Yea the idea is good, and it feels like people auto-gravitate towards approving of NIL because they assume that big-college is just out for money. So you have to peel back these layers to even attempt to spread the message.
Jamie Pollard preaches "Doomsday" about College Athletics and the NIL
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But if all the B12 schools are underwater financially, won't the league just vote to reduce the required number of sports?
It was this season. We have never had a guard like Curtis Jones. Once he became the alpha, keshon was a detriment. It's too bad because ain't going to see a three guard group like that ever again
I think we are 4 over the total but at the minimum number of men's sports. I think we could cut one women's sport and still be Title IX compliant but the new roster limits make that a much grayer area than it used to be. I suspect we can't go to the full football limit (105?) even with the current offered sports.
No, but those other jobs are all jobs that could reasonably be filled by men or women. If they create a class of jobs that are going to explicitly be men, that’s going to a problem in my opinion. Hard to say until it happens and courts rule, but I think they’ll run into some legal problems with this approach. But you could be right if the employee pool is reasonably balanced they might be ruled OK.
Seems to me at present we are on a trajectory to be more like MLB at this time with the “haves” and the “have a lot less than” the haves.
While I still care quite a bit, as I have gotten older in addition to this NIL mess, I find myself caring less and less. Now I haven’t reached the point where I have stopped writing checks, but I am at least a couple steps closer in that direction.
Significant. It shocked me what Jr 89gt’s fees were a semester……..$1200. Another 300 on top of that doesn’t sound extremely painful but how in the heck did it get to $1200?
Kinda like the frog in a boiling pot. The story I read is Virginia tech studentd paying for a little more than half of the house settlement.
I wouldn’t say I am all the way there, but there is a part of me that kind of wishes they would spin off the teams completely from the universities and say the athletes didn’t need to be students (both red lines to me) so that I could kill off my interest. I’d still be sad, but there would also be a bit of relief because I’m no longer losing interest little by little.
The biggest friction point I see in all this is you have a historically not for profit entity trying to play in a quasi for-profit world or model and it seems like they wanna have the best of both worlds when those two worlds don’t play well together and philosophically those two worlds are diametrically opposed.
No business model, that I am aware of can have sustainable success with two main revenue generators, and the rest of their departments being loss leaders that “balance” the budget.
If we’re gonna treat this like a for-profit entity, there isn’t a budget to balance, there is a P&L to manage and you’re either making money or you’re losing money.
It was mentioned in that podcast with Blum on the morning rush and I think it’s true. College sports is just way too big for the model of where we’re going and I think it’s survival will depend on shrinking to fit the new rules of the game.
nope, i will invest my time and money in the Vikings
Elijah, that was an incredible interview! I've seen a lot of content with Jamie on sports junkie type podcasts/radio spots, but I appreciated the different angle you came from when laying the foundation of who Jamie is, and how he describes his role within the University ecosystem. I feel like it would have been interesting even if I didn't like sports. And at the same time, there was plenty of new things in there that would keep diehard fans engaged too.
As others have alluded too, I hadn't heard the bit about ISU fully funding rev share for 2 years before this, so great job getting that scoop. Even though the future is scary, it feels good to know we have at least a couple years of high level competition ahead of us.
Keep doing what you're doing Elijah, because it's great!
As others have alluded too, I hadn't heard the bit about ISU fully funding rev share for 2 years before this, so great job getting that scoop. Even though the future is scary, it feels good to know we have at least a couple years of high level competition ahead of us.
Keep doing what you're doing Elijah, because it's great!
JTS question: The capacity says 61,500. Does that include every possible Hill Side seat they sell? Or is the 61,500 separate and the hill side seats are additional?
If the hillside seats are additional, what is the max # seats of those that they will sell?
If the hillside seats are additional, what is the max # seats of those that they will sell?
you're assuming the people in control of this actually care (newsflash: they don't give a rats ass)
Oh, it will happen. Remember the Big 10 ‘Leaders and Legends’ fiasco. They’ll bring it back, only as ‘Legends and Dead Weight’.
It's everybody. One of the things that happened early in JP's tenure was to count hillside in the official capacity.
