Pro Athletes: Cash flow Hungry?
Written by Yury Iofe
Does professional athlete make good money? You bet.
For informational purposes let's review the relationship between the NFL and NFL players. For 2009-10 average salary by team was from $1.4 million for Kansas City Chiefs to $2.47 million for the New York Giants.
The average player salary for the 2009-10 season using USA Today's numbers is $1,870,998
How does the NFL make money?
Major portion of the NFL's money comes from the TV deals. These contracts are usually for about 5 years, and every time they are renegotiated the price goes up. So do player's salaries.
There are a some other sources for NFL money: NFL licensed products, like jerseys, etc.
When the teams play there is the money people pay for seats, on average about 2.5 million per game. In addition tickets are sold at quantity discounts.
How are players get paid?
Every player on the roster gets paid, even if he doesn't play, but they get paid only during the play season. That means that in the out of season time there is no cash coming in.
As anyone else, players have deductions taken from their paychecks. There are taxes, insurance and benefit plan deduction, but even after all the deductions there is a substantial cash flow for a player during the season.
What if a player gets hurt?
The standard player contract calls for all injured players to be paid in full through the end of the season in which they are injured.
If a players injured during training camp, he will be compensated as well. If a player subsequently released, he can file a grievance against the club with the Players Association and teams usually reach injury settlements with players injured during training camp.
Restrictionsr
There are in addition some restriction that may be considered as a breach of contract for an NFL player
1. Participating in activities other than football that present a significant risk of personal injury.
2. NFL players require to always conduct themselves in a way that shows they are in recognitio
"of the fact that the success of professional football depends largely on public respect for and approval of those associated with the game."
Regardless of a substantial income, Many NFL stars have made headlines because of their financial problems. Let's analyze the situation.
Our research shows:
1. Players get paid only during the play season
2. In many cases players are not able to do short and long term financial planning, put aside some cash and save for the future.
3. Many players go out and buy expensive things: cars, houses, jewelry, etc. not always taking into consideration their real financial situation.
If there is a short term cash flow troubles, Universal Business Structured Solution can help pro athletes to solve their short term financial problems and provide them with a loan against their future contract payments.
Please visit our web site:
http://www.ubssolution.com/specialty%20financing.htmrn or contact Yury Iofe, Managing Partner, MBA for a free, no obligation evaluationr
Phone: 888-778-1437
yiofe@ubssolution.com
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About the Author
Mr. Iofe has over 18 years of extensive commercial lending and investment experience. He is a former AICPA Senior Editor. While working at the AICPA he was in charge of five yearly publications of Accounting Trends and Techniques- research of 600 Fortune Companies (the best selling book from AICPA for over sixty years). He supervised a research team consisted of 12-15 PhD’s and CPA’s.
Mr. Iofe consulted numerous (including Fortune 1000) companies on different business issues such as: M&A, LBO, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning, Taxes, Business Evaluation and Financing, etc.
Mr, Iofe has an MBA in Finance form University of Florida and MS in Economics and Finance from Russia.
Mr. Iofe is a Managing Partner of Universal Business Structured Solution.
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