Comments on: Around the ACC: Louisville upping the ante on coaching salaries; NCAA’s Miami investigation on hold

By: Rick H.

Rick H. — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:39:39 +0000

crooked, yes, Connecticut does, and others may do so. UConn’s football stadium was funded by tax dollars.

By: Rick H.

Rick H. — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:31:31 +0000

The NCAA can’t even investigate. No wonder it is a joke of an organization.

By: crooked road

crooked road — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:36:39 +0000

Do any states fund college athletics? I know it can sometimes be a semantic argument. I know some athletic programs ‘borrow’ money from the academic side, while others siphon money to the academic side. That doesn’t change the amount of revenue generated, though, because those with lots of whipped cream can afford to spoon over some to the other side, regardless of which side of the buffet you’re standing.

By: crooked road

crooked road — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:34:01 +0000

More fodder for discussion, for those that care enough to see the bigger picture…

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/51603/miami-hits-home-run-with-hire-of-james-coley

By: Perch

Perch — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:57:13 +0000

Does the state of Kentucky fund state college athletics?

By: crooked road

crooked road — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:25:44 +0000

#47 DH, thank you for caring. I read something that said the UofL AD was proficient in playing the undercard and securing corporate donations based on the rivalry between UofL & UK. That needs to be considered, especially with the proximity of Louisville to ‘major corporate donors’.

How’s the UofL AD doing it? Somebody needs to check that out. VT doesn’t have a plethora of high dollar corporate networking connections, but can’t we learn something out of this?

Also, how about the spending, and the other forms of revenue generation? Aren’t those at least a little interesting? Look at UofL’s non-rev sports, how do they do compared to ‘the rest of the ACC’? It seems to do pretty well.

All kinds of discussion available…

By: crooked road

crooked road — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:17:46 +0000

Does nobody have any thoughts as to why Louisville has well over 10% more AD revenue than any ACC school, despite being in the broke Big East? Nobody wants to ponder exactly what their AD is doing to lead his program in garnering such revenue? Nobody wants to consider the number of corporate donors they get while being located in Kaintuck? Louisville’s got a ‘small’ football stadium, and they still get so much revenue? Anybody wonder what they’re doing right, and if there are lessons to be learned? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

Andy, thanks for covering some very topical areas, even if your customer base doesn’t always fully appreciate the value.

By: scott whitaker

scott whitaker — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:11:02 +0000

Really cool website Desert, thanks for mentioning it.

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/

By: Desert Hokie

Desert Hokie — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:37:23 +0000

What makes Louisville’s revenue even more remarkable is when the size of the fan base is considered. There is an excellent article from the NY TIMES,The Geography of College Football Fans (and Realignment Chaos)
by Nate Silver, 19 SEP 11, that ranks college teams by fan base. Ohio State was no. 1 at 3.1 million. It was a decent attempt to take into account TV market size, alumni, etc. Tech was 13th at 1.3 million (behind Ga Tech and Clemson). Louisville was 74th at a little over 300K! Where is all that money coming from? And, more importantly, how much did Louisville spend? According to Google, a little over $74 Million in 2012. Agree with Crooked Road, That’s a lot of coin that they are willing to spend, and evidently are getting at least their money back. How are they doing this with a really small fan base?

By: Al

Al — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:19:29 +0000

This racket is similar to congress. Congress uses other people’s $$ and pass it along for pork. In coach negotiations, the AD (or whoever negotiates with the coach) gives up the high $$ because its not his money and he is not worried about it. A 5% raise for a 6-6 season…was someone smoking crack when that deal was made?