Give them a day and time. It doesn't have to be immediate. That allows them to transfer/figure it out. I think our football budget is like a million dollars more than basketball. I saw Drake has a 1.3 million football budget and a 3.3 mil basketball budget. The fact that our football budget is more than our basketball budget makes 0 sense. I would swap that around.
Most don't. At least at our school.
Our football team doesn’t have to do anything! It spends what one wants to spend on it! But, if you want the program to continue to have a higher budget than a possible program that could make a decent profit- keep going in the same direction. Wichita or Bradley doesn’t have to spend a dime on football. I’m not saying we get rid of football- just saying spending more than basketball is insane!
Agree with your last sentence as respects to fcs football. The more I study ISU’s value proposition as respects to FCS football and the related expenses it makes no sense. With scholarship FCS there is virtually little to no upside to the university as respects to a marketing boost from media exposure, no image enhancement from being associated with similar or more prestigious academic institutions, very little if any increase in athletic department revenue from enhanced licensing or naming rights, little to no deeper alumni relations developed which can help with athletic department donations but more importantly with enhanced alumni donations and university involvement..etc. We avoid nearly all the upside of fbs football while we fund/tax our students at the level of low level end of fbs athletic departments. In the past fcs had more significance to it but the fcs landscape is different and less meaningless due to several factors. I get why there has been and continues to be a constant exodus from fcs to fbs. Peeps here may not agree but fcs football is viewed by a high percentage of people/sports fans as either d2 or d3 football as they only know it is something less than the highest level.
Agree with all of that except downgrading football. It is the only sport that matters in today's world. Funding an FCS football program more than MBB is a head scratcher to me - the only rational reason for doing that is if you're planning an upgrade to FBS, which we don't appear to be serious about.
Agree that it matters. If you have no goal in site then don’t tax a sport that clearly is ready for the challenge!
Btw I am not advocating for downgrading football rather just stating that it seems to make more sense for ISU to do something different than fcs, either up or down. IF we go up/fbs we can likely, over time, increase rights/licensing by anywhere from around a million a year to as much as 3 million a year based upon what Mac schools achieve from annual rights/licensing that exceeds ISU’s current rights/licensing. I believe the university could also demand more $$ from p5 buy games as well as receive more media exposure.
The convention wisdom around here is that we have a goldilocks situation - just right. That is, the MVC/MVFC is right-sized to our means. But I see it as more of a value trap, or maybe road to nowhere. Even if we succeed, what does it get us? We still have an FCS ball and chain around our ankle.
Understood. Not a fan of the status quo, myself. Your revenue estimation sounds spot on to me.
We’ve already shown we can compete. We’ve beaten FBS teams (Northwestern, Colorado State, Eastern Michigan). The difference between MVFC and MAC isn’t that great where we’d be a joke.
I don't think either path presents a primrose lane. But I like our chances better down the MAC path than the MVC/MVFC one. I also think any fair accounting of the pros and cons gets any reasonable man to where I'm at. Open your mind to the possibility. First time I heard the MAC mentioned seriously at ISU, it came out of Zenger's mouth and I shuddered. Took me probably another 10 yrs to completely open my mind. Red-White scrimmage is 1pm Sat. Weather will be beautiful.
Actually, the MAC had a few teams play in bowl games. A few of them had 2 million dollar payouts. That's not a joke. Bowling Greens budget was 6.9 Mil and played in a bowl. Before you make fun of it- its better than what we did this year with our 4.7 mil budget.
I wasn’t calling the MAC a joke. I was saying we wouldn’t be so far behind that we wouldn’t be an 0-12 joke program.
Oh, misunderstood you.
