Isn’t the idea to spend the money before NIL kills off college football for good?
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Isn’t the idea to spend the money before NIL kills off college football for good?
College football is done for good my friend. Sad, two best sports, hoops and football and we screwed them up
The white outs against our best matchups like Michigan and tOSU are done with the new FOX Big Noon deal so the pretending is in your head. WVU might be our only true night game at home this season.
FOX doesn’t have first choice every week, CBS and NBC will each get their share (though FOX will reportedly have the most weeks of having the top choice). We’ll have our share of 3:30 and 7:30 home games each season.
I recall the same sentiment when MLB initiated free agency. Too much $$$$ to fail. Change...not for the better...but it will go on.
The world is fine- it's the damn people who ruin it.
For 2023, FOX gets to choose the 3 weeks they want 1st pick.
And, looking at the B1G schedule, it's a virtual guarantee they'll take Weeks 8, 11 and 13.
Michigan (and @ Ohio State) are very likely to be Noon games.
Fox is running the show on this TV contract. CBS and NBC are getting the scraps.
That’s not really a correct characterization. FOX does get some priority but sources I trust indicate that CBS and NBC will get first choice at least 1/4 of the weeks each (maybe not in 2023 for CBS since they will carry fewer games but at least for 2024 and beyond).
edit: I’ll also note that unlike the previous deal, FOX does not get all the conference championship games - CBS and NBC get some of them each.
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Tough sell- "Come live in New Jersey and lose a lot of games."
Players? Maybe since their families are sitting in them. Fans? Absolutely since they are paying for season tickets, seat licensing, donation points to improve their seats....but we could always just put some lawn chairs in a field and play there....as Pat Kraft stated Beaver Stadium is an identity for PSU....and apperance matters to the players.
Because I think that the spending 3/4 of a billion dollars should be fully justified?
We should worry about what's being paid to update the stadium, when the BoT squandered millions on phony settlements and a bogus consent decree they concocted?
So when that happens 10 years from now the costs will be 3 billion for a renovation or a new stadium for 4 billion.
You're logic is exactly how gov't deals with infrastructure. Let it get to that point where it's unsafe or undesirable then start crying that you don't know how this could happen and scramble for money.
You know the game.
Except the full $700mm is not to make the stadium structurally and mechanically sound. The amount over and above that is intended to generate revenue and should be economically justified. Typically one element of that is increased ticket prices (in various shapes and forms). How do you think the folks who sit in the East side will feel about that?
So the equivalent to road taxes would be what? A proper fundraising campaign? Your whole analogy is another complete non sequitur. Nobody in the university has ever stated the stadium is structurally unsafe.
We know that price tag is an imaginary number. What does $70mm get you for now?
The board has never voted down a football request. Not sure where the diverting of funds idea comes from.
Example of let go to
then pay tens of millions for a complete rebuild on a small AAA stadium 10 years ago. It would cost $150mm + today.You're the guy that's saying let it go it's fine then when it's not and PSU asks for gov't money your going to lose your mind and scream against it. Textbook.
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Franklin has complained he doesn't get enough funds for coaching salaries, NIL, facilities, etc. Meanwhile the board, including Short, have been raiding the AD budget for things like museums.
Example of let go to
You're the guy that's saying let it go it's fine then when it's not and PSU asks for gov't money your going to lose your mind and scream against it. Textbook.
Help Could Be On The Way For Stadium Repairs
With the current agreement with the New York Yankees set to expire after the 2010 season, Lackawanna County took a major step Thursday aimed at keeping Triple-A Yankees at PNC Field for the next several years. The Lackawanna County Commissioners released a study that recommends $13 million for...
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This is mind boggling stupid. Why would anyone pay to keep a damn minor league professional team? You complain roads get neglected, well here's your damn funds and resources for them. But you don't realize that.
Supported it? Short led the charge in the Finance Committee - calling it a brilliant example of "financial engineering" on the part of Eric Barron - I kid you not, you can look it up.
THAT was the only time in recent memory (TTBOMK) the Board actually voted on something that "took money away from" athletics.
Lubrano, on the other hand - actually voted "against".
The full Board ended up approving it 26-7.
Amazing how the facts are so often 180 degrees opposite of some folks' "my truth" - and how little the facts matter.
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And the other vote that people bring up in regards to “taking away” funds from football happened at a unique time recent history. People will cite the vote but not the reasons behind the vote.
Yep
Or, gee whiz, the fact that even then, the spending proposal for Lasch went through anyway - by an overwhelming majority.
But, I suppose, I must be missing the meaningful detrimental impact to "football" that occurred by having the proposal pass 30-6 as opposed to 36-0.
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