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If you look at NCAA athletic financial disclosures, all athletic departments report the cost of scholarships as expenses for the AD, not as institutional support. That’s standardized.

On athletic facility rental/lease/use fees, every school also reports them as an expense (item 34). Those who have the University pay it (instead of the AD) still…[Read more]

Yeah, credit to LSU. They just went and took it. Even if we’d been able to count a 9.95 instead of the fall, LSU still would have jumped us. They just absolutely nailed it on beam to tonight.

How many Utah players will be drafted in NFL draft?

Bishop, Vaki, Elliss are basically certainties and Laumea would be a surprise if he wasn’t drafted. But I’ve also seen Vele and Bills occasionally mocked in the late rounds.

So 3, 4, 5, 6 players drafted is all on the table

Absolutely if we had less money, we would also spend less money. But that doesn’t change how much we’re actually netting.

Imagine someone makes $100k/yr salary…but also has generous parents who give him $20k/yr. And he then spends $118k/yr.

It’s nice to know that if his parents suddenly cut him off he’d cut spending to $95k…but it still…[Read more]

One note on student fees and institutional support: it used to bother me, but doesn’t nearly as much anymore. If I’m a 45 year old grad student from Madagascar, part of my tuition is also being used to support the theatre program. Or Band. Or a new computer lab. Or a free student gym. None of which I might happen to use. The big difference is…[Read more]

Of course that doesn’t tell the whole story. If you take less money from the institution but then run a deficit, someone (probably the institution) still has to cover it. So here’s a ranking of the same schools by net athletics revenue minus net expenses

1. Texas: +$37.21M
2. Texas Tech: +$10.45M
3. Kansas St: +$7.05M
4. Kansas: +$4.19M
5. Oregon:…

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Here’s a ranking of (public) Big 12 + PAC12 most to least in terms of institutional/student support in 2023

1. Houston: $48.25M
2. Arizona: $46.64M
3. Cincinnati: $38.06M
4. UCF: $36.74M
5. Cal: $33.31M
6. Colorado: $31.88M
7. Arizona St: $21.1M
8. Utah: $18.15M
9. Oregon St: $11.21M
10. Washington: $10.28M
11. Washington St: $7.18M
12. West Virginia: $6.48M
13. Texas Tech:…

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Based on TV ratings from the last 5 years of the 70 P5 teams and 13 other G5s of note (Army, Navy, Air Force, Memphis, Boise St, UTSA, USF, UNLV, Tulane, SDSU, Colorado St, UConn, Fresno St)…..

Rutgers ranks #75 in television viewership score. Out of 83 total

This is a proposal from a few people that has no legs…

I could make a similar proposal in 24 hours that would be just as good or better and have about the same likelihood of actually happening. Not sure it’s worth getting too wrapped around the axle in how divisions are distributed in somebody’s fantasy

BYU options are very limited by effectively requiring that the coach be LDS with temple recommend. And there’s a few potential NBA options, but noise is that BYU wants guys from the college game.

So that basically narrows it down to

1. Mark Madsen: Likely the top choice, but has a huge buyout (and we know how fiscally conservative BYU is) and…

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This became much more likely after Scott Drew turned the job down in a pretty public way.

Don’t get me wrong, Pope is a good coach, but Kentucky absolutely had their sights set higher for someone with a bigger name and more postseason success.

But after publicly being turned down by Pats, Donovan, Drew and others, they needed to make a hire and…[Read more]

I’ve looked at a bunch of 7 round mocks. They all have Elliss, Bishop, Vaki going and I’m pretty sure they all have Laumea as well. Bills I’ve seen in some but not in others and I’ve also seen Vele in a few.

Given that 5 doesn’t seem unreasonable. 3 (or really 4) is the floor and 6 is the ceiling, though I doubt we hit that

Note that this article isn’t predicting seeds, but teams best positioned to make the playoff (regardless of seed). Liberty is #5 because of their likely easier path for a G5 bid, not because they will be the #5 seed

I think the issue is that NIL doesn’t just represent $$$ (which everyone wants), but also commitment and feeling valued.

It’s not as clear-cut as professional athletes (who often have more $ than they could ever use, but want the respect/credit with a huge contract), but I do think (for many) a big NIL deal is also a proxy for “how much do you…[Read more]

….Guessing you didn’t read the article that was written by people who get paid to analyse this

The only short-term concern is [Rising’s] health, especially after Utah lost veteran backup and 2023 starter Bryson Barnes to the transfer portal, along with Mack Howard and former ESPN top-100 recruit Nate Johnson.

Sophomore Brandon Rose enters his…

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Yeah, I mean ESPN ranked Utah as having the 14th best QB situation in college football. https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/39670797/college-football-future-power-rankings-quarterbacks

14th! That means there are (if my math is correct) 13 teams with better QB situations than us. What trash, can’t believe we’d fail so…[Read more]

Even if he had an itch to get back into coaching, it’s tough to see him coming to Utah.

For example, he’s from Indiana, his wife is from Indiana, he coached in the state (Butler), his dad played football for Indiana, and his son just committed to play basketball in Indiana (Notre Dame).

And as it turns out, Indiana (a marquee basketball…[Read more]

Base salary of $12.6M over 6 years. That’s an average of $2.1M per year.

His first year salary was $1.85M, which makes it likely his salaries (by year) are

$1.85M, $1.95M, $2.05M, $2.15M, $2.25M, $2.35M.

Meaning if we moved on this year it would be a $6.65M buyout…just more than what we had to pay Krystkowiak when we moved on.

Waiting until…[Read more]

Yes, Krystkowiak was making $3.8M…but he also ended up having a $6.5M buyout, which limited Utah’s ability to bid big on the next guy.

So it ended up being Craig Smith at $2.1M/yr (on average). But if Utah moves on from him now, there will be a buyout cost of…about $6.5M (maybe a bit more). Which will again limit spending on the next guy

Amazingly, in the last 13 years, all teams from the state of Utah (Utah, BYU, Utah St, Weber St, Utah Valley) have combined to win only 3 NCAA Tournament games … and they’ve all been by Utah.

That’s kind of depressing for the whole state