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If you make the cut, will still have to shift resources to include money to pay the athletes. Its why spending $35m on The Hump makes much more sense than $200m plus for a new arena.
We should be trying to reduce sports if we can. Sounds harsh but we should only compete in those sports for which we are required to compete by conference rules or Title IX. Anything else needs to be dropped. We should be taking austerity measures now so that we can stay in the big leagues in Football, Men's Basketball & Baseball.
Out of curiosity, which of the three men’s sports that you didn’t list are a huge drain on the budget?
Not until we have to, but we have far less exposure than others in our conference.
Will we have to compensate the participants of those sports? Even if we don't, we almost certainly will have to compensate the participants of the revenue generating sports. So that means there's less money to go around for everyone. We should be driving all the revenue we can legally drive back into the sports that keep the lights on. If we want to live in the neighborhood we're accustomed to, there are luxuries we'll have to go without.
Isn’t football the only sport that creates revenue? Maybe men’s basketball? Why would there be revenue sharing with athletes in sports that don’t earn a profit? Honest question.
That's the rub. The wokes aren't going to like it when women's sports get cut because of this. But they were the ones clamoring for paying players when it was the "new plantation" or whatever. Well now that we have to compensate the athletes, that money has to come from somewhere and it isn't going to be as simple as, "well, don't pay the coaches as much." College sports is a business now but the people moving it that way didn't go to business school. The inevitable fall out would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.
I expect the SEC & Big 10 will look pretty close to what they look like for 2024 until they can add a few ACC schools in the early 2030s.
Will college baseball make it? Maybe 10 teams in the nation turn a profit and not a large one.
This is from the NCAA president’s mouth. Pretty significant. There won’t be a breakaway from the NCAA. It will be a reorganization.
I See another problem. They are trying to give the players a cut but not have them become employees. So in they plan, they not only get the free education, room and board and a school supplied stipend, they get paid to play without having to pay employment taxes. How nice for them.
Those minimums could very easily change in the reorganization. The money to pay players is going to come from somewhere, and the Big 10 AD is quoted as saying the effect on the "Olympic sports" would be "devastating" and "nuclear."
Yep. I've said consistently that this oncoming demise of everything we know is greatly overexaggerated by the overly negative mouth-breathers.
To be honest, I'd almost rather they did break off into a 32-team super league. We could be very competitive at the 2nd level against schools like Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vandy, Missouri, and most of the ACC and Big 12.
Then if this is true they will be considered a self employee, and have to pay their own payroll/FICA taxes. Hire CPAs.. life is going to get real, quick.
Really? I mean really? This is your response? Do I have to explain to you that the NCAA is not the NFL? How about you compare to the rest of the actual NCAA?
What’s your point? You clearly stated something wouldn’t work and the NFL, literally where everybody playing NCAA football is trying to get to, has 2 more teams in the post season than what you said wouldn’t work.
The NFL is the NFL. Professional football business. It's a totally different animal than the NCAA. Literally nothing about it is the same except the fact that they play football.
