When G5s sell their fans on Idiocy

[untjim1995]

UNLV AD: We are a premier program and we can be a great power, so we need to hire a top end coach and pay him a huge salary

Just a few months later--we need $$$ for a terrible contract we just issued

UNLV short on funds to pay football coach Dan Mullen’s full contract | UNLV | Sports

[NT80]

3 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

UNLV AD: We are a premier program and we can be a great power, so we need to hire a top end coach and pay him a huge salary

Just a few months later--we need $$$ for a terrible contract we just issued

UNLV short on funds to pay football coach Dan Mullen’s full contract | UNLV | Sports

Sounds more like an AD who is a salesman but can't do math.

[GMG_Dallas]

Didn't Colorado do the same with Deion? If I'm not mistaken, they depended on the hype train to pay up, which it did. Wonder if the UNLV AD thought this could be a similar situation...

[untjim1995]

25 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

Didn't Colorado do the same with Deion? If I'm not mistaken, they depended on the hype train to pay up, which it did. Wonder if the UNLV AD thought this could be a similar situation...

If so, what a colossal misjudgment. Deion is a smidge different from Dan Mullen

[GMG_Dallas]

31 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

If so, what a colossal misjudgment. Deion is a smidge different from Dan Mullen

I completely agree. 

[SMU2006]

[JT Hammons]

Big money donors - yes even at SMU - are getting fatigue from all of this spending of their hard earned money and no ROI.  Especially tough sell at a G5 who already has the deck stacked against them.

[Mean Green 93-98]

15 minutes ago, JT Hammons said:

Big money donors - yes even at SMU - are getting fatigue from all of this spending of their hard earned money and no ROI.  Especially tough sell at a G5 who already has the deck stacked against them.

No ROI at SMU?  They were in the CFP this past year, and look to be one of the better teams in the ACC going forward.  I can't imagine too many of the donors had much higher expectations than that, realistically speaking.

[SMU2006]

36 minutes ago, JT Hammons said:

Big money donors - yes even at SMU - are getting fatigue from all of this spending of their hard earned money and no ROI.  Especially tough sell at a G5 who already has the deck stacked against them.

Where is the donor fatigue at SMU?  We just hired away a sitting AD in the Big 10 (Damon Evans - Maryland) who was previously the AD at Georgia.  Raised over $150m last year alone and NIL collective second behind only Miami in the ACC.

Edited Friday at 04:58 PM by SMU2006

[cousin oliver]

19 minutes ago, SMU2006 said:

Where is the donor fatigue at SMU?  We just hired away a sitting AD in the Big 10 (Damon Evans - Maryland) who was previously the AD at Georgia.  Raised over $150m last year alone and NIL collective second behind only Miami in the ACC.

Impressive indeed.  But what if you don't see the reults you hoped for quickly?  What then?  I think that was what the OP was theorizing.

[NT80]

1 hour ago, SMU2006 said:

Where is the donor fatigue at SMU?  We just hired away a sitting AD in the Big 10 (Damon Evans - Maryland) who was previously the AD at Georgia.  Raised over $150m last year alone and NIL collective second behind only Miami in the ACC.

As Florida State showed, NIL is not a guarantee of success.    

[SMU2006]

41 minutes ago, NT80 said:

As Florida State showed, NIL is not a guarantee of success.    

Yes but the post was framed as "donor fatigue".  I see zero signs of donor fatigue at SMU.  Quite the contrary.

[MeanGreenZen]

21 hours ago, SMU2006 said:

Where is the donor fatigue at SMU?  We just hired away a sitting AD in the Big 10 (Damon Evans - Maryland) who was previously the AD at Georgia.  Raised over $150m last year alone and NIL collective second behind only Miami in the ACC.

I’m not sure you are going to love that new AD. No one could have taken him away from Georgia if they had wanted to keep him. They didn’t. And Maryland? When is the last time they have done anything in a sport that matters? Looks like a “pass the trash” situation and SMU is going to find themselves holding the bag soon. 

[UNTLifer]

On 3/21/2025 at 1:46 PM, SMU2006 said:

Yes but the post was framed as "donor fatigue".  I see zero signs of donor fatigue at SMU.  Quite the contrary.

Are you in our conference or on our future schedule?  

[NT80]

On 3/21/2025 at 1:46 PM, SMU2006 said:

Yes but the post was framed as "donor fatigue".  I see zero signs of donor fatigue at SMU.  Quite the contrary.

I haven't given a penny to $mu... and I'm fatigued hearing about it!