Interesting take on P-5 have and have nots

[FDNY99]

Just saw this on CSNbbs realignment board:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/30/big-changes-ncaasports.html
It's a pretty good read with a lot of quotes from Boise St AD
(I'm not a fan of where it comes from...but it's one of the better angles on how there is a big divide between the haves and have nots in the P-5)

 

[Dooley]

"But a funny thing may happen on the way to the feared demise of those Cinderella schools. Not all of the 65 relatively high-resource schools want to go along with the plan pushed by their brethren from Alabama, Florida, Ohio State, and other behemoths with deep pockets. Schools like Wake Forest, Indiana, Syracuse and Pitt may not want to start pumping vast sums into athletics."

I always chuckle when I see Cuse and Pitt lumped into the lower-end of the P5 model. Those two schools are almost always mentioned, with Wake (of course!), as examples of schools who might not want to or simply can't afford to pay additional benefits. But then I get mad at the thought that they have been grandfathered into the new model and we make $2.71 a year from the AAC contract.

 

[Hoophound]

"But a funny thing may happen on the way to the feared demise of those Cinderella schools. Not all of the 65 relatively high-resource schools want to go along with the plan pushed by their brethren from Alabama, Florida, Ohio State, and other behemoths with deep pockets. Schools like Wake Forest, Indiana, Syracuse and Pitt may not want to start pumping vast sums into athletics." I always chuckle when I see Cuse and Pitt lumped into the lower-end of the P5 model. Those two schools are almost always mentioned, with Wake (of course!), as examples of schools who might not want to or simply can't afford to pay additional benefits. But then I get mad at the thought that they have been grandfathered into the new model and we make $2.71 a year from the AAC contract.

I didn't know about the .71 million. Sweet!

 

[pj]

I didn't know about the .71 million. Sweet!

UConn doesn't know about it either. He meant 71 cents.

 

[Dooley]

I don't think we'll make a cumulative $71M over the course of our AAC membership, even if that membership lasts 100 years.