I don't really care about women's basketball in terms of watch-ability or popularity, but how could it cost $8M for one season of a basketball team? How many players are on the team? Even with full room and board, that's gotta be a LOT for travel, food, and lodging, no?
There's probably 30 people traveling at least and lots of equipment and there's 15-20 travel games.
Travel and lodging are expensive but that's probably only half the story.
The coach makes $875,000 a year. The other coaches and trainers and staff get paid too.
NIL is about saleabiity of the athlete. And not to the team and or school. Ultimately you want NIL to be a launchpad to Hollywood where thet make 1000 times NIL.
There was a similar article floating around about LSU Womens basketball losing 8million as well. 4 million was coaches salaries as the largest expense.
At some point the major college football teams will leave and form their own league and keep most of the money. They will be University of____ Football Team, but only in name. The athletes will not attend the school (unless they want to) and the schools will receive a massive naming rights fee, but we will be done pretending that they are Student-Athletes.
Then the rest of the sports will face their day of reckoning. Will they go back to being more STUDENT-athletes? Will the schools just drop these programs and force them to be supported only as club level sports semi detached from the schools, or maybe completely detached?
At some point the major college football teams will leave and form their own league and keep most of the money. They will be University of____ Football Team, but only in name. The athletes will not attend the school (unless they want to) and the schools will receive a massive naming rights fee, but we will be done pretending that they are Student-Athletes.
Then the rest of the sports will face their day of reckoning. Will they go back to being more STUDENT-athletes? Will the schools just drop these programs and force them to be supported only as club level sports semi detached from the schools, or maybe completely detached?
Deon Sanders mentioned that his son has not attended an in person class.
At some point the major college football teams will leave and form their own league and keep most of the money. They will be University of____ Football Team, but only in name. The athletes will not attend the school (unless they want to) and the schools will receive a massive naming rights fee, but we will be done pretending that they are Student-Athletes.
Then the rest of the sports will face their day of reckoning. Will they go back to being more STUDENT-athletes? Will the schools just drop these programs and force them to be supported only as club level sports semi detached from the schools, or maybe completely detached?
Deon Sanders mentioned that his son has not attended an in person class.
When faced with a ridiculous question, you are often forced to come up with an equally ridiculous answer. I see his answer as completely sensible given the situation.
I don't really care about women's basketball in terms of watch-ability or popularity, but how could it cost $8M for one season of a basketball team? How many players are on the team? Even with full room and board, that's gotta be a LOT for travel, food, and lodging, no?
There's probably 30 people traveling at least and lots of equipment and there's 15-20 travel games.
Travel and lodging are expensive but that's probably only half the story.
The coach makes $875,000 a year. The other coaches and trainers and staff get paid too.
I agree with most of your sentiments. Like coaching and travel cost a lot, but 30 people at least for a basketball game? College basketball roster sizes are 15, and you can only put up to 13 on the bench for a given game. Add around 5 coaches then a couple trainers and you're breaking 20 but only just. Definitely is still expensive.
There's probably 30 people traveling at least and lots of equipment and there's 15-20 travel games.
Travel and lodging are expensive but that's probably only half the story.
The coach makes $875,000 a year. The other coaches and trainers and staff get paid too.
I agree with most of your sentiments. Like coaching and travel cost a lot, but 30 people at least for a basketball game? College basketball roster sizes are 15, and you can only put up to 13 on the bench for a given game. Add around 5 coaches then a couple trainers and you're breaking 20 but only just. Definitely is still expensive.
At some point the major college football teams will leave and form their own league and keep most of the money. They will be University of____ Football Team, but only in name. The athletes will not attend the school (unless they want to) and the schools will receive a massive naming rights fee, but we will be done pretending that they are Student-Athletes.
Then the rest of the sports will face their day of reckoning. Will they go back to being more STUDENT-athletes? Will the schools just drop these programs and force them to be supported only as club level sports semi detached from the schools, or maybe completely detached?
Nearly 100 of D1 schools do not have football teams. And I think the majority of FCS schools lose money on football. So how do they finance the rest of their athletic programs?
At some point the major college football teams will leave and form their own league and keep most of the money. They will be University of____ Football Team, but only in name. The athletes will not attend the school (unless they want to) and the schools will receive a massive naming rights fee, but we will be done pretending that they are Student-Athletes.
Then the rest of the sports will face their day of reckoning. Will they go back to being more STUDENT-athletes? Will the schools just drop these programs and force them to be supported only as club level sports semi detached from the schools, or maybe completely detached?
Nearly 100 of D1 schools do not have football teams. And I think the majority of FCS schools lose money on football. So how do they finance the rest of their athletic programs?
The only schools which don't lose money on athletics are the big football schools.
If you don't have a football team there is zero chance you're not losing money.
Good looking female athletes do well with NIL deals regardless of their ability. Is the same true for men? Truth is there are over 3X as many female models as there are male models. Why isn’t there a Title IX for male models?
Who do you think is paying female models? Literally almost exclusively males
At some point the major college football teams will leave and form their own league and keep most of the money. They will be University of____ Football Team, but only in name. The athletes will not attend the school (unless they want to) and the schools will receive a massive naming rights fee, but we will be done pretending that they are Student-Athletes.
Then the rest of the sports will face their day of reckoning. Will they go back to being more STUDENT-athletes? Will the schools just drop these programs and force them to be supported only as club level sports semi detached from the schools, or maybe completely detached?
Nearly 100 of D1 schools do not have football teams. And I think the majority of FCS schools lose money on football. So how do they finance the rest of their athletic programs?
That was my question. Those schools will then have to decide to just lose money on these programs, but keep them because they deem them worthy of adding to campus life, diversity, etc.. in other words, return to the original reason colleges gave athletic scholarships in the first place.
Nearly 100 of D1 schools do not have football teams. And I think the majority of FCS schools lose money on football. So how do they finance the rest of their athletic programs?
That was my question. Those schools will then have to decide to just lose money on these programs, but keep them because they deem them worthy of adding to campus life, diversity, etc.. in other words, return to the original reason colleges gave athletic scholarships in the first place.
The schools are all doing fine football or not. Tuition is so high it's a joke. They could fund athletics on the money they steal by buying books back for fractions of pennies on the dollar.
Can we all be honest about what a sham NIL is in general?
Think about it: The concept is that a business can enter into a contract with a student-athlete to leverage their name, image and likeness for advertising purposes which, in theory, would lead to an increase in sales and profit, making the deal a positive for the business (ideally).
So, we have "businesses" (really just the boosters, in many cases) throwing money at players (to seduce them to or keep them at a university), so the team is more likely to win and to make the boosters happy.
How many NIL deals are really leading to increased profit for businesses that hold the NIL rights? How many advertisements are we seeing focusing on players at all? And beyond the stars, how many ads are we seeing focusing on the second-tier and bench players that are receiving NIL money? None?
I'm all for the players benefitting from their NIL, and always thought they should have been able to. But at this point it is not a legitimate business transaction in most cases. It is booster-funded pay to play.
Boosters pay for football/baketball/baseball and sports a school is historically good at. That is rarely track and xc. All the nil deals by companies like new balance/on/whoever will likely disappear in a couple years once they don't realize increased profits.
Nearly 100 of D1 schools do not have football teams. And I think the majority of FCS schools lose money on football. So how do they finance the rest of their athletic programs?
That was my question. Those schools will then have to decide to just lose money on these programs, but keep them because they deem them worthy of adding to campus life, diversity, etc.. in other words, return to the original reason colleges gave athletic scholarships in the first place.
If football decides to leave, then all the other sports can be reorganized into more geographically compact conferences, and schedule most non-conference games against other schools in the region, to cut travel expenses. They can also make the NCAA regionals (or subregional and superregionals) to true "regions.
At some point the major college football teams will leave and form their own league and keep most of the money. They will be University of____ Football Team, but only in name. The athletes will not attend the school (unless they want to) and the schools will receive a massive naming rights fee, but we will be done pretending that they are Student-Athletes.
Then the rest of the sports will face their day of reckoning. Will they go back to being more STUDENT-athletes? Will the schools just drop these programs and force them to be supported only as club level sports semi detached from the schools, or maybe completely detached?
College football at the D1 level is a farm system for the NFL. The colleges give teams a fan base the size of a small city. I think if that connection is gone, no one is interested any more than they are for any other minor league sport. NCAA football is bigger than any minor league.
Right now we're in this weird period where people expect football players are at least going to classes, even if they are majoring in something silly. With NIL payments, its going to be assumed that the players are back to made up football player/athlete only schedules that are just a check in the box. Why would it matter when their nil payments are more than the salary they'd get with a degree.
The next step would be to remove time associated eligibility requirements and players would just stick around until they are ready for the nfl or just too old and their skills are deteriorating. They could take pass/fail classes where they read a novel or write a paper on a youtube video a couple times a semester, if they want to be technically enrolled in classes.