Coaches compensation and support/admin expenses (which covers severance for former coaches/admins) is a pretty big piece of that expense pie.
It’s hard for me to see these crazy contracts and buyout provisions for coaches and say “yeah, I should pay more for tickets to cover these talent fees.”
Ah, “you.” You can make your choices with your money. One day, you will realize that the cost is not worth the utility. There are plenty of others who have different utility functions, and they are their problem.
They are not even pretending to be educators anymore. Its just a football program with buildings attached to it now.
I remember when I wrote this. OK, already lost that one game.
So, no more losses, and they end up somewhere between 2nd Place and 5th. Should be easy, Big Ten is such a pushover Conference…
After Week 4:
Three Big 10
Three SEC
One ACC
One Big 12
Highest not Power 4 team/champion
Three other highest-ranked
The Pac-12 and Mountain West should just go ahead and merge, make it the WestMoPac-12 or something. Maybe just go find a corporate sponsor for the conference name.
I had the same thought! Pac-12 brings the tradition and the TV package while the MWC brings the teams!
Moc-12.
Speaking the Mountain West, you players need to get numbers in writing.
Not sure he understands what a “red-shirt” season means – or maybe I don’t understand: can he “red-shirt” after already starting three games?
Yes. You get four games until you give up your red shirt
Wow, that’s almost half a season.
From the internet:
can compete in up to four games against other schools and keep their redshirt status.
True, but it’s complicated.
Coaches are making NIL promises that someone other than the university is responsible for paying. I think you get it in writing with the NIL collectives themselves, and certainly advisable for every player. However, given that kids are moving schools annually chasing better and better NIL deals, I’m not sure how binding the contract language is. Also, how permanent are the collectives themselves? In this case I gather the collective is The Friends of UNLV collective. Even if he had it in writing, if that collective dissolves tomorrow and a new Supreme Boosters of UNLV forms it might be complicated to demand cash from the old entity.
If true, I’m sorry the kid got duped but I think it likely worked out very for him. He probably wasn’t getting a nice NIL deal from a power 5 conference while transferring from Holy Cross, so the UNLV deal was probably his best offer. Now that he showed out for a few games in the Mountain West, he can probably command an NIL deal next year from a power 5 team.
Added Thoughts
Out of context, but man, the us is crazy over college football. When we were in.syracuse last weekend my daughter and sil went to see a game. I.dropped.them.off near the stadium. It was crazy, the.traffic.
I’d have gone myself just to enjoy the crowd, but I was babysitting.
And shopping the next day, a whole retail.store for their football team.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. Visit a college town in the SE on game day.
It’s similar in Canada for local hockey. I’ve no interest in the sport, but going to see a local team place, you can smell the adrenaline in the crowd. Been a few times, well worth the experience.
Very interesting final play between Miami/VT. I believe the ending result was correct.
local hockey - hockey arenas hold 20K people in the metros. smaller towns fewer.
college football has at least 60K people in the stands. several have 80K and a few are 100K+.
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