re: Apologies to WBB, but the LSU baseball team deserves a bigger percentage of rev. share

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Maybe true in a lot of the college world but not lsu.

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Rev share money is primarily driven by national media interests. I am not certain how LSU determines how they split their money, but I think the estimate basically reflects the TV/Streaming contracts per sport as a whole.

I think the expectation is that the SEC schools will use the 75-15-5-5 formula based on the House settlement. Yes, schools have discretion to customize allocations under that settlement, but if what is being written holds true SEC schools will follow those guidelines

Is there anything you do t bitch and cry about. Geezus.

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Some of y’all just don’t understand free market economics

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Says the person who supports continued subsidies to one of LSU’s worst performing sports from a financial perspective.

That doesn’t sound very free market to me.

(Note: I love all of these sports and am a season ticket holder to both LSU Baseball and LSUWBB as well as football and MBB.)

1. College WBB draws more fans and more TV viewers than college baseball. That is a fact.

2. Fan/media interest in WBB nationally is on the rise with college baseball remaining steady.

I have no solution to the revenue sharing issue, but reducing LSUWBB to less than the 5% recommended in the House Settlement should not happen.

Personally, I would not give any sport revenue sharing at LSU except fball, MBB, WBB, and baseball.

Most people in the USA dont know crap about college baseball.....
Just the way it is.

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Anybody who says something like this is completely clueless. No matter how bad McMahon is, that is the only other sport that every year BRINGS IN MONEY. Insanity

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NCAA men’s basketball as a whole brings in money. The LSU MBB team makes money simply by existing. Reducing expenditure on MBB would not reduce the amount they get from the TV contract. The question is what revenue over and above TV revenue each sport brings in and how much additional revenue is generated for each additional dollar spent on that sport. Spending on other sports could have greater marginal value than spending on MBB even if those sports lose money overall and MBB makes money on paper. If, for example, the money spent on WBB to win an NC and be a yearly contender were all transferred to MBB, would MBB be just as successful? No, they wouldn’t because the competition is much more fierce. And, it’s not just about profit/loss. Outside of football, EVERY other sport loses money if you lay aside TV contracts. The question is just as much how successful each team can be competitively with that money.

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Can you imagine the amount of money that could be made if they enjoy any amount of success.

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Bama MBB went from around LSU MBB profit margin ($1-2 million) to 5+ million 2 years ago and almost $10 million last year by being good.

There is no other non-football college sport than can get close to those profits in a year. Even if you maxed out the potential of all others sports combined, it wouldn’t reach that mark.

Reducing investment in your second most profitable sport with significant potential is terrible advice.

People DO watch it. You dont and You dont know people who do. Men do watch believe it or not. Im surprised as you when call on the phone and ask what they're doing.
How much do men and women's gymnastics, golf, soccer, swimming lose? Does anybody watch?

Would love the downvotes to explain why it makes sense to give WBB its own standalone 5% of the revenue share.

Give it to WBB because (LSU)MBB sucks.

I heard Johnson give a very impressive speech last week. One thing he said was that schools will have to start making choices about which sports they want to favor over others when it comes to NIL. I took this to mean that some people didn’t care that men’s basketball is at the bottom of the totem pole right now.