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Our tax dollars to directly fund FSU/UF athletics?

Hold My Beer said:
Wonder what kind of pushback there could be from faculty, staff and even students at UF/FSU about "auxiliary" dollars being shifted into the bank accounts of football and men's basketball players -- many of whom could also continue to receive payments under the table as well
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Nerds will be mad but a lot of students enjoy the football games so probably not much push back
 
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Tony4Canes said:
Nerds will be mad but a lot of students enjoy the football games so probably not much push back
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Well then it's time for CIS to fund "Revenge of the Nerds" in Hogtown and Trailerhassee

Revenge Of The Nerds 80S GIF
 
No matter what happens in terms of NIL/athletic budgets Miami will always be competitive under the current leadership. They realize that from a branding standpoint it's important that the []__[] does well.
 
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Hold My Beer said:
Any accountants or general know-it-alls willing to explain what's going on here?

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And here’s where the political pressure will come from in the future.

The students.

Colleges will raise tuition fees and other charges to cover their new professional athletic teams. As students take on ever increasing debt, this will be cited as a gross violation.

Its going to lead to some schools dropping athletics entirely.
 
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As some in this thread have said, it's not that the auxiliary funds which are being freed up for student-athlete "revenue share" are coming from taxpayers.

However, those funds are currently being spent on something. Maybe something dumb! But it's unlikely that 100% of the funds were being burned in a pile.

So... imagine a future budget request deliberation before the Florida legislature that sees allocation held steady or reduced year over year. Then UF/FSU/UCF/USF/etc. administrators would need to decide if they want to repair the central air in a lecture hall or tell their backup DE that he has to fly coach.

Most athletic programs in D1 lose money. And I mean really lose money- not like Ohio State's reverse-Enron accounting to declare a loss after their title year in the biggest revenue sport. So I wonder how long the appetite for big financial investment in sports will continue across so many mid programs with zero history or tradition. Maybe Texas Tech is the model going forward- get some very rich alumnus with a huge chip on their shoulder to bankroll you.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Well, the first word I used was "toothless". The second word is the name of a well-known warehouse club, as well as a restaurant/brewhouse chain...
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My comment was a joke. As in, I’m married and oral s*x vanished. You know, “I do” means “I don’t anymore.” Or put another way, what does a woman eat that keeps her from giving BJs? Wedding cake.

Are we on the same page now?
 
BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
My comment was a joke. As in, I’m married and oral s*x vanished. You know, “I do” means “I don’t anymore.” Or put another way, what does a woman eat that keeps her from giving BJs? Wedding cake.

Are we on the same page now?
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Copacetic. Sorry for the confusion, I thought you were questioning the Maude edit to my post.

Page: same.
 
GojiraCane said:
And here’s where the political pressure will come from in the future.

The students.

Colleges will raise tuition fees and other charges to cover their new professional athletic teams. As students take on ever increasing debt, this will be cited as a gross violation.

Its going to lead to some schools dropping athletics entirely.
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In the current model, more potential male students (the ones most supportive of sports, and most likely to donate to athletics thereafter) are eschewing college altogether.

Couple this with the general decline in birthrates, and I foresee athletic departments becoming ever more reliant not only on TV deals, but on a small number of mega donors.

Can it work? Sure. Can it work for everyone? Absolutely not.
 
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