Lane taking the LSU job and losing the Egg Bowl thereby knocking Ole Miss out of the playoff would be the most Lane Kiffin thing ever…
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If a coach really does leave a CFP team, with a legitimate national title shot, right before the playoffs to get a brinks truck of money, the sport is cooked. Not a serious sport.
Also, I have very little hope in this new College Sports Commission (I had little to begin with and now its nothing) given Kiffin said in an interview his number 1 consideration isn’t his payment, but the “above the cap” NIL payments a school is committing to. It shows coaches don’t expect NIL to be cleaned up.
I’ve long been an advocate there is value in Miami staying in the top division of football, but if Big Ten and SEC schools are really going to have $25m-30m rosters, we have to go play somewhere else. We are not in the same universe as that. The illusion we’ve been living under is over.
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They already have rosters of the cost. I believe Texas Tech which has 2 former Miami players has a roster of 28 million.
I’m at that point too, and the lack of pushback for any of this (except maybe the Big Ten private equity pursuit) just shows me it’ll keep continuing until it collapses on itself some day. And when that happens, a bunch of these universities with shaky finances are going to have a world of hurt. At least Sayler and the Miami admin, while imperfect, aren’t jeopardizing the university’s future.
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College Football hasn’t been a serious sport since the NCAA colluded with the big schools to lock out the smaller from any meaningful revenue stream to build their programs
And I say “sister school” because we both retreated from “Redskins/Indians” in favor of a red-hued avian
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I agree it’s all obscene, but in spite of that I also still think there is still value at staying where we are right now - an upper tier G5 program that can be competitive with lowish level Big 10 teams in one game situations and compete for the G5 playoff spot if the stars align (I continue to think this should be one of Chuck’s stated goals). As long as we can do that with the resources that we have, I’m fine staying put, even understanding we basically aren’t playing sport as the top of the Power 4.
Very college sports for all these schools to sign off on the NIL caps in the House settlement only to turn around and plan for how to circumvent the caps.
JM, excellent point!
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Miami has excellent tailgate set-up. We’re all about it.
College football is a business…any resemblance to it being a sport is unrealistic.
The strategy will continue to evolve, eventually shrinking/ squeezing out those G4 schools who cannot raise enough money to “play” the NIL game.
As private equity and the investment bankers move in to take over and call the shots, expect to see places like THE osu, Bama, Texas, USC etc. raise private equity and public capital, spinning off athletic departments from their schools (in exchange for a modest share of the raised equity, aka revenue sharing). These approximately 40 mega schools and a handful of deep-pocketed TV networks and Wall Street capitalists can bask in the glory of knowing they have contributed to the destruction (they’ll call it an "inevitable reinvention) of what we here used to enjoy.
Get ready to purchase your “Saturday Ticket Package” from Netflix.
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“Get ready to purchase your “Saturday Ticket Package” from Netflix.”
I had envisioned a Marquee Network or YES Network $20/month type carriage fee on my DirectTV bill, but yours is another way for CFB to make money as the Premier P4 teams turn into Minor League NFL.
Maybe that’s a good thing. Miami’s gotten somewhat singed by NIL (losing Pace, Nicholson, etc., the Finn situation), and am sure it’s not the only school that has made missteps dealing with the new CFB business model. CFB sure has changed since the days of watching your team play a Saturday home game on UHF, via Jefferson-Pilot Sports.
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I’m curious, how many billionaire’s do you know that have expressed “buyers remorse” for what they did to make their billions? Those 40 mega schools and the corporations that run them will not care one iota of what they have done as long as they continue to reap the financial benefits. I don’t disagree with you, about the decline of sports, just adding to it.
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Conscience goes out the window very quickly when someone crosses whatever their magical nirvana happens to be. Most billionaires have “lost it” a long time ago…while some still strive for more.
It’s playing out now right in front of us…the stakes and the greed continue to rise…until it hits an unsustainable level, crumbles and leaves a lots of destruction in its wake. (We may be seeing that phenomenon today in the AI headlong rush though the peak really can only be determined post-peak).
Well said,Renmanco.
Makes me question a new bball facility when we won’t be able to afford “bball student athletes”
in 5 years.
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Agree
Agree that Chuck won’t leave Miami to be an assistant elsewhere, but imo he has enough ambition that he’d leave for another P4 job if he got an offer.
I have said for several years now that mid majors need to break away. Model is not sustainable at all now in it’s current form.
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And I would leave my current job for the same role in a Fortune 500 Company. But I have no reason to believe that such an offer will ever come, just as with Chuck.
We need a new facility just for the sake of having a modern basketball facility
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