Agreed with this too many administrators were happy with their pay raises and such and if they had just figured something out early on it wouldn’t have gotten to this version of chaos
There is no requirement that private corporations or individuals equally treat female athletes, or you would see as many college cheerleaders on ads as you do College players.
Please name a college football athlete we have lost due to Barnhart’s claimed sluggishness. [Hint: we will enter the 2024 season with more former 4 Star and 5 Star athletes than ever under Stoops, both from HS and portal recruiting.].
The LOVE of money is the root of ALL evil. GREED!
”Third Party Interference With Contract” occurs to me first.
They don't have enormous revenue. Football does but it has to finance every other failed business called the rest of the athletic department. Trust me, I am all for having a football team and 85 member women's cross country team. That seems like the cheapest sport to stay Title 9 compliant.
Let's see how the ratings look when completely unbridled NIL in CFB has rendered CFB an annual battle between the schools that ponied up the most NIL to buy the best players in the portal for the prior 3 or 4 years.
I've mentioned this before. Millionaires/billionaires didn't become millionaires/billionaires by pissing away their money. What happens when Big Donor's team doesn't win? I suspect the money dries up rather quickly.
Tradition doesn’t really mean anything anymore. It’s all about who pays the most. No reason we can’t do what Ole Miss and Missouri did last year. Anything else is just excuses.
So, your response is that you cannot name a football player we lost as result of Mitch’s claimed reluctance to embrace NIL.
Explain to me like I'm 5 how this changes CFB going forward any different than how it has always been for 100+ yrs
Barnhart needs to go way over due he is killing both football and basketball programs
That is the best point…to argue Oregon Texas Michigan will be awaken sleeping giants due to paying for players…we’ve had this capability for decades (just had to be discretely done)
My son went to the game last night with a UK booster. He is a new booster after selling his business and he has been contributing about 5 years. I would say as Boosters go he is a lower end booster with respect to money given. With that said he told my son he was already tired of the requests for NIL, Facility Upgrades, Salaries etc. The landscape of college football is going to change. Schools with the big money boosters will start moving up the ladder and schools that have been great in the past will probably fall because of the constant demand for money and the amount demanded.
I've been telling y'all this would happen. Its just round 1 though. You still have the appellate level and SCOTUS.
Grumpy I like what you post. My opinion is NCAA sports will die off starting with the small divisions and progress to the FCS and graduate to the G5. Then there will be a big break with the top 10 to 16 teams away from there current conferences (such as ALA, GA, OSU, MICH, TX, USC,) form their own version of NCAA. The rest will have to stop all sports not profitable. After all if you want to win women’s basketball titles get me 5 to 8 guys have them declare their transgenders and play them on the womens basketball.
As a Wealth Manager, risk management is a daily concern. With my own assets I am willing to take extreme risks on occasion, but with client and employer assets I am the opposite. I think it is wrong to criticize Mitch for taking the conservative approach, but he is fair game if he doesn't adjust his approach now that the unknown risk has been wiped clear.
That's a tough question to answer and you'll see on my other post I think it is wrong to criticize Mitch for being conservative here. OTOH, I can say confidently that if Mitch had been promoting the collectives as a good and necessary decision for fans that we would have had much more to spend. Impossible to say if we lost any specific HS recruits, but we certainly lost Rogers to Auburn over it.
Then capitalism is evil because the entire system is built on the desire to make as much money as possible and to put the fewest roadblocks in the way that would prevent the accumulation of wealth.
Your scenario is possible, but I'm not convinced it will happen. The passionate fanbases in college football are unmatched in the world of sports, except for maybe some professional soccer teams in Europe and South America. I agree it is likely that some more casual fans may check out, kind of like the few thousand NFL "fans" that quit watching because of kneeling, but I would not bet money on a catastrophic loss of fans.
I suspect he's tired of the requests correlate strongly to the amount of wealth he has and maybe how much/little access he has been given vs how much he has donated. Some boosters pay for access, while other are alum and just want to help the team put a better product on the field. If he's a basketball booster, then he's probably disappointed in the product results since he's been on board, but I doubt too many football boosters are feeling the same since the team has steadily grown since the boosters started supporting it.
Along these lines, I was listening to a Saturday Down South podcast recently and they were discussing this issue. They believe that there is likely to be a massive realignment shift, as the teams split into a hybrid semi-pro model and lower tier teams maintain the status quo. In this scenario, they felt it was likely the Vanderbilt would be removed form the SEC because they couldn't afford the minimum payout standards and that Mississippi State might be another casualty.
