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Pac-12 commissioner made a visit to SMU.

Potential dominoes:

San Diego St- to PAC from MWC
SMU- to PAC from MWC

MWC down to 10 (11 for FB)
AAC down to 13 (with CUSA additions)

MWC Candidates:

NM State
UTEP
Texas State
Tulsa
Montana
Montana State
N Dakota State
S Dakota State
Gonzaga (MWC recently hired WCC's commissioner)

AAC Candidates:

GA State
Appalachian State
Middle Tennessee
Marshall
Florida International
N Dakota State (FB Only)
S Dakota State (FB Only)
UTEP
Old Dominion
Army (FB Only)
Air Force
 

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niklz62 said:
arguing just to argue, but is a flight from one place to another much more expensive than a flight from one place to a farther location?
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The flights aren't the expense. Many of these teams send multiple semis of gameday equipment and gear across the country so the expense to do so will increase with greater distance. I remember reading a PFL article that the OpEx were like 70%+ of what most FCS teams were spending on the programs with their footprint. It would almost be cheaper for a Valpo, for example, to fund scholarships and then join the OVC. It's also the reason why even we in the MVFC didn't want multiple Dakota trips.

IMO, for many non-P5 schools, they should be tightening into condensed, regional footprints, not expanding coast-to-coast. It's the only way I see them making it long term.
 
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niklz62 said:
arguing just to argue, but is a flight from one place to another much more expensive than a flight from one place to a farther location
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arguably if it wasn't moving a football team

but flying a MBB team is more expensive than bussing a MBB team
 

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I gotta think these schools understand the cost vs. say staying the the OVC or whatever the options for the western teams were. I also thought all these schools were going FBS. Not sure where I got that from.
 
niklz62 said:
I gotta think these schools understand the cost vs. say staying the the OVC or whatever the options for the western teams were. I also thought all these schools were going FBS. Not sure where I got that from.
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I don't think they do. They're siloed off in their own little worlds. Shit, look at the NIL bills popping all across the country. Some states are now saying revenue sports will need to be paid a portion of revenues, when most of the revenues are student fees and direct/indirect school funding and don't actually come from any sort of media rights, ticket sales or gameday revenues, licensing/merch sales, etc.

$13.1m of our $18.6m in "revenues" comes from a subsidy of student fees or the school's coffers. I looked up 4 of the schools in the list and they have similar "revenue" profiles. That is bad fucking business and is not sustainable because college enrollment numbers are flat to decreasing. So you have to continually raise the fee or you have to raise tuition, both on the back of the students.

The current system, as designed, is fundamentally broken. College athletics has turned into a business but cannot be run as one due to NCAA rules and Federal legislation.

Indiana State University | College Athletics Database

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So, from The Baseball the football program brings in 185k in income? Ok, I’ll bite! What is the issue then?
 
Jason Svoboda said:
No, it doesn't.

https://sycamorepride.com/threads/w...s-to-the-ovc.44684/page-2#post-344263[/QUOTE]
OK, where did the other guy get his figures? I saw the same item he did according to their figures they make available. I mean I’ve heard we lose 3-3.5 million a year with the program. Are those guys just shooting from the hip? What is the true amount that ISU Football spends verses their income?
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