Oh, yeah. The fraud with all the easy, vague, overly simplistic answers.
Strengthen the ACC...sure. HOW? By adding 3 schools for 2 sports? Oh, what an act of strength...
Increase the payout in the interim? HOW? By giving whatever blood we can squeeze from the stone to (predominantly) one school like Clemson who may end up leaving anyhow? Brilliant.
See how things look in 7-8 years? Yep, they'll look even worse when nothing is done to fix the problem. How did Miami's facilities look when we waited for decades to do what other schools were doing? How does it work out when schools retain bad coaches because they are afraid to pay buyouts? I'll wait until you can produce some rousing success stories based on "waiting 7-8 years to see how things look".
Oh, sure, "athletic budgets are moving into the $150M to $200M range and getting higher". Really? Maybe for the Big 10 and SEC, but not for the ACC, WHICH IS EXACTLY THE POINT. Here, I'll even prove my accurate point (and your exaggeration) by providing real numbers from June 2023, not just your crazy guesstimates (keep in mind that the private schools are not listed, such as Miami, Duke, Wake, BC, Pitt, and Syracuse).
A couple of points to note, two of the three "biggest budgets" in the ACC belong to teams with the largest stadiums, thus they have more revenue AND ALSO more corresponding expense due to the on-campus stadium costs. And there is no way in **** that ANY of those private schools would be in the top half of ACC athletic budgets, with the possible exception of Miami. Meaning, that ACC BUDGETS are more likely to be in the $75M to $150M range, outside of Clemson and F$U.
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As for your nonsense about a MERE "$20M shortfall", it's actually $25M and will grow on an annual basis while we "wait to see how things look".
Maybe you field less sports? Brilliant. I'm sure that has no impact on Title IX or anything else, right? And maybe you're unaware that if we join the Big 10 we will be ADDING sports.
Be smarter with coaching hires? Wow, why did nobody think of this before? And it's so easy to do. Yeah, just "be smarter". Works every time.
Raise money from the alums? Yeah, that one is bound to work. Again, I wish we would have thought of this about 100 years ago when UM was founded. "Raise money from the alums". Yep. Hey, when Miami is working to fill in a "$20M shortfall" (or, more accurately, $25M and growing), what is your suggestion for posters who think that our alums should ALSO be spending $25M per year on NIL?
And sell more tickets? What? THAT is how we raise more money? Selling more tickets? It's so elementary. So which is your preferred suggestion, should we sell more tickets in Hard Rock which reduced capacity, or the on-campus arena for which Coral Gables has never approved our additional seating capacity, or Mark Light which has infinite space to build more bleachers? Or should we raise ticket prices? I'm eager to hear all of your ideas now that Beta Blake isn't around to say no (because he was the ticket-selling king).
"Lower the delta!" "Push inequal distributions!" "It's doable!" You should make up some t-shirts and sell them on CIS or DymeLyfe. "LOWER THE DELTA!" What a great slogan for doing a fat lot of NOTHING! You are so amazing, you should have gone into marketing.
And your cherry on top is to compare college sports entire-program budgets to professional sports payroll budgets.
Chef's kiss!
