Arkstfan

Actually y'all tried to money whip us with an empty wallet.

Guess I'm dense. Why are we funny expecting to get paid as agreed? Everyone else has been able to wire money ahead of the deadline.

http://www.kait8.com/story/35122373/a-state-no-payment-received-for-mccasland-buyout

KAIT in Jonesboro reporting that McCasland's buyout has not been paid.

It would have been four for the Sun Belt but NC State moved their game at Troy to 2020.

This year MWC teams hosting power teams: Virginia at Boise State Oregon State at Colorado State Oregon at Wyoming Stanford at SDSU Now a control group. The Sun Belt Wake Forest at App State Miami at Arkansas State Oklahoma State at South Alabama When you consider that there are only 15 G5 schools (soon 14) and 12 P5 schools in the combined Mountain, Pacific, and Hawaiian time zones I'm a bit surprised MWC doesn't leverage more power school opponents.

Speculation is they cut back Boise's most favored status (ie. keep more money based on appearances) because they are expecting to take a hair cut. They are already talking about their digital network which is now partnered with Campus Insiders picking up more content. As I've said before, we are moving into a world where TV goes down the rabbit hole that music has gone down. No one but proven stars get upfront money and everyone else is paid by the listen uh watch. I figure the networks will pay some money to fill in weeknight slots and obscure channel slots but the bulk of the future money is going to be based on how many tune in and watch.

Simple question. How much of a conference's overhead could be eliminated by consolidation? Whether or not you shuffle the lineup, why can't CUSA and Sun Belt consolidate their administrative operations. There is more work compiling stats and sending press releases and organizing championship events but I bet if you combine the administrative operations you don't need as many people and don't need to lease as much office space. Why not do multi-year agreements with an eastern and western city for the conference basketball tournament and flip CUSA and Sun Belt between the locations each year. 2018 CUSA plays in the west city, Sun Belt plays in the east city, flip in 2019, flip back 2020, and again in 2021. TV deals are near identical, why not sync up the contracts and negotiate them as one deal? Don't have to change the line-ups, they remain independent conferences that just jointly share administrative costs.

Unless someone can get legislation through the NCAA that permits a merged league to keep all its voting power and auto bids a merger wouldn't happen. Now could such legislation pass? I could see Big 10 and Pac-12 merging. They are pretty much on the same page on most issues and would be a hell beast in TV or see the Big XII being for it in the hopes of merging with Pac-12 or ACC. Large conferences were the norm when the NCAA was weak and did little other than create playing rules. Conferences were large so everyone in the region would play by the same recruiting rules and scholarship rules. Schools made their own schedules and you might never play some members of the conference. Going very large makes some sense. If you want pro basketball on your network you have once choice bid against everyone else who wants pro basketball. You want college football you can get in with just a couple conferences and cover most of the country. Price gets too high just step aside and go after someone else. Fewer players the higher the value. Absent that. I cannot imagine the media / messageboard fantasy of both leagues sitting down and dividing up. Knowing them, I could totally see Massaro and Selig leading a revolt to move CUSA East or CUSA East plus UAB to the Sun Belt and renaming the league and leaving it up to CUSA West's 6 or 7 teams to figure out what to do next.

UALR's volleyball is almost all international. AState had the Sun Belt golfer of the week and track performer of the week. Both internationals. Academic side of universities seem to like the internationals

Needs to take care of his academics. Was at prep school to get eligible and quit to go to Spain. Assume he's taking some sort of correspondence courses.

Presumably staff is on a similar timeline. Slow announcements likely designed to avoid paying two staffs any longer than needed. We are expecting Balado to name his staff Friday or Monday when McCasland's staff goes off payroll. Know for certain one is already picked but not named.

I've never cared enough to verify it but I've heard the claim that UConn doesn't dominate the recruiting of high school all-Americans like say Kentucky but then again UConn isn't replacing most of its team every year like Kentucky

Anyone know when contracts for Benford's staff expire? Might explain the delay. AState has done its assistant contracts so that if the head coach leaves the assistant contracts expire at the end of that pay period. All of his guys are unemployed on Friday.

Balado was in the final group last year but the NCAA cloud was over Louisville. He was only there 8 months of the time of the assistant who got in trouble so with a clean bill of health from the NCAA go with the guy you liked a lot last year

Has Jareem Dowling been mentioned at UNT? He recruited the 6'10" Russian we signed.

Hodge wasn't short list at AState.

Not going to pay $600,000 for no NCAA appearance and a late season collapse. Grant's a great guy and as I said before ya'll are going to love him. I'll see ya'll down the road when everyone gets over their mashed feelings.

You guys are shelling out a crap ton of money to hire a coach. HELL YOU HIRED A COACH AWAY FROM A DIVISION I PROGRAM and all you can do is get your panties wadded. Act big time, fake it till you feel it.

You are full of shit because you wouldn't have replied if you didn't give two shits.. Made yourself a liar with that. His job ain't to make you happy. His job is to hire winning coaches and provide them with the resources to be successful. Worrying about the feelings of the fans of another school isn't in the job description.

Be rubbed the wrong way. Terry is a badass AD. Played football at AState and in basically a half decade has made more successful football and basketball hires than most athletic directors will ever make. Took AState from the second lowest budget in FBS to the upper half of G5 while reducing the percentage of the budget coming from the school. Completely new press box built, new indoor practice facility, and getting ready to start on a new football complex, pushed season tickets past 10,000 two years in a row, signed three P5 schools to come into play along with home/homes with various AAC schools.

Oh get real. Every coach says the new gig is his dream job. He will never repeat that. You are low. Significantly low.

I had no doubt he would be willing to come, I mean he bailed Abilene after two months. He seems to have a real comfort zone. I just never expected UNT would cut a half million check just for the right to enter into a contract.

From AState press conference. Before anything about UNT came up, AState offered McCasland more money and an extension. Recently went to the AD stating there were family issues and obligations creating a problem. Friday said was talking to UNT. Wren called AState on Friday. Today was made an offer and accepted. McCasland told AD this 100% a family issue. AState made no counter offer "We took him at his word that this wasn't about money" McCasland did meet with the team. Asked who reached out to who, AD said "I'll never know" AD says only surprise he had in the process was the size of the UNT offer Understand he will be second highest paid coach in the league. Several of our candidates are coaching or assistants in the NCAA Tournament.

Well let's see how you fellas act when you get a coach hired away. Especially when the one hiring away is in a conference rated 10 spots beneath you and the school is rated 200 spots below you and historically draws worse.