Funding Athletics

[Cajunfanatico]

HC, East Carolina didn't approach the AAC with a female sport. The Big 12 doesn't hold softball in as high a regard as per say the SEC. But even our baseball team would be a non-starter as well for Big 12 membership. At this point, our goal is to focus on the AAC and that is the best we can do at this time because we are so far behind in our commitment to grow athletics beyond the SBC .

The P5 will eventually down size itself from the bottom programs in the major conferences because it creates more revenue for them with premium scheduling match ups to sell networks. The bottom of the P5 that will be purged will join in with the Top of the G5 to create their own separation with their own premium scheduling match ups to sell networks and on-line streaming. Everyone else that is left in the G5 will create their own regional conferences. You will have three levels of separation at that point.

We want to be at the top of the G5 and that should be our focus 5 year, 7 years to 10 years out. That is the best we can do short term and we better stay focused on that goal while increasing our budget and improving facilities.

I'm going to copy and paste your comment in another thread where I was asked what the coming changes might look like.

[Turbine]

Interesting look back four years later

[R1Letterman]

HC, East Carolina didn't approach the AAC with a female sport. The Big 12 doesn't hold softball in as high a regard as per say the SEC. But even our baseball team would be a non-starter as well for Big 12 membership. At this point, our goal is to focus on the AAC and that is the best we can do at this time because we are so far behind in our commitment to grow athletics beyond the SBC .

The P5 will eventually down size itself from the bottom programs in the major conferences because it creates more revenue for them with premium scheduling match ups to sell networks. The bottom of the P5 that will be purged will join in with the Top of the G5 to create their own separation with their own premium scheduling match ups to sell networks and on-line streaming. Everyone else that is left in the G5 will create their own regional conferences. You will have three levels of separation at that point.

We want to be at the top of the G5 and that should be our focus 5 year, 7 years to 10 years out. That is the best we can do short term and we better stay focused on that goal while increasing our budget and improving facilities.

I disagree with first paragraph, the headquarters of all of softball is in big 12 country for goodness sakes….. SEC is a janey come lately, watch and see if they keep up the same pace of funding after their plan failed.

They wanted to develop a loss leader strategy that would initially price others out (read pac 12 and us) then once they were gone they would scale back.

it is all a house of cards and a lie, they claim it is because of title ix, not true, many other ways to make a title ix impact and they waited well over twenty years to “get serious” about title ix, fat chance.(errr body positive chance) it looks like they spent more but most of that was initial startup costs, shouldnt count toward a yearly budget, now check, all these years later see if they renovate those previously new state of the art stadiums to keep up or not.

[Duckster]

There is a serious review study by a legislative committee being done to get at how the Louisiana state income tax can be reduced then eliminated. It won't happen under the current governor in his final year, but a more conservative governor could get behind it. The committee has to identify tax exemptions to eliminate and of course reduce frivolous spending of taxpayer dollars in order to offset lowering the State income tax. Its not a stretch of the imagination to see these college sports subsidies phased out or at least substantially downsized in the years ahead.

[CajunNation]

There is a serious review study by a legislative committee being done to get at how the Louisiana state income tax can be reduced then eliminated. It won't happen under the current governor in his final year, but a more conservative governor could get behind it. The committee has to identify tax exemptions to eliminate and of course reduce frivolous spending of taxpayer dollars in order to offset lowering the State income tax. Its not a stretch of the imagination to see these college sports subsidies phased out or at least substantially downsized in the years ahead.

This is some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Louisiana might be saved after all.

Next, let's rewrite the State constitution.

[CajunEXPRESS]

This is some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Louisiana might be saved after all.

Next, let's rewrite the State constitution.

Those who hate income taxes and equate them to Texas, Florida, and Tennessee seem to ignore the much higher property taxes in those states. Louisiana per person state revenue is very similar to those states. Getting rid of income taxes would, to be fair, require reduction of homestead exemption, and returning much of the state money to the locals who would need higher property taxes. That’s a more complete picture of the cause and effect.

[WestUCajun]

Those who hate income taxes and equate them to Texas, Florida, and Tennessee seem to ignore the much higher property taxes in those states. Louisiana per person state revenue is very similar to those states. Getting rid of income taxes would, to be fair, require reduction of homestead exemption, and returning much of the state money to the locals who would need higher property taxes. That’s a more complete picture of the cause and effect.

Plus those states get a larger cut of sales taxes. Louisiana gets 4% while Florida, Texas, and Tennessee get 6, 6.25, and 7% respectively.

[Cajun Monkee]

According to others we were never actually invited in the first place.

Yeah, I think this would take legislative action.

And remember, a couple of years ago, a legislator tried to introduce a Measure, limiting the travel budgets of all athletic programs that weren’t LSU. This would have forced everybody to have an incredibly regionally small geographic area within which they could travel.

If I’m not mistaken, it failed miserably.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Yeah, I think this would take legislative action.

And remember, a couple of years ago, a legislator tried to introduce a Measure, limiting the travel budgets of all athletic programs that weren’t LSU. This would have forced everybody to have an incredibly regionally small geographic area within which they could travel.

If I’m not mistaken, it failed miserably.

We were exempt from the legislation. We used no state funds to travel.

[ZoomZoom]

UL just needs to address students attending sporting events to create future support. It’s a big part of the business model the is lacking presently.

2018 post…pre Covid…and nothing has improved.