The breakdown is available. I don't recall the exact figures, but roughly speaking student fees account for nearly 60% of revenues, ticket sales are a distant second at about 25%, donations and sponsorships are about 10%. Conf and TV revenues make up a small amount of revenue. Some things to conside...

Geez. Give the kid a break. After reading the comments, I expected this crazy biased survey. The survey itself is not perfect, but it is not as biased and uninformed as the comments suggest. Actually, the comments reveal the bias and misplaced preconceived notions of the posters (but they don't see ...

Context: this is critical of the broken college athletic system, not Appalachian. We're just stuck in a broken system. Subsidies for sport teams is regressive redistributive socialism whether it is for professional and college athletics. For professional teams, it takes from taxpayers and gives to b...

In case anyone didn't realize it, as the NIU AD correctly points out, there is already a different reality between G5 and P5. The two are already different divisions in reality if not formally. The terms have already differentiated them, and P5 conference scheduling rules have made the distinction. ...

Not sure its the Sun Belt's call. The conference gets a very limit number of appearances, and the games will largely be at off times, not on Sat afternoon. Yes, coverage is better than when we were in FCS, but FCS is not much better today. NSDU today is what we had then, and they get similar press a...

Just to provide a bit of context, here are our historic average attendance figures over the past 14 years. The national downward trend in attendance is definitely a factor, but we never had any long sustained period of 30k fans. The national championship years, playoffs, AE, Michigan, etc. all made ...

What the Big12 does only matters to a few programs at the margin. Houston, BYU, Cinn, etc. that could hit the jackpot by an invitation. For the rest of G5, it will not matter beyond maybe causing eventual changes in G5 to happen sooner rather than later. The G5 mistakenly chased the TV money when it...

BTK2000 There are many reasons why we should have moved to G5, but the argument that it helps academic reputation is definitely not one of them. It's a horrible myth that won't go away. People that need to know for hiring, admission, placement, etc. don't fall for this. If they do, they should be fi...

Honestly the Sun Belt is not much if any better than the SoCon (when we and GeoSou were there). I think the fact that GeoSou and us came in and dominated clearly reveals this to be the case. There are really atrocious teams and not many good ones, even one that is dropping back to FCS. Cobb was a jo...

Yosef club and ticket prices are complements. Give back your MBA are retake ECON 101 if you think the price of one doesn't affect the other. 8-) Declining attendance is a national trend, but we've seen a larger decline. Lots of factors for us, which many have mentioned--weaker rivalries, kickoff tim...

UT fans are insane to think we were faking injuries to slow the game down. The fact that two of our leaders on D were sitting on the bench during critical drives at the end of the game would be enough to show anyone with a brain that their injuries were real.

"If an institution can't cover their bills, don't further subsidize it." "Commie rhetoric, Robinhood, etc." Be careful, that logic would shut down our athletics program that only exist because of a large redistribution of wealth that subsidizes a 60% operating deficit. However, it makes sense to sub...

I must say that the students are more informed than many of us. For those interested to become more informed, the student fee issue underlies a bigger conversation about athletics on campus, which also appeared with parking on Thursday night games. Here some background and information. First, studen...

They mentioned athletes across the state. LSU is a different animal because its the only program that doesn't need taxpayer subsidies to stay afloat. ULM and ULL are already hurting and its getting worse. For example, subsidizing out of state students by only charging in state rates to non-resident ...

The following is not to question whether the move was good or not. We had a great year and the move has gone better than anyone could have hoped for. It's been great. The recruiting, scheduling, etc. has all led to momentum that create a possibility for better things. The post is to respond to the s...

G5 is the new I-AA whether you admit it or not. The economic models, the facilities, the revenues, potential to pay players, everything are in different stratospheres. The gap is getting wider, not narrower. And the irrelevance of G5 is growing. The G5 slot will disappear, and eventually there will ...

It's amazing we are heading to a bowl in the first year of being eligible. Me and my klan will be there. My fear is that this novelty will fade. The Cure, GoDaddy, etc. bowls will surely lose some of its luster over time. I admit that I miss the playoffs. Clearly, It is a much better and more exciti...

I'm sure Doug and others realize that the lower attendance trend is a big problem. It is a national trend, but it is more pronounced for us. Honestly, outside a small minority of 'diehard' fans (i.e., those posting on boards), the fanbase does not see any difference between Wofford and ULM or Wyomin...

"We live in a world where record cold is blamed on global warming. So...yeah."

FYI, someone that doesn't know the difference between climate and weather should keep quiet. The fact you see a contradiction reveals you don't know what you're talking about. Leave it to the scientists.

There are non-sports threads and folders. You do not have to read them. For those interested, of course GPA and SAT scores matter, in particular for setting minimum standards, but for who gets accepted and rejected, other things definitely matter as well. Class rank and the rigor of secondary course...