Why do you think Miss St takes a hit? They appear to have done everything by the book. They are the ones that reported what was happening to the NCAA.
I think because of this will be why MSU only takes a small slap on the wrist, at worst. It's sorta like habing negotiated a light sentence for turning states evidence.
College football is a whole different animal today than it was when SMU received the death penalty. You might as well demo the school if you shut down a football program. Could you imagine what would happen to LSU (the school itself) without the money generated from football?? The NCAA just wont do it. VERY harsh penalties, yes!!...death penalty, wont happen.
I was under the impression that some Moo U boosters were contacted for pay for play and that it was in the works until Barner upped the price. I could be wrong...but Im pretty sure Moo U will take some sort, probably minimal, hit.
Agree that the death penalty won't happen. This is just an opinion, but disagree about football money. I believe that in almost every case, all football generated money does is pay for football. Million dollar coach salaries, 6 figure ass't coaches, training facilities, special dorms, training meal facilities, etc. I don't think a lot of schools are building libraries with their bowl cash. I don't know, maybe there are a lot of endowments from boosters who hang around because of football and hoops, that are significant to the school itself. I could be wrong.
Correct. The AD kicks back 5% of the gross budget to the academic side, which comes to $4.3M. That barely covers Les' yearly salary.
Correct. If you look at the landscape of college football, if I am not mistaken only about 20-25 of the D-1 programs actually make money, and only 2 of them use ZERO state funds, of which LSU is one of them.
Schools raising fees to keep up with cost of college sports - USATODAY.com I knew Iowa didn't use state funds, so I thought, wow, we're the only two?? According to this study, there are seven. Still, pretty good company. "Only seven met this benchmark during each of the five years studied: Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana State, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas."
I was guessing, but I knew it was a small number and that football proceeds to the university would not stop the NCAA from giving the death sentence to a school. In the schools listed, maybe, but for the most part the football programs fund themselves and in many cases don't even do that. Which when you think about it is really kind of astonishing given all the major TV contracts, apparell contracts, etc. You would think more of these schools with 90k+ stadiums would do better, especially since they are sold out for almost every home game.
Yep, I've always been amazed the Hawkeyes do it with a 72,000 seat stadium... not to mention our crappy basketball team lately.
