Taylor for sure, mullens, burgess id imagine, ramil. Appās transfer class was ranked below ours so Iām really surprised how Friday looked
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Money
I have no insight at all about where the NIL went. Loftis and Harrell probably both got some. I would guess Bootle got some, and some of the linebackers. Ramil is possible, along with Green. I also would guess that some went to the late additions to the DL. Did they get their moneyās worth? At this point it doesnāt look like it, but perhaps things will improve.
This post is a window into the thoughts about athletics that could be the biggest obstacle for status quo of college sports, especially for the G6.
opposition to athletic fees could gain a lot of traction and could have real teeth with state legislatures and federal regulators. Maybe even class action lawsuits could happen.
The P4 could survive by cutting salaries and expenses. But itās gonna be real hard for the G6 to do the same.
I will be shocked if there is not a movement against athletic fees in general over the next few years. I just donāt see how it survives long term after revenue sharing came in.
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Mike Hill seems to think private equity and other revenue sources will replace the current model.
I would just like to point out that I had to get to campus at least 30 minutes to an hour early to find a parking space long before we had a football team. Iām sure if we didnāt have football each classroom would have itās own parking lot right outside the door.
That being said I donāt like student fees being used the way they are. 90% of college athletic departments have no business trying to compete financially with the top 10%.
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I hope Mike Hill can find other revenue sources.
But he is dead wrong on private equity.
Private equity is a vampire squid that will suck the blood out of anything good it touches in this scenario.
It has no place in college athletics.
I still fail to understand what private equity investors actually think they are going to get back.
college sports is not a money maker. A lot less now that you have to pay your labor.
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I said window into a thought pattern dude. Donāt take things so literally.
Itās about the money generated by student fees while the players are getting paid from ārevenueā.
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Yeah i just edited my post to finish my thought. I agree with what you are saying but disagree with the whiny college kids complaining about parking on a college campus.
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I feel you. Kids will whine about everything. Now thereās a small nugget of something that could be actionable against the way the money is being spent.
Iām with you on your edit. we need another division. Maybe two.
I donāt think having FBS football is that important for the complete college experience and building love for the school.
HAVING football is big. It just doesnāt have to be FBS.
Lots of schools outside of FBS (or who where outside of FBS like App) have or had passionate fan bases and school community that is helped (itās not the end all be all itās part of the entire formula!) by having football.
But it doesnāt have to be FBS. It doesnāt even have to be D1.
We need a national college sports rationalization program.
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Students should revolt.
Itās disgusting forcing them to subsidize professional sports model.
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clt says college sports is already circling the drain
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Coaching/player talent are most important
The problem with Division I football is that there isnāt a lot of cost savings dropping to FCS, but there is a lot of revenue loss and visibility loss. Thatās why you see so many FCS teams wanting to move up to FBS, and you donāt see teams voluntarily moving down to FCS (sometimes it happens involuntarily, is in the case of Idaho, who lost their conference and couldnāt get a schedule in FBS.)
FCS iās not the only possible answer, though. Consider U. Chicagoās football program. They were a founding member of the Big Ten, and a football power under Amos Alonzo Stagg. In 1939, they abolished football. After many years they decided that maybe football did have a place on campus, and in 1963 added football, first as a club sport, then as a varsity sport, and in 1973 they made the leap to the big time, and upgraded to Division III.
I donāt mind seeing some funding coming from Student fees. After all, it is a campus activity that students can enjoy for free. However, the amount they should be forced to pay is not infinite. Something in the range of $100 a year would seem reasonable enough.
In the end, the elephant in the room, that no one ever wants to mention, is the question: Why are supposedly non-profit academic institutions operating professional sports teams?
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Add another zero and thatās where our students are at.
Carl, I just breezed by the ohio message board and the fans on there seemed to be loving albinās failure on friday, and said, āhe had a deer in headlights look like his first year at ohio.ā Did you recall see him looking shellshocked ever at ohio?
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I presume thatās for all sports, though, and in fairness, my $100 was just for football games. Then there is the cost of facilities, which students do also get to use, sometimes. When you add in other sports, and the facilities, even $4-500 isnāt something I would complain about as a student. $844 seems way too high, though.
I wouldnāt call it a deer in the headlights look. To me, a ādeer in the headlightsā situation is a situation where there is an answer (getting off the road), but the deer panics and canāt find it. I just donāt think that there was an answer that could be found within the confines of the game. Finding answers, if they exist, will be in new strategies on the OL and DL, and some new plays or personnel changes.
They have a lot of work to do this week.
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Saw ad on espn Matt Barrie is returning to campus for sportscenter on sept 18 vs Rice at 2pm
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