I tend to look at financial problems in life with the lens of “either you are watching the faucet or watching the drain.” Everyone is wired to do one or the other and for a number of reasons, one or the other isn’t right or wrong per se. The drain watcher does what St. Francis did and cuts all the sports. The faucet watcher finds a way to find a profit center to fund things when funds diminish or dry up. In this case, here’s an idea: At some point in the future, micro grids are going to replace the big PUC driven power grids from 100 years ago. Miami has 16,000 people walking its campus every day. Imagine putting rubber mats down that when stepped on generate an electric current that can be captured in a generator. Imagine offering free spin classes to campus that feature bikes tied to a generator so that the current generated coverts into electricity. Imagine putting rolling turbines on roads that do the same thing when car wheels turn them. This is all insane I know (on brand for me!) but if you take a step back you realize there are always ways to make money out there but most systems can’t adapt to do them because they are too set in their ways. Turning Miami into a power company is not an idea anyone is talking about but at some point in the future, some city or college will do this. Feel free to throw the tomatoes now. I’m wearing old clothes today as it’s raining buckets here.
What sport is the biggest financial drain, and which sport costs the most yet receives the smallest amount of national publicity?
I do applaud the of idea of solving renewable energy and fixing Miami sports at the same time. Both things are in my mind quite a bit.
Thinking out of the box: We could cede Hannon Park to the Miami Tribe and open a joint venture hotel and casino. Our official opening university statement now recognizes the campus as being located on indigenous lands. Very few can lose money on a casino.
thanks for the kind words. I am fascinated by how many hidden profit centers companies often have (and yes, in an odd way, I think of Miami as a company) they never seem to monetize. Sure, it can cost money, but if done well, you can change the profit trajectory for years to come. Put another way, I did a research project for a big tech company and they get 3 million hits a day on their corporate site. Up to me, I would carve out a small piece of that site and allow third parties (vetted of course) to advertise on it. The money they would make would pay for their yearly marketing spend as that’s a lot of qualified eyeballs. Anyhow, I think you either have ideas or excuses and I’m tired of excuses. It’s like that great quote in Shawshank: “either get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Lots of updates above and per verbal commits, here is the leaderboard:
CMU 7
BGSU 6
UB 5
Miami 5
Toledo 5
Ball State 4
Akron 3
NIU 2
EMU, Kent, Ohio 0
Billy, you want a school where you will be happy academically and socially, you want a location you feel good about, and you want a school which needs your type of player and where you feel you will get a great chance to play. With that many schools interested, you should be able to find a good fit.
I’d be off to Brown if I were Billy!
As said above…he’ll be fine, and we’ll likely see Billy again, just across the court.
Bellarmine is probable to me…but Brown would be a good choice, IVY league was very good this year and continues to become more and more competitive.
Not like Brown was terrible…
And Brown offers an Ivy education and needs based financial aid. That aid package - unless his family is rich - is probably far better than an athletic grant in aid.
IUPUI my prediction. You can take the boy outta Indy…
The old adage is don’t let a four year decision torpedo a forty year decision.
Hearing from is not the same as scholarship offer. Good luck to Billy
Billy, please don’t go to ew poo.
Put another way, choose brown over ew poo.
I win again!
It generally means he will get an offer from one if not more, with a list that long…he’s in portal, they would not bother otherwise.
I agree. I am sure he will get offers. Multiple. But not everyone of those schools
Well, probably about all of those teams are looking for a wing who is a shooter. They likely have several guys they are looking at. As soon as they sign someone who fits their needs, they will no longer be interested.
Mitchell Rylee in the portal as of 10 minutes ago. This drops us to 12 scholarship players, so frees up room for an additional transfer portal player or high school player.