FSU Tests New Revenue Model as Schools Cut Sports
To earn revenue for their athletic programs, some colleges have turned to private equity or cut sports. FSU is taking a different approach.
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More schools cutting sports teams.
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All easily predictable. I and a few others on the old rivals board saw this coming. There was no other outcome. The NCAA painted itself into a corner out of greed and incompetence and here we are.
I’ll be honest I didn’t see PE entering the space, but wow if so. If you think coaches agents bend ADs over just see how PE negotiates. They will completely work over the university stooges.
Kentucky is Near the Bottom of the SEC in Athletic Donations
Only one SEC school received fewer athletic donations than Kentucky, but Will Stein is looking for creative ways to change that.
They had enough money to try and give MB $950K per year for life, good luck to them.Kentucky is Near the Bottom of the SEC in Athletic Donations
Only one SEC school received fewer athletic donations than Kentucky, but Will Stein is looking for creative ways to change that.www.on3.com
They're going to have to find other ways to fill the seats in these arenas. It won't be sports.
Ticket prices ever increasing to cover the costs of these athletes
Fans tired of no connection to the athletes
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Ticket prices ever increasing to cover the costs of these athletes
Fans tired of no connection to the athletes
More streaming options
It’s like signalling the death knell for non-revenue sports like tennis, golf and volleyball.
Private equity sees no reason for anything not churning profit to exist.
If they cap salaries, schools will just find a way to cheat, legally or otherwise.
It's been going on for ages, of course, but the glorification of sports and entertainment is really a sad commentary on humankind.
It's been going on for ages, of course, but the glorification of sports and entertainment is really a sad commentary on humankind.
YES !! The toothpaste is out of the tube now ...
Football pays the bills for all athletics at the FCS level.
When P4 football schools stop playing FCS schools, it will be the end of most sports at that level. The lack of the huge payday will be a killer.
When P4 football schools stop playing FCS schools, it will be the end of most sports at that level. The lack of the huge payday will be a killer.
I can't help but wonder if the evolution of pay-for-play will lead to the creation of more divisions, kinda like the classes for high school sports in Kentucky ?? The great disparity between the haves and have-nots, regarding money, cannot be healthy for collegiate athletics as a whole. It is a mess right now ...
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Marshall recently terminated women's diving/swim teams. And then a few weeks later reinstated the program. I have no idea why they terminated and then reinstated, but those women didn't deserve to be chucked like that. Happy they got their program back.
I'm wondering if it was pressure from the community or donors stepped up?
Football and men's basketball (for some schools) always paid for the other sports. This was ignored by the Jay Bilases of the world when whining about players not getting paid.
You can't get the toothpaste back in the tube but you can throw the tube in the garbage.
Yes, of course, but there is no way BIGTIME college sports will ever resemble anything like it did before NIL$$$ and portability.
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But they don't have to do so. These sports that don't pay for themselves just need to go back to being regional and not playing in professional facilities. High School tennis has never been profitable but it's existed for 50 years. Maybe Kentucky doesn't need to fly to Gainesville and play Florida in a USTA level facility. Maybe they need to take the bus to Richmond and play Eastern in a public facility. This is not a socialist country,
Facts, this absurd notion that sports can’t exist without a million dollar budget is absurd. It’s not Otega Owehs job to make sure the Tennis team has $300 rackets and $200 warm up suites. Make it a club sport and move on. Everyone on this board has spent 25 years talking about how Olympic sports don’t matter, now all of a sudden it’s a tragedy. No one is saying these kids shouldn’t get to play.
I had to look it up. Apparently they were adding a stunt team and cutting swimming/diving. The captain of the team filed a Title IX lawsuit and Marshall reversed course.
Title IX is going to be the only thing that saves women sports at all. They better be glad they upped the football and basketball roster sizes.
All other men's sports will have to get cut and just go to club or intramural type stuff. There is just no other way to make it work.
But dont worry, Mitch will still get his payday.
Colleges continue cutting tennis programs to fund other sports and athlete payments
The NCAA men’s and women’s tennis tournaments are underway and what should be a time of celebration for the sport has had a pall cast over it with more Division I schools announcing this week they would be dropping their programs because of the new financial realities of college athletics...
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