At nearly $2 million per year — roughly $4 million less than what the biggest-time college coaches annually make — how much of NCAA boss Mark Emmert’s salary is TV-supplied hush money?

What never made much sense now makes none, and thus carries the feel and stench of pure, unfiltered fraud. The NCAA, no matter how sincere Emmert looks and speaks when he utters “student-athletics,” betrays the maximum boundary of logic.

Consider Michigan State’s basketball schedule, just this month:

Summoned by ESPN money to play Arizona on ESPN in Hawaii, this past Friday, Michigan State’s student-athletes — many on full scholarships as minimal academic qualifiers — missed at least three days of classes.

Then, from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it was back on an airplane to fly all day and night to New York to play Kentucky — again at ESPN’s purchased request — Tuesday night in The Garden.

Then it was back in the airplane and back to East Lansing, but only long enough to play two games in three nights, versus Mississippi Valley State on Friday, then against Florida Gulf Coast on Sunday night.

Then it’s back on the airplane and off to the Bahamas to play three games in three days within a tournament on and for ESPN, beginning Wednesday.

Finally, it’s back on the airplane to fly back to the States — North Carolina — to play in ESPN’s “ACC/Big 10 Challenge,” at Duke on Nov. 29 (a Tuesday), starting at 9:30 p.m., before flying back to Michigan.

This team, composed of 16 young men from six states and three countries, is enrolled at Michigan State as college students. Such a TV-determined schedule isn’t rare, it’s just that Michigan State lately has spent so much far-from-school time playing on our TVs — with plenty more to come.

And so, Dr. Emmert, how does this work? How can we practically — possibly — reconcile what you nobly reference as “student-athletics” to be better than a con, a fraud; colleges serving as fronts for basketball teams?

At a time when the incivility and criminality of college players (former and current and recruited with full scholarships) and professional players, fresh from our NCAA colleges, clearly seems in steady escalation, how does Emmert explain that?

In Michigan State’s case, there are too many cases. Mateen Cleaves, star of the 2000 Spartans — the university retired his number — and a first-round NBA pick, last year was arrested for the sexual assault of a woman he allegedly held against her will.

Draymond Green, Michigan State student-athlete from 2009 to 2012, and now a recidivist NBA misanthrope specializing in kicking opponents, in July was arrested for assault.

Keith Appling, star guard from 2011 to 2014, this year was arrested three times in six months, twice for gun possession, including, allegedly, a loaded AK-47. Appling, at Michigan State, was listed as a sociology major.

Thus there’s evidence, beyond its far-flung schedule, that Michigan State doesn’t serve its student-athletes as well as they serve the university.

What practical, concerned-about-our-kids folks need from Emmert is an explanation as to how such TV-money-driven schedules — teams flown all over the hemisphere to play basketball — provide full-scholarship players a legitimate, useful, society-benefiting, self-benefiting college education.

Or is that too much to ask?

Statistics or just a lot of static?

Down the hallway, inside the Department of Statistics, Bonzo the chimp, wearing a cap with a plastic propeller atop it, is seated on a swivel chair in front of a desk, punching the keys of a computer.

After the Jets’ 99-yard TD drive against the Rams, Sunday, a FOX graphic let us know this: “Jets Longest Drive This Season.”

Funny, we had a feeling. But we would have gone with “99-Yard Drive Equals All-Time NFL Record.”

Within the same telecast, FOX cut to a highlight from Broncos-Saints. A must-read graphic read, “New Orleans’ Last Home Win vs. Denver, 1988.” Wow, nearly 30 years!

But as reader Michael Christadore correctly notes, the Broncos had played at New Orleans only twice since 1988.

It’s not that they think we’re morons; it’s that they don’t think at all.

It’s the little things, too. The same Rams-Jets telecast on FOX, before kickoff, had several minutes to post a large “FOX Sports — SAP Available” graphic. But it waited until the instant it could distract from live play — the moment Nick Folk’s foot touched the ball for the kickoff — before posting it.

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate” — Emily Dickinson

Two weeks ago during the Giants’ 28-23 win against the Eagles, Philadelphia coach Doug Pederson twice chose to go for touchdowns on fourth-and-goal, once from the 1-yard line, the other from the 2. Both failed.

Pederson’s “poor decision-making” became a large part of the game autopsy.

Monday, the Giants, down six to the Bengals, had a fourth-and-goal from the 3 at the start of the fourth quarter. Ben McAdoo chose to go for it. The Giants scored, then kicked the PAT for the game’s final points.

And McAdoo’s derring-do — What a great, gutsy decision! — became a large part of the recap.

Got a minute … or 14?

The game between Maryland and Georgetown on FS1 Tuesday had a couldn’t-miss finish. Maryland, down seven with 58 seconds left, won by one.

But it was one of those finishes best watched on DVR — if you allowed enough time to record it. With three timeouts called, foul calls, substitution whistles and referees’ stoppages to review video and double-check the clock, the game needed to be fast-forwarded to be reasonably enjoyed.

The game’s final 28.8 seconds took — I kid you not — 14 minutes to complete!

Dave Roberts over Joe Maddon for NL Manager of the Year? Absolutely!

This is where context counts more than wins. The Dodgers finished first in the NL West with 91 wins, one fewer than the Dodgers of the 2015 season under Don Mattingly, and 12 fewer wins than the 2016 Cubs.

But these Dodgers did so with an MLB-record 28 players lost to the disabled list, including ace Clayton Kershaw for three months.

And Roberts didn’t suffer the minimalist behavior of one of his most talented players, $5.5 million per Yasiel Puig, once benching him and later demoting him to the minors for failure to play as if he cared. I’d have voted for Roberts to be King.

NBC and NBCSN, with the full indulgence of the NHL, continue to promote telecasts as if they’re cage fighting, i.e., with the come-and-git-yer-blood promise of extraordinary, hate-filled violence NHL games now seldom produce.

Wednesday’s Penguins-Capitals game was promoted as the (fabricated) renewal of a Holy War. The game was played without even a fight.