Louisiana athletics operated at $8 million deficit during 2023 fiscal year

[Turbine]

Looking at the financial picture just presented, where do you think they would have raised the money for a splash hire?

Remember, we were already $2.6mm in the hole Napier's last year even with those two years or record performances in football.

Yet they somehow they spent more money, not less.

Evidently in the wrong places.

More money on the motivational imagination generating hire had the potential to pay for itself.

A non stop Desormeax tour may have worked too but that didn't happen.

[Scott Malkinson]

Couldn’t afford to get out. Gas is expensive.

Maybe the can charter a flight to local Festivals ?

[facelessjonmoon]

Can’t frame it that way being the first “revenge tour” wasn’t received well. Just win.

100%

Just win is right. Don't talk about it. Be about it

[ZoomZoom]

100%

Just win is right. Don't talk about it. Be about it

And MH/UL needs to embrace and grow from success. Not farm it out to people caught up in academics v athletics or 3rd parties.

[CajunVic]

Yet they somehow they spent more money, not less.

Evidently in the wrong places.

More money on the motivational imagination generating hire had the potential to pay for itself.

A non stop Desormeax tour may have worked too but that didn't happen.

This is not helping. More salt to the wound usually generates a response of OUCH, not send me more.

[ManAboutTown]

Looking at the financial picture just presented, where do you think they would have raised the money for a splash hire?

Remember, we were already $2.6mm in the hole Napier's last year even with those two years or record performances in football.

Napier's last year was the first time we didn't see a decline in YOY season ticket sales since 2014. It's incorrect to assume as "splash hire" wouldn't have A) continued the excitement and B) been worth the investment. I'll say again, private money pledged $3mm to keep Napier. Those boosters would have spent that on a "splash hire."

[ManAboutTown]

Oh Ohhhh...FCS. Someone finally said those horrible three words. That's exactly where this football and basketball programs should be and are headed there on a rapid pace given out superior financial resume'.

Get what you pay for. The leadership runs it like a popsicle stand and these are the results.

[CajunT]

Oh Ohhhh...FCS. Someone finally said those horrible three words. That's exactly where this football and basketball programs should be and are headed there on a rapid pace given out superior financial resume'.

Just think, you can wear your, "GEAUX TO HELL McNEESE SHIRT" every year and drive to Lake Charles, Hammond, Beaumont, Thibodeaux and Natchitoches. Just like the old days! GEAUX CAJUNS!

[ManAboutTown]

Just think, you can wear your, "GEAUX TO HELL McNEESE SHIRT" every year and drive to Lake Charles, Hammond, Beaumont, Thibodeaux and Natchitoches. Just like the old days! GEAUX CAJUNS!

Be careful T. You'll give Boomer a boner from the 70s.

[CajunVic]

Napier's last year was the first time we didn't see a decline in YOY season ticket sales since 2014. It's incorrect to assume as "splash hire" wouldn't have A) continued the excitement and B) been worth the investment. I'll say again, private money pledged $3mm to keep Napier. Those boosters would have spent that on a "splash hire."

I believe your assumption that the private money would have spent that on a splash hire and again the next year and the next year and the next year to satisfy that salary obligation is tantamount to unicorn farts and gold at the end of the rainbow. This private money knew that Napier would have been here for just another year in all probability, so that was just a one time investment. If Napier had stayed, that probably would have had him embarking upon the tract that HUD took by staying too long. NIL and free transfer with immediate eligibility would have bit Napier in the ass here even more than it has done in Florida. Napier probably never would have become a rich man or at least as rich of a man as he is now.

Further, with the advent of NIL and free transfer eligibility, it is pie in the sky to believe that even the splash hire would have been in a position to compete and retain the talent necessary to keep the kind of success Napier had going (at that point, not only the funding for the splash hire that we do not have would have been missing but the funding for NIL requirements would also have been needed).

None of this is doomsday, its only taking a realistic view of the situation which we find ourselves in at the moment and also shows the reasons why our records the past two years can't totally be blamed on CMD. I believe even you have admitted the difficult conditions and market that CMD was tossed into. It is the same market a splash hire would have been tossed into.