House / NCAA

[VObserver]

NCAA should lower number of sports members are required to carry to help offset this new expense/revenue reduction. Maybe down to 10 or 12 since all this payback money is the consequence. Our ticket prices shouldn't increase to pay for this turd sandwich of a deal.

As for the mostly non-spectator sports administration will need to evaluate which are most costly to operate for possible elimination. For example do you have to cut two men's sports to cut one women's sport? So if men's tennis and cross country were offed, can you then cut off women's soccer? Imagine its complicated no matter what is decided upon.

Eliminating cross country wouldn't lower your scholarship costs; you would still need those distance runners for Track.

[R1Letterman]

Easy to drop baseball; not so easy to drop any Title 9 protected sport [e.g. softball]

Thats the conventional wisdom and the book answer. But the same media that hyped up SEC title 9 strides fails to ask whybdid they wait 50 years, and the stats dont show that it is being followed anyhow.

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/col...rt-1234778480/

[R1Letterman]

NCAA should lower number of sports members are required to carry to help offset this new expense/revenue reduction. Maybe down to 10 or 12 since all this payback money is the consequence. Our ticket prices shouldn't increase to pay for this turd sandwich of a deal.

As for the mostly non-spectator sports administration will need to evaluate which are most costly to operate for possible elimination. For example do you have to cut two men's sports to cut one women's sport? So if men's tennis and cross country were offed, can you then cut off women's soccer? Imagine its complicated no matter what is decided upon.

You assume your goals are the same as the ncaa's... raising it would be best way to break away

[Duckster]

Eliminating cross country wouldn't lower your scholarship costs; you would still need those distance runners for Track.

Very good point sir. Certainly not against either. But if the operations money is getting slimmer in order to pay the players is it better to reduce costs across the board of all sports or trim a few off if allowed? And I think I interpret R1Letterman's point that all of this is intentional by the P4 and I'll throw in the corporate media with them cheerleading this set up for a breakaway. It all stinks to high heaven.

[Cajun_in_NM]

Ultimately, UL can either adapt and figure out how to mimic this ruling - getting better athletes for sports. Or, UL can keep the status quo and fall behind, like an ever growing snowball down a mountain.

[CajunVic]

Ultimately, UL can either adapt and figure out how to mimic this ruling - getting better athletes for sports. Or, UL can keep the status quo and fall behind, like an ever growing snowball down a mountain.

what or whose money tree will support the “getting better athletes for sports”

[Cajun_in_NM]

what or whose money tree will support the “getting better athletes for sports”

It's a matter of redirecting funds. Is the RCAF removed to allow for direct funding? Are staffs cut to allow for player payouts? Are admin seats removed to generate funds? Are coaches asked to make $100K investments in their teams? Maybe, and hear me out, maybe the staff for either athletics or RCAF try to find new donors by selling a dream. Maybe there's hope that UL can be the poster child for pushing through when all other contemporaries say "G5 doesn't have to, so we won't".

This is the moment in time, many have been warning of. Most thought it'd be conference realignment; it isn't conference - it's cash. UL can build a new dream with a new home, by forgoing other conference-isms, and going head-first into payments.

Admittedly, I don't like the thought of paying kids huge monies, when the paying public makes less than them. But, these are the rules given. So, you can either beat them at their own game, or concede. I don't suggest choosing concede.

[CajunVic]

It's a matter of redirecting funds. Is the RCAF removed to allow for direct funding? NO

Are staffs cut to allow for player payouts? NOT OVER STAFFED SO NO

Are admin seats removed to generate funds? DOUBT WE HAVE ROOM THERE EITHER

Are coaches asked to make $100K investments in their teams? WE DONT HAVE ONE COACH WITH A SALARY HIGH ENOUGHT TO DO THAT OTHER THAN POSSIBLY THE BIG FISH

Maybe, and hear me out, maybe the staff for either athletics or RCAF try to find new donors by selling a dream. WE TAPPED OUT ON THE NEW STADIUM AND STILL NEED MORE FUNDING FOR THAT

Maybe there's hope that UL can be the poster child for pushing through when all other contemporaries say "G5 doesn't have to, so we won't". GOOD LUCK WITH THAT ONE

LIKE I ASKED, WHERE IS YOUR MONEY TREE

ITS PAY TO PLAY TIME AND TO COMPETE IN THAT ARENA, YOU NEED A MONEY TREE

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[R1Letterman]

Very good point sir. Certainly not against either. But if the operations money is getting slimmer in order to pay the players is it better to reduce costs across the board of all sports or trim a few off if allowed? And I think I interpret R1Letterman's point that all of this is intentional by the P4 and I'll throw in the corporate media with them cheerleading this set up for a breakaway. It all stinks to high heaven.

When speaking costs, what are the minimum number of meets/matches/events required for the various sports? Also i seem to recall a time when coaches of the smaller sports (even not necessarily smaller, such as volleyball) were actual teaching faculty members, so that moves the salary cost out of athletics pot

[R1Letterman]

Speaking of lawsuits, im also surprised no academic student who was denied admission but had better credentials than an athelte (especially a preferred walk on) hasnt sued.
There was a case of someone suing texas because they had to go to TSAB, and won at SCOTUS but wasnt about sports taking up the last admissions slot, and case was against texas not tsab...but Surprised more who went there havent sued, lol

[CajunNation]

People, even if we take a time Machine back to the early 70's and we're raking in the oil money again, we don't have people in the administration capable of puting away their ideologies in order to utilize that money like we should.

We will not be chasing NIL money. We will not be following SMU into the ACC or Houston into the B12. Deal with it.

[cjr3888]

Huge changes coming to college baseball. Look for the P4 to basically become short season single A ball. They will give full scholarships plus stipends to all players on their roster. Everyone else will pay what they can but be a different division with their own CWS.