Whispers of an underlying “backstory “ here. —Maybe not a straight forward “show me the money” flip. We’ll see
If we can't outbid WVU that's a problem
That did not ruin what a fanbase roots for... These are educational facilities not a G league. NIL takes the student part of student athlete out of that equation. The money the universities make from athletics could go to ALL students. Put it towards lowering tuition of non-athlete students, since athletes ALREADY get a free education as well.
NIL money doesn’t come from the school.
Is Storm Duck the all time unique name for a PSU player?
He would be saddened by the NCAA execs, media execs, conference execs, soul selling university presidents, carousel coaches, but not sure he would blame 'the kids' getting thrown into this 'all for the money' industry of college sports.
IIRC, JoePa was one of the first to lobby for players to get stipends....but never to get rich. And, I think Joe refused mega-millions and some raises by PS.
Except that most Athletic div 1 programs operate in the red and 'all non athlete students' tuition goes up. Some schools even have a line item on tuition invoices that records a payment for athletic programs.
We always have the option to start playing the money game like everyone else is. Nobody here likes the game but thats the game and right now we ain't playing it so we ain't winning it.
The total attendance of wrestling this season will outnumber the conference total of basketball for home games.
I would agree but not completely. Many collegiate football programs would still run in the red. Many non revenue generating collegiate programs do not require expensive facilities, salaries etc. wrestling, volleyball, field hockey, baseball, lacrosse, swimming, diving etc ..probably the biggest expense is travel and lodging for away games and tournaments and the number of events requiring travel are not that many. Shared facilities are common...strength and conditioning and rehab facilities... example BJC.
Or get rid of all mean and women's (am I permitted to uses those terms?) sports and only have combined sports for all programs. That'll deal with all kinds of problems being faced.
10 conference home games×8,000 per game equals 80 thousand in hoops
If the Top team in the country can't break even then that is in them. Maybe you should put some money into the program.
I have another plan. Games played in front of less than 1000 fans should all be cancelled. Pretty dumb to put a team on a plane and travel 500 miles to play in an empty stadium. If the fans don't care about the game then why play it? Non revenue producing sports conference affiliations should be dumped. Those games can be replaced with local games vs non conference rivals.
Sure. If you can sell that to the alum.
