One big miss in this graphic is the money JP's going to spend on search firm for a new MBB coach. Instead of just hearing -- "Make a play!" we just might a get a coach. Talk about value for our players!
Pollard's Latest on Athlete Compensation
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And we have to be realistic - a vast majority of scholarship athletes are a net financial negative to the university. I always find it funny when athletes for sports that lose money are in on this NIL stuff. No - the university spends tens of thousands a year and gives you a platform to provide you with some market value. In return the university gets far less revenue than they spend on you being there.
And we have to be realistic - a vast majority of scholarship athletes are a net financial negative to the university. I always find it funny when athletes for sports that lose money are in on this NIL stuff. No - the university spends tens of thousands a year and gives you a platform to provide you with some market value. In return the university gets far less revenue than they spend on you being there.
I said it earlier, but the Pollard tweet seems more about how expensive it is to run an athletic program. I just don't see how it is at all related to player compensation. If it is, then I think there will be an even greater cost to running the athletic department.
So I see it as a tweet that is encouraging all of us to donate more to the Cyclone Club.
So I see it as a tweet that is encouraging all of us to donate more to the Cyclone Club.
Maybe I am missing something, so I apologize, but I read nothing in the tweet that says he does not want to pay athletes. It just says the department is making a huge commitment to the athletes. I suppose folks will read into the comments what they want.
I mean, how can you monetize the immense value of a plane ride to Lubbock, Texas on a Thursday night to play on ESPN+.
JP is a smart guy. He's talking about the "value of a scholarship" as a person who has been very much against NIL and knows it's in the public eye right now. If he wanted to make this about the cost of running an athletic department, he wouldn't be talking "value". He knows better.
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I appreciate Pollard a lot, and I totally get why he has to feel the way he does, but the cat is not going back in the bag.
That's what I was thinking.
Campbell + assistant salary pool: $8.5M
Scholarship players on roster: 85
"Exclusive Access to The Process: $100,000 per year, $500,000 over 5 years"
He's not a fan of paying players because he knows this will set ISU back in athletics. We will not complete in the pay for play model. Pay for play helps the big time athletic departments, kills the rest.
I’m against paying athletes because I think they are “paid” by getting free education. But, that would be maybe 50-75k at the high end. JP just overinflated the amount by so much that it was a complete fail on his part.
What about the schools who "profit" off of their abilities? Or Nike who profits off of their likeness through jersey sales?
Paying college athletes is a fascinating topic and I love talking about it. Jamie isn't wrong at all in his graphic, if anything, he's underselling the monetary value of most football athlete's scholarships. Athlete's also get many perks a regular student on scholarship would not.
However, I also think it would be interesting to flip this graphic around on Jamie and ask, "Looking at revenue of a normal, non-covid, academic year, what is each athletes worth to Iowa State?" Maybe I'm going about this wrong, but if I look at revenue from 2019, it was $95,411,884. Take that, divide it by total athletes (450). $212,026 per athlete, per year. Using 5 years from his model, that's $1,060,132 revenue per athlete over 5 years. This is all athletes, revenue and non revenue sports.
What does this all mean. No clue, but I thought it was interesting.
EDIT: Updated athlete number from 570 down to 450 for accuracy.
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I'm sure they would have liked to keep teams like Nebraska and Missouri in the Big 12 but that wasn't the decision of the schools that remained in the Big 12. I suppose they could have added Northern Illinois and Memphis but there was enough screaming when they added TCU and gave them a "promotion" to P5 status.
Donations from ISU alum/fans lag behind the entire conference, as well as many teams from other conferences. Anything that puts us further behind is scary. If we don’t see an increase in donations this year, will we ever? The 6K current donors (and tix) can only carry so much, before they are tapped.
There are only about 100 scholarship players at ISU that create revenue above their cost of their scholarship. When we agree to pay, will those 100 after a few years ask that it get divided by sport, because shouldn’t they earn what they bring in?
There appears to be another league trying to get organized, to take on the NCAA.
The Overtime Elite league proposes that providing a salary and a focus toward a pro career might be more appealing than college basketball’s biggest programs.
The Overtime Elite league proposes that providing a salary and a focus toward a pro career might be more appealing than college basketball’s biggest programs.
