re: PE forcing Utah to lay off Athletic Dept. employees

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How has the state legislature not intervened? Public universities should not be able to sell off their athletic departments to investors.

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Check the list of campaign contributions avd get back to us.

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Greedy investment fund with greedy investors took over Utah athletics

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At the direction of the greedy University of Utah board of trustees, right? Next you're going to explain how AI data centers are an issue, not data centers in general.

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PE = Private Equity University basically sold the athletic department to a group like BlackRock and now they are going to gut it in the name of profit, will see if Utah's sports gets better or worse, but PE usually bleeds something dry before moving on to the next victim.

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PE’s number one goal is to screw as many people as possible.


1. Quiet fire by making life hell by
2. Make seemingly nonsensical changes, including removing perks and hiring incompetent leadership who will kowtow to new “leadership”
3. Do mass layoffs; older workers close to retirement are priority (had a co-worker die of a heart attack after being laid off)
4. Scare people into finding other jobs
5. Fire more people
6. Repeat 4 and 5 until you grt what you want

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Coming to all schools near you

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Some will consider it, but the secure powers (mostly in the SEC/B10) don’t have actual need for hundreds of millions of investment. They already have brand exposure and comically gaudy infrastructure. We’re at a point that I’m not sure it’s even physically possible to improve on some of these locker rooms and other facilities. A school like LSU might need a new basketball arena once every 3-5 decades but you can get financing for it that’s way easier (and cheaper) than turning to PE and everything that comes with it

Utah agreed to this to overcome decades of under-investment and poor exposure relative to the athletic powers because they are absolutely desperate for a seat at the table once we get the inevitable consolidation of power programs away from FBS and free from NCAA oversight. It’s only going to be some schools in the Big12/ACC and a handful of G5 in a similar boat that will realistically consider this

There’s also a decent chance state legislatures (if not Congress) put this notion to bed entirely now that we actually have a case study

If you sell to a PE , you already know what will happen. Don’t blame the PE

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To be fair Im assuming ADs and colleges in general are all filled with positions that can easily be eliminated.

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correct. as much as I despise PE....the constant using them as some kind of scapegoat gets old and athletic departments are filled bloat. many ADs have become a jobs program

No problem with the layoffs.P5 AD's have been way overstaffed in recent years along with handing out ridiculous bonuses.

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Some will consider it, but the secure powers (mostly in the SEC/B10) don’t have actual need for hundreds of millions of investment.

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We’re in the age of $40 million football rosters and $30 million basketball rosters (and rising) now at that level… they all need more money. They will never not need more money if they’re trying to stay at the top

If you thought college sports was getting bad, PE will throw gasoline on the dumpster fire. Colleges that cant afford to compete in the new era will sell out to PE and theyll bleed it dry for every penny.

Just another reason they need to hurry up and set some NIL/transfer ground rules.

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Agreed… but in reality who else could afford or be willing to take the risk financially wise to keep some of these football programs competitive???…

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Sorry, but PE doesn't give a shite about winning championships. They only care about maximizing profits. Return on investment is PE's championship.