DentonLurker

We can keep making this excuse until we are blue in the face and our conference mates will keep outdrawing us for games.

I know he’s an SMU fan, but he’s not wrong on this. We should really avoid attendance smack.

I guess it looks like DATCU in that they're both football stadiums...

Threads like this are always a little funny to me. Literally all that you’ve suggested has been tried here. They’ve done it asking donors/ticket holders to make calls. They’ve tried athletes calling non-renewals. Hell, I remember a year McCarney made some calls. Until this university, note that I’m not preaching to most on this board, quits waiting for the stars to align before they will buy season tickets or donate to this program, it will continue to be what it is.

MGSF

Does that exist?

Man, I’d be so curious to see if the B12 can pull this off. Also, if the Ags run from Texas again, they might as well publicly admit they think Texas is the superior program.

The problem is, and has always been, that the highest levels don’t care about the lowest levels. They just want “theirs.” The big dogs in these conferences don’t even care about the fringe institutions in their own conferences. Why would they care about the American or any other conference schools?

That’s just for off-campus recruiters.

I’m pretty sure this shift to a smaller field of golfers happened a few years ago. Ask fewer people to pay more to participate and pocket the same amount of money by spending less per participant. Makes sense to me.

Took another step closer to a split today, in my opinion. Unlimited coaches is going to lead to some G5 coaches moving up the ladder for what were previously off-the-field positions.

For real though, even with this signing, I’m assuming QB1 is Rogers’ to lose, right?

I'm fine with them selling them on an individual game basis, but they should never be cheaper than what it costs me per game as a season ticket holder.

I think these are “fine.” They’re not going to get anyone hyped, but they’re not going to turn anyone away either. My personal thoughts, even though I know I’m in the minority, is to trick up the uniforms. The free pub you get for unique uniforms seems worth changing them up to me.

To answer the original question, I think facilities only really matter if you don’t have them. An indoor facility is pretty much an indoor facility. I can’t imagine very many recruiting battles are won or lost because one indoor facility is “better” than the next, but a recruiting battle might be won or lost because you have one or don’t have one. I do think facilities have slid down on the importance level from even a few years ago though.

I’ll be curious to see how that plays out. I feel like the IRS objection is going to still be there when donations to schools is still to directly pay athletes. You already can’t deduct donations tied to seat benefits. I don’t see how this is going to be deductible.

I have the same question. Also, is CFP revenue included in that NCAA number?

That major madness take is laughable at best.

Yeah, that looks like the recruit grabbed those pictures. That’s not coming from the school.

Are student fees being used to cover academic scholarships?

I'm so curious if this could eventually be the straw that breaks the back of mandatory student fees. It already feels rotten that you're requiring one student to pay for another student to go to school. Now, student-athletes are not only going to get school paid for but also get paid for NIL. It just doesn't feel sustainable that way either. I expect regular students to start pushing back at some point.

I sure would hope so.

Honestly, yes. I think the average Alabama fan commits more of their personal resources and time to supporting the team than the average NT fan. I feel like our revenue numbers prove that the commitment just isn’t great. That’s a reflection of administration decisions (dropping to I-AA “lack of commitment to athletics”), general lack of interest from students (“lack of commitment to athletics”), and general lack of financial support from fans (as you even mentioned “lack of commitment to athletics”). Forcing a tax on students is not “commitment”

Morris didn't say anything that most of us haven't already said or felt. Quite frankly, what he said has been true for a lot longer than many of us want to admit. Our lack of commitment to athletics (whether you want to blame it on administration, students, alumni, or realistically all of the above) has set us back and has been an issue for years. It still hasn't changed, and it's going to continue to come back to bite us for years to come. There has to be a clear divide at some point, even though I would argue there's been a fuzzy divide for a long time. It's just a matter of time at this point that it becomes crystal clear. We are not going to be in the top tier of that divide. Our stakeholders (I use this broadly and there are clear exceptions) have made that choice over however many years now. It's just going to finally come to a head.

P4? LOL