DentonLurker

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

Man, I would love to hear people say this about Mosley and Morris!

Generally, I would agree with you, but we would need to commit a lot more resources to marketing and promoting those areas before I’d take our head coaches there. Just a few short years ago, I went to the one in Fort Worth and there were maybe 20 people there outside of athletic, university, and alumni association staff members, and of those 20 probably 10 were people who came down from Denton. I can’t imagine how disappointing it is as a head coach to show up to those kind of events with the lack of support. I kind of wish they’d find a way to incorporate some musical group like the Eli Young Band to help drum up interest in these. We need to find some kind of “hook” for these events to build these up.

Did they ever find them?

I think Texas Monthly ranked them #2 in Texas last year. You should definitely go try it. It's definitely in my Top 5 I've ever had. They're still pretty new in the BBQ world. I want to say they only opened the storefront in 2019, but I could be wrong.

I'd add that they see it modeled that you move on when you have a "better opportunity" even if they're only at a school a year or two. It's what their coaches do, it's what the administrators at the schools do, etc. The days of coaches/ADs spending their entire career at just a few schools is pretty much over.

Not questioning our ability to count seats. I’ve just been around enough construction projects in my career to realize sometimes things just get messed up. I remember there being some club seats they said were on the drawings that ended up just not being there when DATCU opened despite being on all the drawings. There’s a reason home inspectors find things missing or installed incorrectly in new home builds.

I'm sure they know how many seats are supposed to be installed, but with construction/renovation you just never know until it's done. Since they're re-seating the area, it makes sense to me to wait until they're installed and you can see and touch them to make sure. Could you imagine if they ran into something unexpected and a row is short a seat yet they already assigned seats for that row?

Care to elaborate on why you think he deserves to be the starter?