You beat me to it. I was going to say almost the same thing. I've been to games in Austin and College Station over the years and walked long distances to those stadiums. Especially the TAMU games. These young students at UNT should have no problem walking to DATCU stadium. Putting a winning team on the field makes the walk even easier.
Another DJ?
DJ ADHD would never approve. He doesn't want any competition when he is playing 5 different songs in 10 seconds. He doesn't even want to let the band play.
We received $1.13M in conference distributions our first year in the AAC. Half of the conference members received multiples of that number. How long does that go on? It puts us at an untenable competitive disadvantage. Was that the best we could have done? Don't know.
Team travel went from $2.898M to $4.329M, an increase of $1.431M. I doubt travel to the west is materially different than travel to the east, so this number is already baked in.
We paid $1.404M in severence in order to hire Morris. If Morris was the one we really wanted, tell me he would not have been around this year or next year or the year after. Was he some super hot commodity that multiple schools were bidding on and going to beat us to the punch? Was he really worth that premium? I don't think so. Bad (and costly) decision by our AD, but fortunately this expense goes away this year.
We pay almost as much for the AD and Support staff $8.432M as we do in coaches salaries $9.223M (a difference of only $791K). Add in $4.083M of Admin Overhead (wink, wink) and we're up to $12.515M for the AD and Support staff.
There is plenty of money in the AD's budget, we just have a poorly managed Athletic Department.
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