Oklahoma, bless it, has begun selling tickets to its football postgame press conferences. I have nothing against the University of Oklahoma, or its football team, and I know athletic departments need to be creative to raise revenue now that they can no longer pay the coach a zillion dollars while stiffing their athletes, but I just want to weigh in on this as a concept, in case any other schools are thinking of copying it:

No.

No, no, no, no, no.

It isn’t my job to stop a person from wasting money—please, buy yourself a catamaran, it sounds like a terrific investment—but please don’t waste your money on this.

I say this not as a financial adviser. I say this as someone who has sat through a good number of postgame press conferences, across multiple sports, and believes that while they

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