Kudos to Jamie Pollard

[intrepid27]

Glad to have an AD with some strong fiscal management skills.

https://sports360az.com/wilner-brea...and-least-efficient-after-arizonas-shortfall/

 

[RonBurgundy]

Glad to have an AD with some strong fiscal management skills.

https://sports360az.com/wilner-brea...and-least-efficient-after-arizonas-shortfall/

Yep. Kudos to JP. It would be nice to have us invest in some additional teams. Add women's wrestling and upgrade men's hockey to D1 status.

 

[BirdOfWar]

Yep. Kudos to JP. It would be nice to have us invest in some additional teams. Add women's wrestling and upgrade men's hockey to D1 status.

Yes and let's invest in the press box as well since we are talking about things that will have no ROI with an increasingly challenging landscape.

 

[CoachHines3]

beer in stadium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DesertClone1]

Reading that article, that Tech one appears to be inflated with expenses due to the stadium upgrades no?

 

[CloneFanInKC]

I’m curious what qualifies as expenses?

Salaries, capital improvement, buyouts etc. I think would be excluded but what about recruiting/travel and game day expenses?

 

[Cyched]

 

[CloneFanInKC]

Reading that article, that Tech one appears to be inflated with expenses due to the stadium upgrades no?

Good question. I believe their stadium upgrades were funded by private donations. Not sure if those usually hit ledger for bottom line calculations.

 

[Sigmapolis]

I don't think there's an AD in the country doing more with less than Iowa State.

 

[mynameisjonas]

Yes we all know Pollard is cheap lmao.

 

[CyDude16]

Yes we all know Pollard is cheap lmao.

It’s called being financially responsible for the position that an athletic department such as Iowa State is.

 

[CyCrazy]

Yes we all know Pollard is cheap lmao.

Swing and a miss.

 

[KnappShack]

Yes and let's invest in the press box as well since we are talking about things that will have no ROI with an increasingly challenging landscape.

We need a better baseball press box.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I'll take the good publicity, but that's a weird metric. Wouldn't it be more productive to compare revenue increase to expense increase?

 

[2speedy1]

Yep. Kudos to JP. It would be nice to have us invest in some additional teams. Add women's wrestling and upgrade men's hockey to D1 status.

With the start of pay for players, we are going to see the opposite, unfortunately.

Non Rev sports, especially mens, are going to disappear from major competition in college.

Many will be further relegated to smaller colleges, that dont have to pay millions to players, just as we have seen trending over the past.

 

[Sigmapolis]

With the start of pay for players, we are going to see the opposite, unfortunately.

Non Rev sports, especially mens, are going to disappear from major competition in college.

Many will be further relegated to smaller colleges, that dont have to pay millions to players, just as we have seen trending over the past.

It wouldn't shock me to see men's down to football, basketball, and wrestling at some point.

And that's it.

And just enough women's sports (certainly basketball and volleyball but after that...) for Title IX purposes.

I know Pollard is a cross country/track guy but if were those (men's) sports plus men's golf I would be sweating right now. I don't know what cutting them saves, but every bit towards $21 million counts.

 

[2speedy1]

Glad to have an AD with some strong fiscal management skills.

https://sports360az.com/wilner-brea...and-least-efficient-after-arizonas-shortfall/

This also says (Before institutional support) as it should be.

Which is interesting because ISU AD has not taken money from the University for years now. I would be curious to see a list of schools that the AD is self sufficient and those that take money from the University.

 

[VeloClone]

I was momentarily confused by the "Wildcat" reference since the Big 12 used to have all unique mascot names and I have been programmed to think KSU when wildcats are mentioned. With the addition of BYU, Houston and Arizona that is no longer the case (Cougars & Wildcats).

Before the latest realignment over a third of the SEC teams were either Tigers or Bulldogs.

 

[BooneCy]

He clearly needs to invest in a Time Machine, so we can all resolve all of our regrets and live in different time periods!!!!!

 

[CascadeClone]

lies, damn lies, and (financial) statistics...

Comparing things like revenue and expense growth is a pretty esoteric comparison. Especially over a 4 year period bridging Covid.

Anytime you look at financial statements, you have to REALLY get into the weeds to truly understand what they are telling you. Just comparing a couple numbers like this... take it with not a grain of salt, but the whole salt lick. I mean, ok revenue grew 3% and expenses grew 2%. But what if you were showing a 25% annual loss over the period?

I would say that is DOUBLY true when dealing with public universities, which may or may not be getting money from the state, and which may or may not be doing big capital projects. And they can smooth things based on depreciation treatments.


All that said, I think we'd all agree JP is doing a fantastic job wrt ROI. And obviously UA, not so much...