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It will be interesting to see how the work them in at the basketball games going forward.

All I got is Indiana at home is August 23.

Looks like the season opener is at home August 15 against Kansas City.

I would rather have the SEC get the tournament expanded than have them decide to do their own thing. Plus, with how many teams now play D1 basketball the tournament should be bigger. When the tournament first expanded to 64 teams, 23% of all teams made the tournament. an equivalent percentage today would get you 83 teams in the tournament.

The word is he is leading a Tantra group for college age woman up in Colorado.

Schulte was one of the 25 players called to final US Olympic soccer team's training camp. https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2024/05/twenty-five-players-called-to-us-mens-olympic-soccer-team-for-final-pre-olympic-training-camp-and-match-against-japan-in-kansas-city

FSU’s NIL store is run by the same company that operates SLU’s.

I guess they are still working on the relaunch of BVF.

Moy, Jimbo, Nash and God rest his soul Bonwich all popped up in that one. Good times.

My god, this was over 17 years ago. I’m old. Great post by Box that somes up why we have never been consistently great.

Basketballcountry was entertaining as hell.

One word Zima. IYKYK

Why are we crapping on the stuff that is meant to put a little money in the pockets of Billiken athletes? We aren't going to get stuff limited quantity stuff like this put together by Nike's design teams. That stuff would have to sell at such a high price to cover production costs, that no one would buy it and the players wouldn't get crap.

After going over the 990 again, I think the total actually paid to conference members was actually more. They list both payments to members and payments to affiliates in the report. The A10 is not reporting payments to conference members in the same way the Big East and the WCC does.

I like this one

The conference could get that $3 million over 3 years by paying a commissioner a salary more in line with the revenue generated by the conference. McGlade's total compensation was $400,000 more than the MWC commissioner. The MWC generated $79.4 million in revenue. The WCC conference while not a perfect comparison, is probably the best comp to the A10. They returned on average right around $782,000 to each conference member off only $12.6 million in revenue. That is more than double what A10 teams received. WCC Commissioner Gloria Nevarez received $406,550 in total compensation working in San Francisco, one of the highest cost of living metro areas in the world.

The MVC generated $13 million in the same year. The MVC made $2,176,250 off media rights. They distributed a total of $1,663,881 back to their members. They only had 10 members that season so that is an average of $166,388 per team. The total value of the compensation earned by everyone that works for the MVC was $1,099,495. You could hire everyone that works for the MVC and increase their total compensation by 20% and still spend less than what the A10 is dishing out to Bernadette McGlade.

The Big East had $86.7 million in the same fiscal year. Commissioner Val Ackerman had a total compensation of $1.62 million. The conference generated $48.7 million from media rights. The conference distributed back to members almost $55.2 million. That averages to just slightly over $5 million a team. The Big East has unequal revenue sharing, but uses a different formula than the A10 where programs get larger shares of NCAA credits as they advance further in the tournament. DePaul recieved the smallest share at $4,444,380 and Villanova received the largest at $7,372,223.

Sad news. I stayed up way too late on many work nights just to listen to him call games. I know many hate him, but I found him thoroughly entertaining on the ESPN PAC coverage. I will miss him.

I got bored and decided to look up the A10’s most recent 990. The conference had revenues of almost $26 million in the 22 fiscal year. Media rights brought in $5.7 million. Bernadette McGlade’s total compensation was almost $1.35 million. The total distribution to conference members was $4.6 million or an average of about $313,000 a team. SLU would have received more that year because the A10 has unequal revenue sharing and SLU would have got 75% of the NCAA tournament credit SLU earned in 2019. That still would have been less than Bernadette made.

The state fan base and alumni are not what drive the TV ratings and the massive dollars that flow from that. They need the buy in from the general public to generate the TV ratings that make the revenue currently generated possible. Once the general public starts viewing big time college sports as minor league, that revenue is gone. College football will no longer be the second most popular sport in the country. It's popularity will crater. It will be the UFL. Instead of A.J. McCarron being the quarterback for the St. Louis Battlehawks, he will be playing his 14th season as the QB for the Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Georgia 8 year veteran Jake Fromm in the SEC Championship game with a bunch of other guys that just weren't good enough for the NFL. That is really going to get people to watch across the country and drive subscribers to streaming services.

Sure that could be what happens, but that isn't a money maker for the schools or the athletes involved. The best model is actually the one we have now with the athletes able to make their money off name image and likeness. That allows the athletes to profit and allows us fans to all to buy into a facade that big time college sports isn't really minor league sports with schools as franchise owners. The problem is that doesn't work for the athletes who think their is an endless supply of money coming to them or the people running big time college sports who think it is their God given right to have control over the millions and millions of dollars that now flow into NIL instead of flowing into the athletic department. The athletes don't understand that 99% of them need that facade to make any money in college athletics. The people running college athletics don't understand that they lost a court case and NIL is never going away. That money is never going back under their control. It would be like the NBA or the NFL trying to wrest away control over their athletes' endorsement rights.