I don’t like this domino-effect. Lay off, Waco!
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Yikes. What’s KBA earning these days, and how does that compare to the rest of the BIG? Might be time for a raise.
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So Mulkey made $3million/year…KBA makes around $800k after bonuses this year. If Baylor wants her, they’ll get her. I don’t think Michigan is going to double her salary or anything like that.
Not sure KBA’s a great fit there, but I wouldn’t blame her for taking the money.
It is insane for paying that much to no revenue sports.
For some schools WBB is a revenue sport
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A ton of mid major football and basketball coaches make quite a bit of money and I doubt they’re in the black that much.
Coaches salaries are out of control across most of D1 in the major sports. But because of Title IX, I don’t think they can just pump it all into the men’s programs. Money has to go somewhere and if they’re not going to pay players, coaches are one of the easier dumping grounds for money.
Baseball and softball don’t operate in the black and yet both coaches make over 400k. Hockey barely runs in the black I believe and Mel Pearson makes 400k.
Lsu is literally a bankrupt university too, absolutely wild
I think boosters pay the coaches at LSU. In return, they get a big say in who gets hired and fired.
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I knew LSU was bankrupt but not financially.
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bankrupt morally and financially
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Prior to the pandemic (which makes it only worse) out of all the athletic departments that operated a div I football team, fewer than 20 were doing better than break even. This is number fluctuates year to year a little but as a general rule has been accurate for a while. There are reports that cover this periodically but I’m not able to link to them at the moment, but should be readily available via a search.
Anyway, financially speaking paying any coaches a multimillion dollar compensation package is problematic for vast majority of schools; Michigan being one of the rare exceptions.
my very unpopular opinion is to pay the revenue sports players and gut the title IX programs. If you look into who are subsidizing and who are being subsidized, the current system is very regressive.
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Then we might as well cancel pretty all non major D1 athletic programs because almost none of them break even.
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This is what Stu Douglas said to do on his pod with B Quinn. Pay all the revenue athletes a salary (i.e. not just NIL) and cut non revenue sports to pay for it. I dislike that as someone who tries to get out to those games pretty often and support the programs.
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I suspect the college athletics bubble will pop soon and the programs with the best facilities when the music stops should have a good advantage. I think the days of building waterfalls in the locker room will come to an end and it will be about fiscal responsibility and maintaining the buildings you have.
It’s just such a welter of contradictions that I can’t even see how to cut through it.
I look at a school like Florida State, where my wife teaches and I once taught, and I see a place that was ranked 64th nationally among public u’s when we arrived and is now a top-20 public program. Some of this is because the legislature designated FSU one of the two flagship state u’s and funding and support grew proportionately. Part of it is the fact that the football team and its success attracted a huge number of new applicants, helping to create some snowballing success.
At present that same success has been the foundation of a lot of just awful decisions about town planning and university programs that a lot of us who have come to love the place lament. Insert shruggy emoji.
But no worries, ‘the market will take care of it.’
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I assume you are referring to Florida State and not Ferris State right?
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Saying only revenue sports should exist is just silly. Certain teams in typically non revenue sports make money. But if you get rid of most of their opponents, they wouldn’t make money. Michigan football wouldn’t make money if they didn’t have lots of quality opponents in the conference and rest of CFB. This would also eliminate most of women’s college athletics in D1. Which is insane, especially coming from someone that is married to a female college athlete.
I’m also a believer that every sport has the potential to be a revenue generating sport. Just takes effort from the university and students organizing to watch the games.
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Also is being a revenue generator the most important factor with everything? I realize schools need to make money but not everything a school does makes money. It seems to me sports can bring a lot of value to a school, for instance drawing in students who may not have otherwise gone there. Maybe I’m way off here and that is, in fact, the only reason college sports ought to exist. Just a thought.
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