For all the billions of dollars, millions of fans and boundless passion that surround college football, that has always been its glaring and bizarre flaw.
Over the last decade David Blaine has become a famous magician with a combination of sleek sleight of hand and equally sharp publicity, using television specials, celebrity friends and bizarre tests of endurance to earn millions of dollars, thousands of fans and more than a few detractors.
What are millions of dollars, legions of fans, international notoriety and uncanny athletic ability compared to high school basketball stats?
"It's the difference between launching with many millions of dollars versus millions of fans".
Because when you look beyond the millions of dollars, fans and followers, Minaj is simply another black woman being accused of divisiveness by a white feminist for pointing out racial inequality.
Through six decades as a professional golfer, Palmer amassed nearly 100 wins, hundreds of millions of dollars and tens millions of fans.
That might sound like a lot but the Kardashians don't rake in the millions of dollars without having millions of fans.
While Calvin Harris earned $6 million more than Jay Z in 2014, and megaclubs in Vegas and elsewhere are still racking in millions of dollars, a growing tide of fans, DJs, festivals and promoters are looking for something smaller, deeper, and more underground.
Major League Baseball is now an investor in DraftKings, one of the leading providers of daily fantasy sports, an industry that awards hundreds of millions of dollars annually to fans speculating in the future performance of players.
I saw that she had raised thousands of dollars from fans that are complete strangers.
