Portal Out

[cajun4life]

I’m sorry, but we would need to increase our NIL budget by 100% in football to even begin to think about retaining guys.

[Cajunrunner]

I’m sorry, but we would need to increase our NIL budget by 100% in football to even begin to think about retaining guys.

Which is why I'm thinking use football as the sport to bring in money, i.e. play more money games, and just dump the excess into baseball. The Acadiana community, as it stands, isn't going to support UL football to the extend needed to be a consistent competitor going forward, and quite honestly, I can't blame them.

I'd rather invest my personal money in other sports where we can still have hope to compete on a regular basis.

[cajun4life]

Which is why I'm thinking use football as the sport to bring in money, i.e. play more money games, and just dump the excess into baseball. The Acadiana community, as it stands, isn't going to support UL football to the extend needed to be a consistent competitor going forward, and quite honestly, I can't blame them.

I'd rather invest my personal money in other sports where we can still have hope to compete on a regular basis.

I’m just a casual now, collegiate sports are in my rear view mirror.

Texas Tech has a $28M NIL budget for football alone.

[VObserver]

Texas Tech has a $28M NIL budget for football alone.

The law of unintended consequences.... Texas Tech has always had money; they just didn't go all in on athletics until NIL and the Portal created a system where a school can openly buy players. Now the relatively low budget P4's have to either spend those $50 mil TV checks on players, or they can't compete; and if they can't compete, they will soon find out that those who can compete will find a way to kick them out of the "haves" club and quit sending them checks.

[MarlinMan3]

Which is why I'm thinking use football as the sport to bring in money, i.e. play more money games, and just dump the excess into baseball. The Acadiana community, as it stands, isn't going to support UL football to the extend needed to be a consistent competitor going forward, and quite honestly, I can't blame them.

I'd rather invest my personal money in other sports where we can still have hope to compete on a regular basis.

I have long since advocatimg for letting schools choose which sports they want to focus on. Scholarship limit should be cumululative....not per sport... also a way to further your idea about saving money for another sports, how about go two or three years and just save, maybe even save the scholarship momey too, build up a warchest, then come out swinging

[RedBug58]

If it’s all about money ( and it is) we will never have enough money to compete until we have a medical school and a law school. And surely, the school to the east will never let that happen.

[CAJUNSby90]

Yes he is

Nope

[raginrevival]

All these great ideas, plans, schemes, etc.....but the big hurdle and question is how do you attract and retain players with NO money? Again UL has no money and the deficit is worse than previously stated! On top of that no to very little money coming in, stadium half empty, aging fan base who has somewhat carried the fundraising are slowly dying out.

[Turbine]

All these great ideas, plans, schemes, etc.....but the big hurdle and question is how do you attract and retain players with NO money? .

"Attract" no problem.

"Retain" BIG problem..

[Duckster]

The law of unintended consequences.... Texas Tech has always had money; they just didn't go all in on athletics until NIL and the Portal created a system where a school can openly buy players. Now the relatively low budget P4's have to either spend those $50 mil TV checks on players, or they can't compete; and if they can't compete, they will soon find out that those who can compete will find a way to kick them out of the "haves" club and quit sending them checks.

Fully agree. Drawing the line at the Top 48 revenue schools (out of 68 P4's), the incentives are too great for them to NOT thin out the P4 ranks. The numbers could thin out more. The realignment dominos will keep falling. In the meantime, it would make sense for NCAA members to vote for reducing the required number of sports. Too many mouths to feed in this high cost environment.