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you are kidding yourself if you think this is clear. It will be the end of certain colleges ADs and you watch how Rick and team use this to come asking for more. They will not be the only one. This is going to be a massive problem, especially for the non-P4 schools
Yep. "Funded out of revenue" ignores the reality that there are very few ADs running at a $20M budget surplus. Something's got to give because the money isn't currently there.
I’m not kidding myself on anything. I m merely answering questions you raise or adding clarity from the settlement on some of your assertions.
For many schools (Colorado included) Football is the only real revenue producer. MBB makes a little money and the other 14 sports are revenue losers living off Football revenue.
How much more revenue is CU getting from the new Big 12 contract compared to the old Pac 12 deal?
Sports will be cut. Positions will be eliminated. Coach salaries will moderate. Some universities will drop to a different division. Sponsorships will become more vital. Ticket prices will go up. New TV revenues will help. Donations will be essential to balance the budget. Collectives will be brought in-house and I suspect some monies from collectives will help support the operational budget. PE could get involved. Some ADs will bite CFOs And some schools, like tOSU and Texas won’t flinch. That’s what I’m reading.
Yes. Seismic changes coming
It’s a good chance for them to form a separate division.
At the very least the conference should allow all members to cut non-revenue men's sports (not that CU has many left) and cut women's sports to the bare minimum that Title IX will allow for men's football and basketball to exist. Not that cutting mens track, cross-country, and golf will save all that much, probably something like 25 scholarships, but at this point any money spent on them is money wasted, and if it would allow for a total of about 50 scholarships total to be cut, along with coaches and athletics department staff, that would be a good start.
This will create departments that will cease operation and massive numbers of sports will be cut. If football is the only sport generating revenue and you have to go and back pay and as well as pay damages there will not be revenue for other sports. Title 9 will cause massive problems for those schools and it will lead to schools dropping athletics, fewer scholarships, etc. you are kidding yourself if you think that “settlement” accounted for all of these ancillary repercussions. It did not. The ramifications will decimate most non-P4 teams and probably some P4 teams as well.
You saw my post on the seismic downstream changes, both positive and negative.
It indeed is an open question. But important to remember Title IX addresses opportunity, not compensation.
Agreed.
Maybe just one sport, an 85 woman soccer team, all on scholarship.
That will never fly
Why the pieces about how big a dick prime is are funny to me.
Slides and barbershops are gonna get cut.
Here's the thing: I want more sports, not fewer. I'd love to have Men's Soccer, Volleyball and Lacrosse, Women's Gymnastics, Triathlon and Beach Volleyball, and Men's & Women's Hockey and Baseball/ Softball. I hope there's a path to expanding rather than retracting the AD.
So we're likely looking at smaller or larger than 85 man rosters?
None of the school's are being forced to opt in and 20 million is an estimation. Some schools won't have that to offer.
So true. Let’s see what happens to those that do not
The non P4 schools have the choice to use this model or drop to different level...or form their own division with different rules.
Maybe but not sure how the opposite happens. I hope it does but who will care?
