I live in Chicago, I'm friends with a bunch of MSU grads. They wear their MSU gear on football Saturdays and go to one of the numerous MSU bars on college football Saturdays in their green and white. They do the same thing for basketball games. All those bars are filled for games with green and white and you see Sparty flags around the city on homes and businesses. It's not because of MSU's math program.
AKA we are duck***. The fans who made this about BE nostalgia are in for a rude awakening in the next decade.
Then shut it down! What are you trying to do here? This charade if scheduling P5 schools who are INVESTING in their programs is neither gonna draw fans to watch a team get curb stomped or gonna lead to any type of success. I was there when Purdue came to town. You had your choice of seats and the team lost 59-0. What they are trying to do hasnt come close to working. Cincinnati and Houston had huge subsidies as well and found a way to hire quality people and it paid off.
#2 seems like the only option because there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Pretty much everyone here loves UConn football and badly wants it to succeed. They recognize the only way for that to happen is to join a power football conference. The problem is nobody wants us, the writing is on the wall on that.
Well that's the problem. We are dumpster diving while not realizing that if you actually spend enough money, you'll see an exponentially better ROI. If we spent an extra $4-5M a year on football and was able to hire a competent staff, that would pay dividends down the road of a likely P4 invite, increased ticket revenue, increased donations, etc. The problem is that no AD will ever get the support to do that because it means either taking away money from the basketball program (which should never happen, lets be honest) or they are too scared to spend the money, it doesn't work, and then they have to answer to the State of CT about how they just blew millions of dollars on a dead program.
Wasn’t money. It’s about association. They just not interested. Culturally, imo. They can’t get past helping elevate a northeast football program and everything that comes with perhaps the two of the higher profile hoops teams in the country.
Have you actually not heard of the House settlement and the revenue sharing news? Read this article. But the gist of it is that AD's will be allowed to share up to $23M PER YEAR of their revenue to pay athletes. This is why getting a P4 TV check was so crucial. We are screwed.
And they would have to schedule one less “buy in game” it would give each sec school an additional football win!
Key word: realities.
I'm disappointed in you. Your realignment PhD has been revoked
Because the future of college athletics looks more and more like the doomsday scenario people predicted a decade ago. The PAC12 is proof enough of that. Soon it will be a de facto D1 of the power conferences and no one else.
The ruling has effectively killed parity in the sport. I don't see how you have revenue sharing based on a percentage of average revenue but the revenue pot isn't shared.
I think it kills parity within the P2 conferences.. let alone D1 NCAA sports.
If #1 happens then we can cut quite a few non rev programs as well.
Hoping it’s sarcasm, but that would be an epically bad decision. Paraphrasing, but that statement would read like our fans hate the idea of our school joining the #1 basketball conference and securing the programs future; so we’re not interested in massive revenue increases and we’d rather continue to beat up the Big East unless we get a Big Ten invite.