, but other positions are different.

I work at a (public) university, and I understand very well how a D1 program at an R1 institution works. Sports aren't actually net drains and never have been because their effects show up elsewhere on the balance sheets. Revenue from merch sales doesn't go to athletics, it goes to the...

Absolutely. Sorry you were the one that initiated that discussion! 🤷‍♂️

Many, if not the vast majority, of stick and ball athletes in the big 4 sports grew up poor or lower middle class with sports being targeted as a method of escape from poverty. Compare that to racing: Brendan Gaughan or William Byron won't go broke unless the nation collapses.

What do the RSNs have to do with a discussion about NASCAR?

There are hundreds more pro athletes than there are fully professional NASCAR race car drivers. And again, they are unionized and have contracted to receive perks as part of their deal with the respective leagues because their contracts are inherently investments in them my their team. Meanwhile...

RCR might have a plane but I dunno who gets to ride on it. It's just a big categorical difference between how a multibillion dollar sports franchise goes about doing things and how a NASCAR team does. We're comparing unionized athletes where a single individual might make more than the entire...

Why would they take a private jet when there's a team plane that exists for the purpose of taking them and the entire support staff from place to place? It isn't their fault that Richard Childress doesn't spend money like that on his folks. You gonna tell me that it's "indentured servitude" to...

Most stick and ballers don't have a helicopter. They don't need one. They take a team plane places.

Well, if giving the athletes what they're owed makes college sports fall apart, what does that say about college sports in the first place? Sure suggests to me that it shouldn't have existed in the first place because it could only exist in an environment where the athletes had no rights and...

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