NFL lockout is the best thing for college education

Does the NFL lockout have college professors rejoicing?


In a recent article from ESPN titled "Pac-10 announces ESPN/Fox TV deal" the Pac-10 -- soon to officially become the Pac-12 -- has agreed to a 12-year television contract with ESPN and Fox that will more than triple its media rights fees and be the most valuable for any conference in college sports.

The contract, which will begin with the 2012-13 season, will be worth more than $225 million per year -- or $2.7 billion over the life of the deal, Sports Business Daily and The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

This got me to thinking...

With NFL owners using their billions of dollars to prohibit the happiness of the American people, NCAA football looks like the only football we will have for the 2011-2012 season.

This significantly drove up the price of media rights fees to televise these college conferences. With all that money going to college conferences, 3x more, this means that 3x more money is going to colleges than before.

How much of that money translates to the classroom is unknown, but it wouldn't be a far cry to say that after this deal was made public, chemistry professors in the Pac-10 probably got the OK from their university's president to put in orders for some beakers.



How do you think the NFL lockout will effect education, or America in general?


~Z