MacroV wrote:
Another big difference with soccer or any team sport: You don’t need that many athletes to have an event, and you don’t need every big name - sometimes you don’t need ANY big name.
Soccer is 11 v. 11 - 22 people on the field and a few reserves. A track meet needs at least a dozen events, at least eight people in each. So at least 96 athletes, maybe more. Even modest expenditures for athlete expenses, appearance fees, and prize money add up. And in a team sport, people are cheering for their team. In track if you have a womens 400H without SML, or a mens 400H without all of Benjamin, Warholm, and Dos Santos - it’s second best.
And I don’t know the going rates for appearance fees, but say Noah Lyles gets $100k for a DL race. He runs for 10-20 seconds. An NBA player gets $100k and plays a two-hour game.
What, the phvck, are you talking about?!
The best nba players make $600,000 per game!
