South Carolina women's basketball: Why Dawn Staley wants "units"
South Carolina basketball's Dawn Staley reveals the biggest difference between the men's and women's tournaments, which most haven't heard.
Why Dawn Staley wants "units"
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How does Mark Emmert continue to have a job and receive that big paycheck. He has no vision. Just sits back and hopes issues will disappear or someone else will take the reins. Incompetent is being too kind.
When DS talks about growing the game, this is what she means. The NCAA so devalued the women’s game that they sold the rights at a yard sale without even bothering to check it’s value
Even if the women's tournament doesn't generate as much revenue as the men's tournament, there's no reason that both should not follow the same payout model, whatever it is.
Same shortsighted NCAA who essentially gives away revenue to bowls instead of promoting a 16-team true playoff in FBS football.
People generally just aren't as interested in women's basketball.
That's a reasonable statement, and I doubt DS would disagree. Of course, she's trying to change that.
Notwithstanding the change, I think what DS is getting at is that the NCAA is short-selling women's March Madness. If it's valued at $100m, and the NCAA is selling rights for $34m, that's a problem. No different than if men's March Madness is valued at $1b and the NCAA sold rights for $340m.
In your opinion, how much less could they care?
Yes, and please advise how much less they could care while you're at it.
Lol at thinking the NCAA wouldn’t gladly agree to this to make money.
That’s on the schools who don’t want expansion.
It’s just nonsensical to think the NCAA wouldn’t take more money if they were being offered more money. It’s literally an organization designed to make money.
Do you even know what you are talking about? Units for NCAA wins promotes the university and the sport.
The NCAA is generally pretty good at squeezing every last dime out of its cash cows.
I wish college baseball got half the publicity that women's college basketball gets. Heck, I wish men's college soccer, wrestling, golf, and track and field got 1/10th the coverage of women's college basketball. But it is what it is.
So, women's basketball tourney is worth $100 million dollars, but we, as one of the top teams in the nation, lose $4.5 million a year by having women's basketball.
I don't think so. Somebody paid off the appraiser.
I don't think so. Somebody paid off the appraiser.
That's why Dawn wants units, so we don't lose money and and the school earns a share based on success. As of now, we get the same share as Wofford.
But wait.... success means more money?
What a concept!
What happened to equity without equal effort? Such irony
Why doesn't she ask for women's basketball tickets to cost the same as the men's basketball tickets?
That would certainly help us lose less money.
They are, but they’re still cheaper than the men’s tickets.
There is a reason for that.