If every states public school system can find the funding to maintain athletic competition across a dozen+ sports for both genders for over a century at this point, I’m sure colleges can too - I think the fact that we NEED hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue to fund a men’s soccer and women’s gymnastics team is a bit of a canard. College athletics doesn’t need to have the shape they’ve taken.
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Yep. There are Olympic level facilities at many of the power conference teams. That’s unnecessary.
Yes, part of the reason why some of these programs cost so much is because the money to fund that level of expense is ambiently there.
If we re-examine basketball and football’s role as a profit center, I think the “need” for a multi-million dollar tennis facility may evaporate.
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This reminds me of my favorite thought experiment:
For most cities, hosting the Olympics is a boondoggle that leaves you with unnecessary infrastructure. But could Detroit-Ann Arbor host the Olympics with better transit between the cities (which could be beneficial for the region after the event is over?)
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I would not wish that upon my friends and family back in Michigan.
I think it’s a good point - a reason why the Olympics are so expensive is because a huge amount of Capital lines up to be spent on it
We could have 100m sprints and soccer games without a dozen stadiums being built basically anywhere. Would the Olympics cease to exist?
Baylor hired a new coach. KBA not going anywhere!
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Any idea on possible assistant coaches coming?
I’m fascinated by this idea. I would love to see it happen. I would go to all the weird events … modern pentathalon, canoeing, rhythmic gymnastics Gus Macker (seriously!) etc. it would be glorious.
Another key assistant has gone to be a coach elsewhere:
Did she lose all her assistants?!
That’s so weird to enter a season with no coaching staff. Especially after making to sweet sixteen.
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I think it’s strange that she lost two of them to other assistant jobs. One thing for assistants to get HC positions and I doubt KBA thought Toyelle Wilson would be around for more than a year or two, but another thing for assistants to take lateral assistant jobs.
But for Sanchez, she was born in New Mexico, went to school in San Diego, coached at New Mexico St, San Diego St and New Mexico. Michigan is the first time she’s worked outside of the SW. So might have just wanted to return closer to home.
Can’t say for Wesley Brooks.
Success opens up opportunities but I do have to say that I’m surprised that Sanchez wasn’t taking a HC job. I had to read the post twice before catching that.
KBA= Brad Underpants on the womens side???
Probably worth noting that when it comes to WBB Michigan has the tradition of like… Iowa on the men’s side? Trying to come up with an equivalent that isn’t Northwestern and it’s tough. They’re bad. I’m guessing SEC and P12 schools pay their WBB assistants more money than Michigan does.
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Payroll crossed my mind too. It might be time to up the ante.
I would say that before Borseth and KBA, N’W men would be the best comparison. Maybe PSU men? Spotty NCAA tourney appearances but not a complete pushover in the Big Ten? Before the current and previous regime, our only success came under Guevera. All other tenures were tire fires. Might have to go out of conference to find the right comparison.
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I think each decision makes sense individually.
Wilson had been an assistant at a nationally elite program, then top assistant at a good one (us), and took a HC job.
Sanchez, as noted, went home.
Brooks was, seemingly, the junior coach on the staff and went to a capital E Elite program, at least one that prior to the wonky Covid year had lost in 2 of the prior 3 national title games.
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I forgot Miss St was that good. Yeah all those make tons of sense, especially since they all probably came with a raise as well.
PSU men makes sense, especially in light of the… less than stellar fan support