ROI and Alabama

[HurricaneU]

The proof is in the return on invested capital.

There are throwing darts at a dartboard and hoping for the best in hiring coaches like Golden and Co. And then there is investing in building your program and university.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

"That on-field success generates financial prosperity, as detailed below, and also makes Alabama a top choice for students and athletes alike. In 2007, Alabama had an acceptance rate of 77%. Today, rivals like Auburn and LSU are still at that near-80% rate; Alabama now accepts just 53% of applicants.

For the 2012-13 football season, the most recent for which financial data is available, Alabama reported football revenue of $89 million, second only to Texas. The $50 million or so in football profit not only supported non-revenue sports like golf and gymnastics, but it also helped Alabama’s athletic department end the year $34 million in the black. While many athletic departments have to take loans from their parent universities just to break even, Alabama’s athletic department sends money the other way. Last year it contributed around $6.5 million to the university to provide for faculty support and non-athletic scholarships."

Winning pays.

 

[RiDLer80]

******* buffoons running Miami. Ticket sales, merchandise, advertising, student enrollment all go up when your team wins.

It's amazing that Miami hasn't made a dedicated effort to invest in winning. Instead we electi to go the discount route and we get discount results with falling ticket sales and attendance.

 

[M3N]

This will all hopefully change when the troll is gone

 

[tsimonitis]

This will all hopefully change when the troll is gone

Shame she was to small minded and shorted sighted to see the benefits to her pet projects winning football would have had the last decade and a half

 

[Vanquish9]

This will all hopefully change when the troll is gone

Shame she was to small minded and shorted sighted to see the benefits to her pet projects winning football would have had the last decade and a half

i see what you did there

 

[Port Knox]

Since the university of Alabama at Tuscaloosa is in the same school family as the university of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), maybe they could share the wealth with little brother to bring back their football team.

 

[bocacane]

Winning Pays???? How about Pays to Win...

 

[RiDLer80]

Winning Pays???? How about Pays to Win...

Takes money to make money.

I've been wishing somebody would do financial analysis on the impact firing Golden and hiring somebody like Butch would've had on Miami.

Sure, we would've had to eat his buyout over the next 5 years or whatever, but those costs would have be offset by the potential revenue gains from an exciting hire.

Instead, we have plummeting ticket sales, merchandise sells and we're still paying a lame duck coach.

 

[WhatTheHell]

Hopefully after Shalala slithers back to the underworld we hire a president that isn't content fielding an awful progrum and cashing checks from the ACC.

But from the sounds of it, the one dude that would come in here and clean shlt up is being pushed aside for another Shalala clone, thus ensuring 10 more years of a pansexual football progrum that treats its fans to an annual mid-December sodomy in the Lifetime TV Dance Mom's Bowl.

 

[SFbayCane]

UM is a mom and pop operation.