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captdalton
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re: Very Interesting Article on LSU Athletics
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 6:00 pm to boweswi05
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You have been saying LSU is broke for years.Yet we keep out spending Bama's broke arse.
Let’s pretend that is true. How has that been working out for you?
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re: Football buyouts
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 4:12 pm to idlewatcher
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Yet we still have money to:
Hire a solid coach
Pay the players
Stack our roster
You HAD money to do that. Now you have to pay $60 million in buyouts and another $20.5 million in revenue sharing.
re: College Baseball is Largely a Function of Climate
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 3:08 pm to BumKnee
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You have to admit that "Top 25" does not typically mean in RPI. I get that it is a ranking but that's not how most people would read it.
That is why I included.
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Other rankings have as many as 20 of 25 coming from those same states
It doesn’t matter what rankings I listed, someone would have taken exception with them.
And it doesn’t matter because they all agree that the majority of tops teams come from the same 8 coastal southern states and California.-
re: LSU is days away from nuclear weapons
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 3:05 pm to Lt. Columbo
Whatever happened to the CIA mind control monkeys they were experimenting with in Louisiana? Did they grow up to become Louisiana politicians and LSU administrators?
re: College Baseball is Largely a Function of Climate
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 2:55 pm to VFL67
He may have moved up north where they don’t care about baseball yet.
re: College Baseball is Largely a Function of Climate
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 1:26 pm to MrWalkingMan
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Yet you used RPI, which are not rankings
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Rating Percentage Index (Sports): Used by the NCAA to rank teams (25% team winning percentage, 50% opponents' winning percentage, 25% opponents' opponents' winning percentage).
re: College Baseball is Largely a Function of Climate
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 12:28 pm to dstone12
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Expert level analysis. Thanks man!
You are welcome!
re: College Baseball is Largely a Function of Climate
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 12:13 pm to PSS101
Hockey seems to be making inroads in the south.
College Baseball is Largely a Function of Climate
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 12:03 pm
Yes, it is early. But here are southern based schools (and southern California) currently ranked in the top 25.
Southern Miss (1)
Clemson (2)
UC Santa Barbara (3)
Florida (4)
UTSA (5)
Texas (6)
Ole Miss (9)
UAB (10)
UCLA (11)
USC (12)
Florida State (13)
Louisiana (14)
Texas A&M (15)
Baylor (16)
La Tech (22)
Charleston Southern (24)
Texas has 4. California has 3. The following states all have two representatives: Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Alabama has one. The 7 coastal southern states and southern California are home to 16 of the top 25. Other rankings have as many as 20 of 25 coming from those same states. College baseball success is clearly a function of climate.
With the growing number of modern facilities and indoor facilities, will yankee schools ever be able to catch up?
Or do they just not care about baseball?
Southern Miss (1)
Clemson (2)
UC Santa Barbara (3)
Florida (4)
UTSA (5)
Texas (6)
Ole Miss (9)
UAB (10)
UCLA (11)
USC (12)
Florida State (13)
Louisiana (14)
Texas A&M (15)
Baylor (16)
La Tech (22)
Charleston Southern (24)
Texas has 4. California has 3. The following states all have two representatives: Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Alabama has one. The 7 coastal southern states and southern California are home to 16 of the top 25. Other rankings have as many as 20 of 25 coming from those same states. College baseball success is clearly a function of climate.
With the growing number of modern facilities and indoor facilities, will yankee schools ever be able to catch up?
Or do they just not care about baseball?
re: Auburn Basketball is DEAD
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 11:17 am to NotChexMix
RIP Chexmix. Again.
re: Football buyouts
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 9:03 am to Night Vision
Aggie: $77 million
LSU: $70.8 million
Auburn: $52.6 million
Kentucky: $38 million
Gators: $33 million
Ouch…
LSU: $70.8 million
Auburn: $52.6 million
Kentucky: $38 million
Gators: $33 million
Ouch…
re: With Profit Sharing on the Horizon, What Happens If a School Says No?
Posted by captdalton on 3/3/26 at 8:56 am to twk
I think schools like Big 10 member Rutgers are going to have to make some hard choices. They lost $78 million last year. There are some surprising big names that lost money in fy25.
Oklahoma: -$43.7 million (like Texas largely due to conference swap, but they still have to make it up).
UCLA: -$21.5 million
North Carolina: -$15 million (despite record high revenue.)
Alabama showed a $53 million profit, but lost over $40 million in sports other than football and basketball.
And some schools are in a huge hole. Florida State athletics has $437 million in athletic debt.
It will be interesting to see which teams go all in on which sports. Because even for the top revenue schools they won’t be able to afford it all.
Oklahoma: -$43.7 million (like Texas largely due to conference swap, but they still have to make it up).
UCLA: -$21.5 million
North Carolina: -$15 million (despite record high revenue.)
Alabama showed a $53 million profit, but lost over $40 million in sports other than football and basketball.
And some schools are in a huge hole. Florida State athletics has $437 million in athletic debt.
It will be interesting to see which teams go all in on which sports. Because even for the top revenue schools they won’t be able to afford it all.
re: Very Interesting Article on LSU Athletics
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 9:21 pm to L S Usetheforce
LSU just went on a shopping spree like a drunk Cajun’ who just got his first credit card and doesn’t realize you have to pay it back plus interest. When they sober up and someone explains how credit cards work they are going to be shocked.
re: Monday SEC Baseball
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 9:13 pm to bigDgator
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Why is LSU playing on a Monday?
They aren’t…
re: With Profit Sharing on the Horizon, What Happens If a School Says No?
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 9:08 pm to tBrand
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Texas only received $12M from the SEC for '24-25, and will receive the full ~$80M for this year. Texas is immune to whatever money issues befall the rest of you plebs.
So did boosters cover that loss? Did Texas raise ticket prices? Increase student fees? It came from somewhere.
I assume you believe Texas donors have an open checkbook and money will never run short.
re: With Profit Sharing on the Horizon, What Happens If a School Says No?
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 8:50 pm to ColoradoAg
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Maybe don't hire 16M coaches? 3M in a women's sport that doesn't even make enough to pay the coach. Shall I continue?
So you are saying they should save money by hiring bargain bin coaches and deciding on which sports to sacrifice? I think many will adopt this strategy.
re: With Profit Sharing on the Horizon, What Happens If a School Says No?
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 8:48 pm to captdalton
And where are all the people who complain there are never any real discussion topics here? Profit sharing is going to have a big impact on how athletic departments operate. I fear many uniforms may begin to resemble this.
re: With Profit Sharing on the Horizon, What Happens If a School Says No?
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 8:40 pm to ColoradoAg
So then it will snowball. If you are already broke and in the cellar, why would you want to spend an additional $20+ million just to hit the status quo?
Schools will have to absorb this new additional expense. For most departments they are looking at around a 10% increase in expenses due to profit sharing. Only 10-12 of the 16 SEC athletic departments generate a profit each year. Revenues are at record levels, but so are expenses. Here is a graph of SEC athletic department profitability from 2018-2022.
If you look at the 2022 number, 8 out of 11 schools were profitable (Vandy is not listed, they are private and financials are not public). However, if each school had an additional $20.5 million dollar expense then only 1 program would have been profitable.
The money is going to have to come from somewhere. And big schools aren’t immune. The Texas athletic department reported a $23.3 million dollar loss for FY25. That was without paying $20.5 million in profit sharing.
It will be interesting to see how athletic departments handle it. I bet a lot of non-revenue programs are about to take it on the chin, or somewhere else.
Schools will have to absorb this new additional expense. For most departments they are looking at around a 10% increase in expenses due to profit sharing. Only 10-12 of the 16 SEC athletic departments generate a profit each year. Revenues are at record levels, but so are expenses. Here is a graph of SEC athletic department profitability from 2018-2022.
If you look at the 2022 number, 8 out of 11 schools were profitable (Vandy is not listed, they are private and financials are not public). However, if each school had an additional $20.5 million dollar expense then only 1 program would have been profitable.
The money is going to have to come from somewhere. And big schools aren’t immune. The Texas athletic department reported a $23.3 million dollar loss for FY25. That was without paying $20.5 million in profit sharing.
It will be interesting to see how athletic departments handle it. I bet a lot of non-revenue programs are about to take it on the chin, or somewhere else.
re: Very Interesting Article on LSU Athletics
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 8:18 pm to VFL67
Alabama has a larger lead in the series than LSU has wins in the series. I think it pretty unlikely LSU wins 31 in a row considering they have only won 27 out of the 90 games played so far.
re: With Profit Sharing on the Horizon, What Happens If a School Says No?
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 6:41 pm to captdalton
So P4 schools are required to pay both current athletes and former athletes back pay. How are the programs that are already losing money going to come up with an additional $20.5 million? It is expect to rise into the mid $30 million dollar range over the next decade. How are programs going to pay for it? Cut support staff? Slash non-revenue sports? Sell assets? Try to monetize every sponsorship they can? Use taxpayer dollars to pay football players? Raise ticket prices? Raise student fees? Some of all?
It fires the fanbase up to say “we will make the playoffs and generate an extra $20 million in revenue!!!” But the reality is not everyone can make the playoffs.
It fires the fanbase up to say “we will make the playoffs and generate an extra $20 million in revenue!!!” But the reality is not everyone can make the playoffs.
re: Very Interesting Article on LSU Athletics
Posted by captdalton on 3/2/26 at 6:32 pm to skrayper
Don’t forget that money doesn’t matter - Holden Spaht and Todd Graves will pay for it all.
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