Lord Elrond

The people who need to talk to Dr Feser are the volleyball players, the coaches, the parents of the volleyball players, and the people that run the local clubs that are black listing SLU. And if athletes in other sports have had the same experience, do the same. That’s truly the only way have an impact.

Not in any MBA syllabus, but an extremely accurate description of reality in corporations.

Love the Herb Tarlek reference, you may have nailed it there.

Camree Clegg, who helped in the A10 tournament win and WNIT, is now going to play professionally in Serbia for Sparktak Subotica.

So if we don’t hire a field hockey coach, does Janet Oberle automatically assume the role of acting head coach?

And now, per Stu’s latest, MTE’s are starting to become Power Conference controlled, and they only want to play other Power Conference opponents, and they are getting more and more influence over organizers of the MTE’s to make that happen. It is becoming more and more clear that our only path to the NCAA tournament is by winning the conference tournament.

Thanks @White Pelican!

Any reports about the open practice from anyone who watched?

Principia hasn’t posted its 2025-26 roster on its website yet, but last year they had only 1 player at 6’6”, two at 6’4”, and no one else above 6’2”. We ought to out rebound this group by 40, and score over 150. What an exciting matchup for the fans.

Not a D3 team! Play Lindenwood, or SIUE, or SEMO, or EIU, or WIU, or literally any other D1 team.

St Louis City SC has said that David Critchley is going to be the head coach for the rest of the season, and they’ll make a decision on a new coach for next year after this season is over. I don’t see where Vedad resigning his position now helps him get the head coach gig next year. Most likely there is a European team (or other nationalality) looking at him for their next season, which starts in a month or so.

There are also public universities with large endowments that own or partially own some startups who are exempt from this tax.

The 8% is a top rate that only applies if the endowment exceeds $2 million per enrolled student. Harvard’s endowment, per an article I found in the Harvard Crimson, is about $2.9 million per enrolled student. It is on the revenue apparently, it will cost Harvard about $200 million per year. If it were on the whole thing, 8% of $53 Billion is about $4.25 billion. As to why, it was politically targeted. The universities looking at the highest tax rate are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT. I guess taxing public schools would been politically impossible to pass. The tax is 4% for between $750,000 and $2 Mil per student, 1.4% for $500,000 to $750,000, and nothing if the endowment doesn’t exceed $500,000 pers enrolled student. For those wondering, SLU with $1.7 Billion in endowment and about 15,200 students works out to approximately $112,000 pers student enrolled, so we are well under the threshold. Davidson, at $1.3 Billion in endowment and only about 1800 students is at $722,000 per student, so they are now in some trouble. Article from The Harvard Crimson https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/5/big-beautiful-bill-endowment-tax/ Edit: Turns out there is a provision that an institution must have an enrollment of 3000, or the tax does not apply. Davidson is off the hook at only 1800 enrollment. There are a couple of other things in here that will affect all universities. The Federal Grad Plus loan program is gone, Parent PLUS loans are now capped at $65,000 (these two will affect grad students most). It consolidates loan repayments and eliminates some borrower protections, including deferment for economic hardship and unemployment. So lose your job and you still have to make payments on your student loan. Also, programs whose graduates earn less than the median income of a high school graduate risk all further Federal loans.

Maybe about St Bonaventure, but they have an endowment of only $92.3 Mil, very little room for error, so they had best be on top of things. If D1 sports gets too expensive for them, they must be proactive about doing something quickly. Davidson has over 13 times the endowment fund, so much more room for error. Both Fordham and Loyola-Chicago have over 16K students enrolled and around 1 Billion in endowment funds each. You would think that would give them all the revenue they would need, but this back of the envelope stuff does not include their debt payments, or how well they are managing their expenses. It is possible to screw things up if they are not on top of their expenses. Even public schools are not immune from the issue of declining enrollment. If fewer students in a state are going to school, it’s going to be hard to get politicians to give out more money to schools, and one condition I could see added to that money is no funding for sports, only academics. Time will tell how this plays out over the coming years. But schools deciding to give up D1 sports is not irrational depending on their circumstances.

Another A10 university who may have financial problems is St Bonaventure. The Bonnie’s have only a 92.3 Mil endowment fund, and only 2381 total students, so much less operating revenue coming in, harder to keep funding D1 sports. LaSalle, with 5191 students, gets a lot more revenue coming in on a yearly basis. No one else seems in immediate financial danger, next lowest endowments are URI and GMU at 203 Mil and 222 Mil respectively, but not only do they have 16k and 35k enrollments, they are both public schools, so as long as they get money from their state governments, they are good. Beyond that is St Joe’s, 7568 enrollment and 378 Mil endowment fund, doesn’t really seem to be in immediate trouble. While Davidson only has an enrollment of about 1843, they are sitting on a 1.3 Billion endowment fund. As a wildcard, any university may decide to kill sports or go down to D3 because it makes financial sense to them at any time. Not sure I see that in the immediate future, but if there’s no way to control costs, they may decide they have to.