Is Revenue Sharing the Glass Slipper?

[MCMLXXX]

Could impending rev-share changes help Cinderellas in the future? 'Everybody will be in the game' - Yahoo Sports

[NT80]

9 minutes ago, MCMLXXX said:

Could impending rev-share changes help Cinderellas in the future? 'Everybody will be in the game' - Yahoo Sports

I thought it first this was about G5 type programs, but it's all about the Big East...non-power schools (without football) that have elite basketball.  They can pour more money into paying players than most power schools can...because they don't have to also pay football players. 

There was an interesting side text about "illegal payments" may be coming back too...

As many as a dozen non-power league Division I schools — many of them in the Big East — are planning to spend at least $5 million on their men’s basketball roster next year, with a smaller group hoping to reach the $6 million and $7 million marks, those with knowledge of the plans told Yahoo Sports.

To keep up, power conference schools may need to circumvent the new rev-share pool cap by orchestrating third-party and booster-backed name, image and likeness deals for athletes — essentially violating what the NCAA’s own attorney describes as the “central part” of the landmark House settlement agreement: prohibiting booster pay.

“I know our coaches are worried. They’ve openly talked about it,” Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor said. “That’s where the rumors start to fly about circumventing the cap. Are we going to go back under the table again?”

[Dannymacfan]

What this tell us is we need to drop that Albatross of a football program and focus on basketball.  I am a football guy but also a businessman.  I cannot disagree with their assessment.  UNT should drop football and focus on basketball is the bottom line.

[NT80]

3 minutes ago, Dannymacfan said:

What this tell us is we need to drop that Albatross of a football program and focus on basketball.  I am a football guy but also a businessman.  I cannot disagree with their assessment.  UNT should drop football and focus on basketball is the bottom line.

No way.  You're only saying that now because basketball is good at the moment.  8 years ago with Benford our basketball was awful for the full 5 years of his tenure.  

It appears Ross is getting ready to abandon us, and that means lots of change again for men's basketball....and usually it doesn't always go well like it did this time.   

If basketball goes back to mediocrity we need football to be the lead show horse again.

And be reminded....Texas is a football state!   It also drives the bus in conference expansion considerations!

[CMJ]

Dropping football would be crazy, but as I've said before shifting some more money to basketball would be smart.  A few hundred thousand goes way further in hoops than on the gridiron.

[MeanGreenZen]

5 hours ago, Dannymacfan said:

What this tell us is we need to drop that Albatross of a football program and focus on basketball.  I am a football guy but also a businessman.  I cannot disagree with their assessment.  UNT should drop football and focus on basketball is the bottom line.

Keep playing football but maybe at D2 or D3 level. We can’t win a D1 national championship in football so what is the point?