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Several of us were on the call - it was recorded. Nothing was said that I heard about confidentiality. Quite a bit discussed. Chuck said he was taken by Baylor coach Dave Aranda’s experience in Waco and his conclusion that to survive and thrive you have to adapt to the way things are, not to the way you wish they were. Football has tried to reload for this season rather than rebuild. Lots of former four star transfers coming in.
Looks like we’re trying to position ourselves to end up in the top echelon of D1 football and basketball when all the dust settles - quite possibly not even in the MAC. The AAC and ACC were both mentioned.
NLI $ will need to be increased significantly. But the Red Brick Legacy fund is now a 501 (c) 3. An anonymous donor recently made a $250k donation.
We will also need a significant upgrade in student/athlete housing and training table options. Some stadium upgrades will be necessary. We will need to alter our scheduling model to be able to avoid as many buy games with top P4 teams as we’ve been scheduling. It’s hard to make the playoffs when you start 1-3.
A new hoops arena will be a welcome addition but NLI will be critical to hoops success. Chuck and Travis working in lockstep together with David Saylor and President Crawford.
Il let others chime in now and I’ll try to answer any
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Chuck says Freshmen recruits generally live in a residence hall for a year or two and then move into a shared house of apartment.
My nephews at UC and OU, said that on scholarship, after their freshman year, if they wanted to move off campus they got a check that equated to university charges for living on campus. They both lived off campus in four man apartments that ultimately cost a fair amount less than the on campus equivalent. That extra money was theirs to keep and spend any way they wanted. Both said it was nice supplement to the monthly athletic department,
“cost to attend” stipend they both got from school.
That said, at least among football players, no one wanted to live in on campus housing so why worry too much about upgrading it?
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While the ACC may not look like what it does today if this would happen i fully support a move as long as at least 1 of the schools is in the Triangle! 
(We’d probably be most competitive with NC state in the near term)
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Apparently it’s a point of interest for today’s recruits based on what other programs have done - according to Chuck. Some schools must have been creating Olympic style athletes villages.
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It’s been the next thing in recruiting wars for about a decade now. See UK’s basketball only dorm: Kentucky's basketball players have new ridiculous luxury housing including private chef, flat-screen TVs (Pictures)
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Does anyone recall when Coach said the spring game will be played? April 26th?
For clarity, Coach mentioned that “premium” housing was more a problem for athletes that are transferring in from P4 programs….more with the 5th year/grads. Not sure a big problem with a true freshman because they haven’t experienced it prior.
I’m not sure Oxford would even have “premium” available for students….lol….but it would probably drive a 30% premium over university housing, which is the allocation limitation.
Hey, when I was a freshman, Morris Hall was considered premium housing. 
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Yeah, even had air conditioning! (lived there in '74-'75).
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And it was coed my frosh year….
@HawkLBacker CM said the spring game is Saturday, April 26. He said all practices are open to us and invited us to stop by to watch any of them.
The call was very exciting
I am happy that Miami is aiming high and trying hard
I love listening to Coach Martin talk
At the same time there is a lot of this that bothers me
- i dont like the housing idea- another item making the team less part of the campus
- i dont like that kids dont care about a Miami degree anymore - isnt that the whole point
- I dont agree with coach on scheduling- maybe 3 power 4s is too many I dont want the Liberty model
I get the Dave Oranda (sp?) story but still I have mixed emotions
This video is terrible, but I digress.
It is what it is….if athletes want all this extra BS, then Miami certainly has thee right to take it away if they don’t produce
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David Sayler has had some very notable misses, but one can’t deny that he’s positioned football/basketball to succeed as much as a MAC school probably can in 2025. It’s certainly not all due to him but while other colleges have crumbled under NIL/portal we’ve managed.
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I’m sure it matters in some places and to some people…but higher education is probably at its lowest approval rating ever…a degree is just a degree, every school says the same thing, we can end this charade.
I heard Jason Calacanis (related to AI) speak to MBA grads seeing fewer and fewer job offers and how he’s begun to guide UT students to consider the start up route. Certain programs you can’t get away from (JD, MD, PsyD, PhD, etc) but I wonder about the pressure on MBA.
I wonder, just like opening up the spigots on the housing market, if the increased access to federal student loans has increased the price of an undergraduate degree beyond its true value? I read that federal student loans have grown by $1T in the past 15 years. Something has to “pop”.
“Looks like we’re trying to position ourselves to end up in the top echelon of D1 football and basketball when all the dust settles - quite possibly not even in the MAC. The AAC and ACC were both mentioned.”
LOVE Miami playing in the ACC, but we will see how much that moves. I like Miami being the poor-man’s home for 4/5 star recruits who don’t get the playing time at their original school. What would be also exciting is getting some of the lower-level P5 schools coming to Oxford in 2-1 or 3-1 deals …
The ACC rumoring has been around for a long time. The only shot (waaaaaaaay long) is that Clemson, FSU and the fake Miami are allowed to get out. If the ACC thinks of themselves as Public Ivies, maybe Tulane, us, maaaaybe UConn fit the bill for replacement.
I’m not even confident of the AAC at this point. The conference announced mandatory revenue sharing of $10m per year. And we’re probably considered much weaker financially due to higher institutional/student fee funding and much lower fundraising and corporate sponsorship.
We’d probably have to demonstrate a path to at least another $15-$20m in revenue to be attractive to anyone. It won’t be our TV audience!
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