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What the top 75 college sports programs are worth
DerekJohnson
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We are a poor.
going to get richer in the Big once full share starts.
Not bad; we? made nearly $150k. Each player earning us? around $1k.
Does this take into account how much these AD's cost?
Because for example Ohio State has written articles about begging fans for more money because they have (or maybe had) a shit ton of athletic programs to pay for. Way, Way too many. Way more than Alabama that was used for comparison in the article.
Washington has a beach volleyball team. That makes no sense, even with the LA schools still in your conference. There's probably a ton of other programs that just don't make sense in Seattle. I don't necessarily like it, but we probably don't need both a baseball team and a softball team.
Ideally we need to strip way the fuck down and elevate the hockey team to DI. They already have a decent arena provided by the NHL.
Agreed with all that. Seattle has always been a very natural hockey town. We? supported the fuck out of the Thunder Birds before the McKracken showed up. I think UW hockey would def draw. We're a stone's throw away from Canada. And we dropped D1 swimming years ago. Not that I GAFF about swimming, but it's an indoor sport and we're surrounded by water everywhere you look.
Blackrock Huskies? They'll choke the sport to death, until not a cent is left, then demand UW build a new stadium or they'll transfer the football program to U British Columbia.
That's when I find a new sport.
Maybe women's contortion…
You need women's sports to match the 100 or or so men's football and basketball players. That's a lot of sports. And once upon a time say 3 years ago before NIL there was a lot more money floating around
Coaches giving money back after a bad season will become more common. In fact the market for a head coach may go down. NFL players get paid more than the coaches who get fired every 3 years
beach volleyball is the most efficient title 9 sport, that’s why so many schools are adding it. The stadium/facilities cost almost nothing. And travel costs are very minimal because you only play 3-4 tourneys a year.
10-15x EBITDA.
Chinteresting and that's a good point.
It's an example, and yes it's cheaper to build and remove a heap of sand compared to softball and baseball stadiums, but it makes no sense at UW specifically. Football, rowing, basketball, and the softball team should be essential and they figure out the rest. Maybe they cut no sports and all the administrative bloat gets taken out first.
But it's clear that even at schools like Oregon State and Wazzu that they took the promises from Larry Scott and the Pac12N and overspent and now that all this new shit is coming down the pipeline they'd rather sell the fans on paying for everything than figuring it out themselves.
as @RaceBannon said you need some women’s sports outside of what you listed to match the 85 (soon to be more) football scholarships. Beach vb gets you 25% of the way there and in a very cost efficient manner. Any other women’s sport will come with a higher cost.
College athletics just needs to come up some more cost-effective women’s sports:
This isn’t hard folks.
I've seen some smoke to suggest it but I've been wondering if there is momentum growing in the Title IX crowds about fairness since it's really pivoted from scholarships to NIL being the value of the athletes in football and basketball. I still think scholarship are an exceptional deal for non revenue sports athletes but I know that's not how those people think.
I'll always remember like 6 years ago when The Daily Show and John Oliver did segments on college sports and suddenly I had dipshits at work and ex's family members lecturing me about the hypocrisy of college sports with zero intel on how they actually work.
Yeah, it’s shocking how many stupid Americans there are. More dumbos out there than bright people that’s for sure.
It just seems wrong to give money to any athlete whose sport doesn’t bring in a positive return.
In other words, if you’re a cost center, fuck off and be happy you have a job. Or LEAVE.
Maybe some of the women’s sports can get creative. Topless Tennis. Bottomless Basketball. Naked Golf. That might turn a profit.
Wet T-shirt contests can be pretty competitive.
Also, sammich making? Not everyone can do it.
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