The money impact has been fast and it’s spreading
We all knew that the non rev spirts would be impacted at some point. But it was a post on the wrestling board that really hit home for me yesterday.
A top VT recruit just decommitted and flipped to Penn State (who is the dominant national program). And they can offer amounts that VT can’t match.
Wrestling fans are very committed and love their sport. But even they were pulling back their interest because the money impact is just limiting everyone except the already rich programs.
College sports as a whole is, in my mind, now past the tipping point. They need to formally separate competition between P2 money levels and everyone else.
Sorry for not really offering any new info. Just had to rant for a min.
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The gap between the haves and have nots is growing and killing competitiveness
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Marooned
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The disruption will continue if the money disparity is that great. There will be zero stability with administrations, coaches and players.
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hokieZ71
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We are literally being paid to be fodder at this point. We are ‘jobbers’ for any 80’s wrestling fans.
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Marooned
1y
why NW, RU, Vandy, IU, MSU, Purdue, Mizzou, and the rest of at least half of the P2 schools should command more revenue than the Mag 7 schools.
I’m still waiting to see if the P2 will go to an uneven revenue split in response to the ACC’s move. If they do, then we will hopefully have fewer big schools to fend off to retain talent. If they don’t, then the whole setup runs the risk of imploding when their own bell cows start considering breaking away.
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Non P2 teams have some tough choices.
accept they are not that level, and accept mediocrity and with that the rhetorical question, do donors in both NIL and general fund contributors sustain the same level for lower level competition. (give to the P2 and get return on the investment) Will you be able to suatain attendance at events?? and with that the lose in revenue in the region....
Reduce expenses to core programs to compete, meaning dropping sports. (i.e 24 to the minimum level 16. With that will be some hard choices all with emotional baggage.
Hard decisions..
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VTCALS72
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errand of getting in the P2. This post points out something that is probably in Whit's job description, navigating VT into whatever the non P2 future looks like and to have us in a position to rise to the top of that new configuration.
Seems to me the most anti Whit post demand not accepting the reality you just laid out.
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If Penn State were to be restricted to a maximum of $20M across all programs, then it's going to force some schools to pick and choose which programs to fund the most. You can build better facilities, have better TV exposure, etc.... but ultimately we know that CASH is king... and "salary caps" help prevent one team from monopolizing and killing the parity of competition
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earlier this week. Some will make the same decision as St. Francis and drop down to DIII. While other schools will decide to drop down to DII. Heck I could even see some schools decide to leave the NCAA and join the NAIA. Depending on how many schools make these decisions, it is possible at some point NCAA DI could be the 2 P2 conferences and a handful of non-P2 conferences/schools.
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Small Privates and actual just academia(cal) type schools forming their own Division. Cut down on some costs, Try and makes best out of it you can.
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currently exist at all three NCAA division levels. I believe the NCAA overall bylaws are currently structured in such a way that if a new division level is to form within the NCAA structure, then it would need to have enough differences from the current profile of the three existing divisions. Since DIII currently doesn't offer athletic scholarships, it seems like the ideal division for the small privates and academia type schools assuming the primary goal is to reduce costs. If a new division was formed by those schools, then how do you think it would be different from NCAA DIII? Since most people aren't familiar with how the NAIA is structured, I will leave them out of the discussion for now.
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