clt says DJ played there, we need a DJ
I never know what thread to put this guyās graphs in, but theyāre fascinating.
Our spending on football and basketball is bottom tier of the AAC.
Looks like our spending on everything is bottom tier. Itāll stay that way as long as performance is bottom tier too.
We have the third most athletes in the conference too, so I suspect doing the math would show us spending the least per student athlete in the conference.
NOTE: moved the UPDATED SPORTS SPENDING DATA for 2022-23 posted by NA to this thread since we were awarded the EM Cup based on results etc of that year.
Itās common for the new conference arrivals to be in the bottom end of the conference. See Sincy and Houston in B12.
With that said, it is a tough situation. Really need one or a few large investors to buy into vision and fund things to get the ball rolling. The problem now is with NIL and capital campaign on top of the performance and just trying to get operating budget up I just donāt see they happening.
We donāt have enough people donating small amounts. We donāt have enough people donating large amounts. We donāt have enough people buying tickets and season tickets. We donāt have enough companies backing us. We donāt have enough success to sell people on. We have too many things we are trying to fund.
And sceneā¦.its basically win in something, anything. Move the needle. Thatās why Mike hill took a chance with biff. Everything else is catching lightning in a bottle.
So what was the logic behind the Biff hire you are referring to?
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Soccer, indoor & outdoor track, softball and tennisā¦
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I love soccer, but aside from people like me, it just doesnāt move the needle.
Soccer is going to continue to grow and become a bigger college sport, but imagine where we could rank if football and basketball were legit.
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The ticking time bomb in soccer is if the popularity ever rises to the point were the SEC decides to start sponsoring it.
They have the $ to become immediately successful. We have basically been in leagues (like CUSA) where programs like ours were surrogates for the SEC not fielding teams.
Hope they continue to ignore it.
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They will. They think itās a commie sport down there in the butt crack of the US.
Soccer is incredibly popular around the world and increasingly popular in the United States. If football can find itās footing our AD would start looking succesful overnight. Baseball/Softball and Menās and Womenās basketball are good programs that would benefit greatly from good football.
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