re: 32 DI Olympic sports teams have been cut since the House settlement

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This ain’t middle school sports. This is a business.

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Then it’s time to cut every sport besides basketball and football

Even lsu baseball would be cut because they can’t have a season with no opponents….

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What in the world would you know about athletic department financials of Sun Belt schools?

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Other than being a Louisiana Tech alum, serving on an advisory board there, going to high school with a former athletic directors kids, knowing the current athletic director, football coach, and staffers - nothing

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and aren’t “making too much money” not they’re not.

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Triple negative

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When the NCAA was first established (1906) there was nothing but the best intentions. I don’t think the organization’s founders could have foreseen that within 100 years, coaches would have yearly salaries in the millions of dollars, that stadiums would pack in fans in their hundreds of thousands, and that games would be watched by tens of millions of Americans on national television.

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if only they spent 100+ years rethinking how the most valuable assets were compensated instead of going after programs for free tattoos and other ticky tack recruiting violations

The NCAA might have still had some friends at various universities if they ruled with any semblance of equality instead of going after lesser programs for violations that are happening at every single program.

Even the most hardline self-righteous fanbase, Michigan, turned on them after the covid dead period/burgergate stuff.

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There’s these things called operating costs

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Congrats, you read about that term in a textbook.

Tell us what you think those are exactly at a place like ul when a new employee is hired. Show us the full depth of your stupidity.

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Other than being a Louisiana Tech alum, serving on an advisory board there, going to high school with a former athletic directors kids, knowing the current athletic director, football coach, and staffers - nothing

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Great please tell me what areas of Louisiana Tech’s athletic department are bloated. Please be specific.

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Cut that unneeded job that never should have existed, congrats you’ve funded women’s tennis

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Why tho?

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Desk, computer, paper, shredding services, increased janitorial costs.

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Desk and computer are fixed assets already in place from previous office occupants. Chair too, can’t believe you left that off. Light bulbs and air filters are also already in place.

Paper is on auto-delivery in bulk.

Shredding services, if they have them, is a contract with fixed terms on payments and pickups.

Janitors are staff members paid by the hour or contractors paid a fixed amount for the entire space they work.

Grasping at straws doesn’t even begin to describe. You are beyond pathetic

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If one more employee is hired, many of those are probably negligible, but when when departments have expanded like they have in the last couple of decades, those numbers become meaningful.

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How many additional reems of paper do you reckon ulm has had to buy for all these new employees over the years that could’ve instead funded women’s tennis?

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I don’t have UL’s numbers on hand, but Iowa state spends over $40 million per year just on the athletic department, not sports, the department

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Your stupidity in this thread started with you not knowing how large the ad staff is at ulm, what those people are paid, or how a small department like that operates. Stop trying to change the subject now.

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Especially on this site, where the purport to be freedom loving Americans (unless they don’t like something of course)

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Please, please, please! play the "muh capitalism!!!" card and finish the job of exposing your stupidity. I'm going to type this (again), so read it slowly so maybe even you can understand:

Prior to NIL, college football and basketball players were overpaid. Yes, overpaid. There is absolutely no market for 18-22 college football players. None. How do we know this? In the hundred odd years these poor players were "exploited" not one group of entrepreneurs came along and started a league using 18-22 yr old men. I wonder why? Could it be that outside of the university system and the traditions and culture of collegiate athletics these players have no market (muh capitalism!)??? People don't pay a single dollar to watch Tim Tebow, Derrick Henry or Marvin Harrison, Jr. They pay billions to see those players play for the University of Florida, University of Alabama and Ohio State University, respectively. That's their draw. How many people would have payed to see them play for a minor-league team several steps below the USFL or XFL? There's your answer.

Let's cut to the chase. If the player base wasn't (largely) black, and the coaching ranks weren't (largely) white, the do-gooders and race baiters wouldn't give a shite about the players. This is just another virtue signaling crusade for these idiots. And when they destroy collegiate athletics, they'll just move along like locusts to their next look-at-me cause.

If you support the freedom for compensation, then you should also support the freedom for universities to cut sports that sink money. If people really gave a damn about track and field or whatever, they would watch it on TV and attend in person. If it happens and no one cares, does it really even matter?

I dont care if the players get paid, if sports get cut or added, or if it turns into a semi pro league. Im to the point of football and wrestling only for college sports, and that is waning quickly.