Final decision made on Paris
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Don’t worry though. We’re about to see an unprecedented run in basketball… SEC champs and NCAA champs!!!!
A big name coach doesn't guarantee success. The Ole Miss basketball coach is a fairly big name and they sucked this year
Mike Morgan reporting that we are going to be upping NIL to the $9-11M range.
Won't make a difference.
It’s frustrating. They think NIL is the issue.
The scariest part is that they tripled what they gave them last season and thought that would be competitive. 9-11 million may not be enough.
The University of South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks.....................We Love to Lose.
Should be the mission statement of our athletics department.
Should be the mission statement of our athletics department.
NIL is the ultimate scapegoat now. We suck? It's only b/c we don't spend enough on NIL.
NIL= Throwing good money after bad. I'm currently in my last year of GC membership and football tickets after 55 years. The early years were complimentary of my father. I'll frame my card that has 55 consecutive years on it. Maybe mail it to the athletic department and tell them they got what they wanted.
I hope you are wrong, but fear you are right, and I'm sure you agree with me.
We spent just under $6M for this team. Morgan said 3 years ago, that would have been a ton of money for basketball. We basically put up triple what we had, and everyone else upped the spending even more. So we don’t know if 9-11 million is even enough at this point.
Kentucky will spend 20 Million apparently
Mike Morgan said we we basically tripled the amount available for this season.
Keeping Paris guarantees failure though. He can't coach. Anyone with eyes could see that this year.
Estimated SEC men’s basketball NIL budgets, current:
1 Kentucky $20–22M
2 Arkansas $10–12M
3 Tennessee $9–11M
4 Auburn $8–10M
5 Alabama $7–9M
6 Texas $7–9M
7 Florida $7–8M
8 LSU $6–8M
9 Oklahoma $6–8M
10 Texas A&M $5–7M
11 Ole Miss $5–7M
12 Georgia $5–7M
13 Mississippi State $4–6M
14 Missouri $4–6M
15 South Carolina $3–5M
16 Vanderbilt $3–5M
1 Kentucky $20–22M
2 Arkansas $10–12M
3 Tennessee $9–11M
4 Auburn $8–10M
5 Alabama $7–9M
6 Texas $7–9M
7 Florida $7–8M
8 LSU $6–8M
9 Oklahoma $6–8M
10 Texas A&M $5–7M
11 Ole Miss $5–7M
12 Georgia $5–7M
13 Mississippi State $4–6M
14 Missouri $4–6M
15 South Carolina $3–5M
16 Vanderbilt $3–5M
We lost too many games in the final minutes this year to feel good about coaching... that is when we weren't getting smoked.
It appears you and your boy Matt Anderson were incorrect. We spent less than you suggested (near the bottom of the SEC). It doesn't appear Paris left money on the table as you suggested.
We can save roughly $1mil a year by firing the fat dumbass that hired all of our men's coaches which consistently underperform. I'd be OK with Donati bringing Paris back but throwing Tanner under the (necessarily large) bus for 2026-2027.
When you have no solutions just throw money at it. Outside of WBB these programs are the septic tank of the SEC. I’m glad I stopped giving money to the Athletic Department
Attended a couple Wingate football games the last few seasons. One was against Lenior-Rhyne, a rivalry game, and conference championship implications involved. It was the most entertaining college game I have seen in person. Was at their senior day this season, very fun environment.
Softball joining in on the losing fun. Baseball just status quo losing now, getting blown out by the Fortress of Knowledge.
Is awesome. I've been to a couple - Mississippi at home a couple of years ago, and vs Georgia in Athens last season..
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Nevermind the fact that I literally stated we spent at the bottom of the SEC just recently, that the number was between 5-6 million, and that what it would take is 9-11M all according to Matt Anderson and Mike Morgan… yet somehow I was wrong lol