So much complaining. :-$

[TheEye]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

 

[QuattroCane]

This is the unfortunate result of have a large bandwagon following, people who attached way too much to a college football team and have little perspective.

 

[Dghustla]

Great post and it's very true.

 

[Dwinstitles]

already posted 2 times

 

[CaneFan79]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

So instead of reigning in spending to maintain a relatively level playing field, you propose an unsustainable opposite. Pro leagues have salary caps to address this, with the exception of MLB's luxury tax, which still finds big spending clubs (Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees, Giants, Nationals) always contending, but gives the Astros and Royals of the world a fighting chance.

CFB has no such mechanism. I have posted ad nauseam about the NCAA job being to "promote competitive balance" but doing nothing of the sort in the most important area: $$$

Three things:

Athletic Department spending caps and floors: Schools will have a spending cap for each sport they sponsor. and a general cap for operations and capital projects. Want to pay a big time coach? Less money for recruiting trips and assistants. Want an IPF? Then that new weight room will have to wait. In addition, spending floors mean you HAVE to spend X amount of dollars in general and sports-specific accounts or you get relegated to FCS, DII, etc.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING off all student-athlete accounts, transactions and employment, to include spot checks and periodic canvassing of family members. You want that scholy? You have to consent to monitoring, including checking to make sure a new car Uncle Rico just registered isn't actually YOUR car.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING of booster transactions. Sure, good luck catching $EC bagman, but it may be a deterant to boosters whose reputation may be tarnished by getting too frisky, i.e. 'Bama booster Dentist with Auburn patients.

A private school whose undergrad population is about 10,000, of which over half are out of state, does not make for a base to compete with mostly state-funded enterprises (physical plant, faculty salaries, etc.) and huge booster/alumni organizations.

A check to anybody working on getting rid of a window dressing NCAA president would be a better investment.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/31/ncaa-president-public-losing-trust-big-time-sports

 

[kryptonite]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

As for theoretically landing Smart, would never have happened. You know full well he marched into the UGA interview and told them what they'd need to spend. He'd just come from bama so they believed him and they agreed to it.

Miami has taken a nice step forward as far as loosening the purse strings and hopefully we'll see more, but we're nowhere near what the top teams are doing. Maybe we can't, maybe we just won't. Whatever the case, we're going to have to bank on relationships in SFLA making up the difference because we're never spending like that. We just don't have the "football is everything" culture.

 

[Dghustla]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

So instead of reigning in spending to maintain a relatively level playing field, you propose an unsustainable opposite. Pro leagues have salary caps to address this, with the exception of MLB's luxury tax, which still finds big spending clubs (Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees, Giants, Nationals) always contending, but gives the Astros and Royals of the world a fighting chance.

CFB has no such mechanism. I have posted ad nauseam about the NCAA job being to "promote competitive balance" but doing nothing of the sort in the most important area: $$$

Three things:

Athletic Department spending caps and floors: Schools will have a spending cap for each sport they sponsor. and a general cap for operations and capital projects. Want to pay a big time coach? Less money for recruiting trips and assistants. Want an IPF? Then that new weight room will have to wait. In addition, spending floors mean you HAVE to spend X amount of dollars in general and sports-specific accounts or you get relegated to FCS, DII, etc.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING off all student-athlete accounts, transactions and employment, to include spot checks and periodic canvassing of family members. You want that scholy? You have to consent to monitoring, including checking to make sure a new car Uncle Rico just registered isn't actually YOUR car.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING of booster transactions. Sure, good luck catching $EC bagman, but it may be a deterant to boosters whose reputation may be tarnished by getting too frisky, i.e. 'Bama booster Dentist with Auburn patients.

A private school whose undergrad population is about 10,000, of which over half are out of state, does not make for a base to compete with mostly state-funded enterprises (physical plant, faculty salaries, etc.) and huge booster/alumni organizations.

A check to anybody working on getting rid of a window dressing NCAA president would be a better investment.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/31/ncaa-president-public-losing-trust-big-time-sports

I don’t think structural upgrades should be monitored by the NCAA but they do need to go back to the drawing board when it comes to competitive balance. There are a group of teams with seemly unlimited budgets funded by tax payers and boosters that are basically buying championships.

 

[TheEye]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

So instead of reigning in spending to maintain a relatively level playing field, you propose an unsustainable opposite. Pro leagues have salary caps to address this, with the exception of MLB's luxury tax, which still finds big spending clubs (Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees, Giants, Nationals) always contending, but gives the Astros and Royals of the world a fighting chance.

CFB has no such mechanism. I have posted ad nauseam about the NCAA job being to "promote competitive balance" but doing nothing of the sort in the most important area: $$$

Three things:

Athletic Department spending caps and floors: Schools will have a spending cap for each sport they sponsor. and a general cap for operations and capital projects. Want to pay a big time coach? Less money for recruiting trips and assistants. Want an IPF? Then that new weight room will have to wait. In addition, spending floors mean you HAVE to spend X amount of dollars in general and sports-specific accounts or you get relegated to FCS, DII, etc.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING off all student-athlete accounts, transactions and employment, to include spot checks and periodic canvassing of family members. You want that scholy? You have to consent to monitoring, including checking to make sure a new car Uncle Rico just registered isn't actually YOUR car.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING of booster transactions. Sure, good luck catching $EC bagman, but it may be a deterant to boosters whose reputation may be tarnished by getting too frisky, i.e. 'Bama booster Dentist with Auburn patients.

A private school whose undergrad population is about 10,000, of which over half are out of state, does not make for a base to compete with mostly state-funded enterprises (physical plant, faculty salaries, etc.) and huge booster/alumni organizations.

A check to anybody working on getting rid of a window dressing NCAA president would be a better investment.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/31/ncaa-president-public-losing-trust-big-time-sports

Hey, look, in your scenario all that becomes feasible. However, I just don't see it happening. If there's a path to getting us in to spending caps, great! I'm all for it! Maybe we should team up with other schools with smaller budgets to promote college athletics being more about education first. Is spending out of control? Yes. Yet, all I see are complaints from people wanting to be as successful as schools who spend an immense amount of money from posters acting like someone else is going to foot the bill for the athletic budget.

 

[TheEye]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

As for theoretically landing Smart, would never have happened. You know full well he marched into the UGA interview and told them what they'd need to spend. He'd just come from bama so they believed him and they agreed to it.

Miami has taken a nice step forward as far as loosening the purse strings and hopefully we'll see more, but we're nowhere near what the top teams are doing. Maybe we can't, maybe we just won't. Whatever the case, we're going to have to bank on relationships in SFLA making up the difference because we're never spending like that. We just don't have the "football is everything" culture.

Similarly, even Richt had his spending demands on the department. It is just so laughable when people on this board envy these teams in the playoffs while mocking Richt. I don't think it's arguable that Richt's hire is a step in the right direction.

 

[CaneFan79]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

So instead of reigning in spending to maintain a relatively level playing field, you propose an unsustainable opposite. Pro leagues have salary caps to address this, with the exception of MLB's luxury tax, which still finds big spending clubs (Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees, Giants, Nationals) always contending, but gives the Astros and Royals of the world a fighting chance.

CFB has no such mechanism. I have posted ad nauseam about the NCAA job being to "promote competitive balance" but doing nothing of the sort in the most important area: $$$

Three things:

Athletic Department spending caps and floors: Schools will have a spending cap for each sport they sponsor. and a general cap for operations and capital projects. Want to pay a big time coach? Less money for recruiting trips and assistants. Want an IPF? Then that new weight room will have to wait. In addition, spending floors mean you HAVE to spend X amount of dollars in general and sports-specific accounts or you get relegated to FCS, DII, etc.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING off all student-athlete accounts, transactions and employment, to include spot checks and periodic canvassing of family members. You want that scholy? You have to consent to monitoring, including checking to make sure a new car Uncle Rico just registered isn't actually YOUR car.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING of booster transactions. Sure, good luck catching $EC bagman, but it may be a deterant to boosters whose reputation may be tarnished by getting too frisky, i.e. 'Bama booster Dentist with Auburn patients.

A private school whose undergrad population is about 10,000, of which over half are out of state, does not make for a base to compete with mostly state-funded enterprises (physical plant, faculty salaries, etc.) and huge booster/alumni organizations.

A check to anybody working on getting rid of a window dressing NCAA president would be a better investment.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/31/ncaa-president-public-losing-trust-big-time-sports

Hey, look, in your scenario all that becomes feasible. However, I just don't see it happening. If there's a path to getting us in to spending caps, great! I'm all for it! Maybe we should team up with other schools with smaller budgets to promote college athletics being more about education first. Is spending out of control? Yes. Yet, all I see are complaints from people wanting to be as successful as schools who spend an immense amount of money from posters acting like someone else is going to foot the bill for the athletic budget.

We have until 2020 to drum up a consensus to replace "Dear Leader:"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/02/01/mark-emmert-ncaa-contract-extension/79641176/

To be honest, the US Attorney of the Southern District of New York looking to topple Emmert to make a huge media splash (something they have done in the past) is our best chance. Sure hope it doesn't entangle what appears to be an innocent Coach L, but getting rid of lackey Emmert and having the conference bosses deftly afraid of the Feds looking for more heads is our best chance to get us there.

 

[kryptonite]

https://sports.yahoo.com/georgia-ne...ck-sabans-process-game-changer-050129185.html

People want to rip on Richt, but how many of you have put your money where your mouth is? Alabama and Georgia are in the positions they are in after investing in a huge amount of money for game analysis support staff and for recruiting staff. Meanwhile, the IPF is still in the process of panhandling to complete its interior.


"nine new full-time employees in Georgia’s football office, most focused on recruiting, being paid more than $500,000 annually to fuel the operation. There’s also a phalanx of more than 60 support staff members, interns and students who have created one of the most vast and sophisticated recruiting ecosystems in college football. “Kirby took it from a Mustang and turned it into a Ferrari,” said Georgia linebacker coach Kevin Sherrer, who worked under Richt."

I read all of these posts complaining we have a coach like Mark Richt, as if anyone has a likely candidate to replace him. Even if Miami landed Kirby Smart, we still would have the issue of funding.

Miami can build off of the mantra "just win." We saw it against Notre Dame and it helped land an excellent recruiting class. For those of you unsatisfied, you can send a check to Coral Gables, or find another team.

So instead of reigning in spending to maintain a relatively level playing field, you propose an unsustainable opposite. Pro leagues have salary caps to address this, with the exception of MLB's luxury tax, which still finds big spending clubs (Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees, Giants, Nationals) always contending, but gives the Astros and Royals of the world a fighting chance.

CFB has no such mechanism. I have posted ad nauseam about the NCAA job being to "promote competitive balance" but doing nothing of the sort in the most important area: $$$

Three things:

Athletic Department spending caps and floors: Schools will have a spending cap for each sport they sponsor. and a general cap for operations and capital projects. Want to pay a big time coach? Less money for recruiting trips and assistants. Want an IPF? Then that new weight room will have to wait. In addition, spending floors mean you HAVE to spend X amount of dollars in general and sports-specific accounts or you get relegated to FCS, DII, etc.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING off all student-athlete accounts, transactions and employment, to include spot checks and periodic canvassing of family members. You want that scholy? You have to consent to monitoring, including checking to make sure a new car Uncle Rico just registered isn't actually YOUR car.

Reporting and INDEPENDENT MONITORING of booster transactions. Sure, good luck catching $EC bagman, but it may be a deterant to boosters whose reputation may be tarnished by getting too frisky, i.e. 'Bama booster Dentist with Auburn patients.

A private school whose undergrad population is about 10,000, of which over half are out of state, does not make for a base to compete with mostly state-funded enterprises (physical plant, faculty salaries, etc.) and huge booster/alumni organizations.

A check to anybody working on getting rid of a window dressing NCAA president would be a better investment.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/31/ncaa-president-public-losing-trust-big-time-sports

Hey, look, in your scenario all that becomes feasible. However, I just don't see it happening. If there's a path to getting us in to spending caps, great! I'm all for it! Maybe we should team up with other schools with smaller budgets to promote college athletics being more about education first. Is spending out of control? Yes. Yet, all I see are complaints from people wanting to be as successful as schools who spend an immense amount of money from posters acting like someone else is going to foot the bill for the athletic budget.

The whole point of the current discussion isn't asking who will foot the bill, it's making the bill low enough that more schools can pay it. What we've got now is a system where the teams in the top money bracket are virtually the only ones who can win it all (don't waste my time, I said virtually). Putting a cap on spending would theoretically increase the number of schools who could compete at the highest levels. Obviously even if this happened the bamas of the world aren't going to sit still, they'll get busy figuring out how to gain a different advantage. All you can do is fix the current problem and start looking for the next one. Or nothing. You can always do nothing.

 

[Consigliere]

The old "Mom and Pop" bullchit excuse. I am glad to see it out early in 2018.