Tom Bronco

Where are these team pics you speak of?

Sankey makes 4 million a year. He loves anything that makes it look like he is earning that salary although he negotiated a worse tv deal than the Big Ten commissioner who only makes a paltry 2 million.

I haven't read any of these messages that are stirring people up over this but you are I think correct about the TAF contributions and booster money paying for buyouts, etc. But there are still tons of expenses out there that the AD is paying. It just seems crazy that with the sold out games and tv revenue that they should ever run a deficit. I know that only men's football and basketball make any money and they have to pay for all the other sports but still? What I think is part of the problem is the huge staffs all of these sports have compared to 10 to 20 years ago, let alone in the good old days before 2000.
Even sports that lose money have endless assistant coaches, consultants, a staff member for every task and some that have weird titles and you can't even guess what they do. Director of Player Engagement? Chief Strategy Officer? Not only is there an assistant coach for every position there is an analyst also?

Does anyone know if the exhibition games will be televised or streamed? McNeese is the first one on 10/08. Then UCF on the 14th and finally Florida State on the s 24th.

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But as far as the international guys, they are enrolled and practicing and CWW says he is confident on ALL of them.

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Would you care to name a source for this or are you one of those fabled "insiders". If this is what CWW thinks then why has he not come out and publicly stated it? Why is there not one official word on any of this?

McMahon was supposedly as straight an arrow coach as you could find and yet he had three foreign pros on last years team. Tamba was from Spain, Zipper from Israel and McKinnon from Australia.

And yet when Wade announced his strategy was to recruit mainly foreign pros, all the hack sports announcers and sports writers and fellow coaches, they all blew a gasket! Seems like they are just after Wade to crucify him like they have been most of his career.

My theory on the difference between the baseball rules vs football and basketball is that money rules. Baseball is a minor sport when it comes to revenue and actually loses money for most schools. Therefore nobody really cares. But football and basketball make hundreds of millions and everyone is either looking for an advantage or trying to take away an advantage that its opponents have.

After the ridiculous NIL money that is being thrown around, calling these guys professional is just so much hypocrisy. A lot of Americans don't realize that there are no big time money making college sports in the rest of the world. A high school age player usually goes to a sports academy and the college age play for club teams that are professional. There is no way for them not to be a pro.

We just have to have faith that Wade will field a respectable team and be able to coach up some of the weaker players.

Yes, I noticed it on the first couple of runs but I also saw Kiffin talk to him on the sidelines after his first touchdown run and he seemed to be tucking it after that.

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We (LSU) didn't take the SEC to court. Jack Pyburn et al did.

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And do you really think those players weren't being recruited by Kiffin? Do you think that the court case didn't allow him to claim that he could now roster those players and that he didn't take two other players off the roster so that he could do this?

The SEC administration does not get money from Alabama taxes. Their money comes from the tv contract and is hundreds of millions of dollars of which they keep after distribution to member schools, around 29 million. Don't think they need any taxes.

When college pay athletes millions of dollars but self righteous Sankey claims he wants to keep professionals out. Well how could any court in the nation sanction that. I suppose they might be able to set up an age limit but their own 5 for 5 rule means there will be 23 or 24 year old players.

One thing we can all agree on I think is that the NCAA and SEC are just another form of government and are only interested in their own power and money above all else. I did a dive on the SEC. Greg Sankey had to testify in court about his income. In 2025 he made 4.8 million and a little less for each of the three prior years. In contrast, the Big Ten commissioner who was second, only made 2.4 million. The only reason we know about Sankey was that he was testifying in court because the SEC's official policy is not to publish their budget and very little other financial information. However, information from an IRS audit showed income of 852.6 million and expenses(including distribution to member schools) of 823.1. So one can infer net income of around 29 million. Not bad for old men who probably put in four hour work days and are on vacation for a couple of months. The really astonishing stat from the IRS was that the SEC has assets of 541. million! Wow! No wonder they want to hold on to power!!