Will Wade effect on LSU Baseball?

I care more about baseball tbh

Donors are still free to give as much NIL money as they’d like to baseball

Who cares?? The new administration is worrying about the 2 major sports.

If Wade does what we hope he will do, then LSU basketball will eventually pay for itself and then some.

ETA: mbb still netted $2.5M this past year and we are arse. It’s one of the only sports that can consistently generate revenue

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Who cares?? The new administration is worrying about the 2 major sports.

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See...this is the attitude I think many of us are worried about.

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ETA: mbb still netted $2.5M this past year and we are arse. It’s one of the only sports that can consistently generate revenue

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Basketball gets 6 million+ alone from their deals with networks. They wouldn't have been in the black without it. To put it into perspective, baseball doesn't have that line item to add and was only ~$800k in the red.

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Basketball gets 6 million+ alone from their deals with networks. They wouldn't have been in the black without it. To put it into perspective, baseball doesn't have that line item to add and was only ~$800k in the red.

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So what you’re telling me is without all that money that basketball makes it wouldn’t make any money.

Thanks Einstein

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Basketball gets 6 million+ alone from their deals with networks. They wouldn't have been in the black without it. To put it into perspective, baseball doesn't have that line item to add and was only ~$800k in the red.

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And Alabama went from profiting $1-2 million in MBB to $9.5 million last season over the course of a few years - how - by being competitive. But they’re a basketball school.

Anything LSU MBB profits goes back to support other programs, including baseball.

And to the guy above that says he knows how it works, you truly do not.

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So what you’re telling me is without all that money that basketball makes it wouldn’t make any money.

Thanks Einstein

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basketball makes the money they do, on paper, because of a deal with the entire conference and how each program is allocated money and how it shows up on the balance sheet. Football gets 18, basketball 6, and the remaining 36 million shows up as a collective amount that isn't assigned to any individual sport. The other sports don't get to simply divide the remaining 36 and assign the remainder equally.

Don't get it twisted. Our deal is what it is for every sport not named football because of football.

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No, I'm very clear on that. I'm not sure you are clear on how any of this works. Most of the NIL deals are facilitated through LSU's NIL administration. There's only so much privately funded NIL money to go around (i.e. Our Lady of the Lake - as an example - is only going to give a certain amount) and when we promise X amount of dollars to MBB, that can leave less for other sports.

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NIL is privately funded. LSU does not decide what athletes represent what private businesses. That’s up to the business. Now LSU may suggest athletes to a business, but it’s ultimately the businesses decision.

The rules for the collectives have changed and are much more scrutinized now.