I’ll be there!!
I’m sorry to hear
The betting line in this game.
Same. I will be there and would love to have a reason to stick around. Wishful thinking I know.
Good presser. Kind of talked more about the current and future landscape of CFB than I would have thought. But good to hear. My main takeaway was, it seems our NIL pool isn’t as big as some have presented it to be on this board. TA seemed shocked that N Texas could find the resources to make an offer of $500k to try to keep one of the best QB’s in the AAC.
That was a very honest interview. No doubt we are behind in resources, especially NIL. I am guessing this is one of the reasons we are getting a new AD. Worth the watch.
I do know Mike refused to leverage student fee money to pay players. I hope new AD draws that line in the sand too.
If we have to pay players they need to find new sources.
100%. Can’t be paying players with student loan money. Need new revenue sources.
It all goes in the same pot guys.
Student fees for things like equipment is fine. After all, they already pay fees associated with their college program. But anything beyond that would be reprehensible
Yes and no. I get what you are saying it’s all the same budget, but if we are moving money from say golf to pay a lineman I have a massive issue with that. If we need money for a player that needs to be new money.
It is just not right for a student going to college for an education to have to also pay for any athletic to play a school team. I would assume some 80% of college students have little interest in sports much less having to pay for them even with a small athletic fee. Their costs to go to school are a burden to them already.
Thats just too bad—–we all pay taxes and fees to governments and schools for things we dont care about and this is coming from a Charlotte alum, who also has footed the bill for 2 kids to also go to and graduate from Charlotte. The OVERALL cost of college at Charlotte is still pretty good, relative to most schools.
The difficult part is assuring its new money.
Prior to revenue sharing we (as a society) had decided that providing full ride scholarships was a social and university good and that athletic fees to support this social good were acceptable.
You can argue about whether there was consensus on those points but that’s how college sports was operating.
Post revenue share athletes are getting a share of revenue over and above their full ride scholarships.
If that revenue is completely funded by REAL revenue from ticket sales, sponsors and TV money then we are in the clear morally.
If that revenue is funded by ticket sales, sponsors, TV money AND athletic fees then we are on very shaky ground morally.
why?
Because the previous social compact of paying for full ride scholarships using athletic fees that was acceptable to our society has been replaced with the same fees going into a pot of revenue that is paying the players rev share over and above full ride scholarship
The net effect is that athletic fees, many of which are financed with student loans, are used to pay players over and above full ride scholarships.
Students are literally financing and paying interest on money that is being paid to players and coaches. They may be paying interest on those payments to players and coaches for 10 years.
this is not just happening in the G6. There were cases of P4 teams implementing athletic fees first time or increasing previous athletic fees to increase revenue
It just doesn’t stand the smell test.
And what’s sad is we could maintain our college sports culture without having to resort to rev share in these situations.
There needs to be a dividing line.
Above the line, the only athletic fees are for the stuff that the average student might use (gyms, pools, weights, tennis courts, intramural, etc.). All revenue for varsity sports teams must come from TV money and other real revenue sources.
Below the line it’s the traditional model we were used to. No rev share.
This can all be accomplished by putting in rules and regulations that prevent athletic fees from being used as described above.
The ridiculous pay structures for revenue sports coaches and AD staff will go down.
Don’t tell me that college sports cannot survive without the big coaching and AD salaries and the far flung conferences.
If high schools and little D3 colleges can maintain a full featured athletic department then so can universities.
The system is currently constructed to protect the huge salaries of coaches and AD staff.
that needs to change