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You realize PSU cannot even make a 500k goal with NIL currently? Where do you think that money will come from since the school cannot currently pay for anyone directly via NIL. PSU fans want a MNC first and then they'll pay up....or once they fire this HC and hire a Joe guy it will all be fixed. The circular logic that is the PSU football community. I want a Ferrari, he is my 40k, where is my Ferrarri?
Sometimes I wonder if the dog is chasing the tail or if the tail is chasing the dog
I took his argument to be that you use the $40+ million for this instead of the facility upgrade
Gotcha, maybe he did but unless I'm mistaken the school cannot yet cut NIL money directly?
It was a post about the current state of college athletics, not about what actually can happen with PSU and the NIL fringe. It was to illustrate how cheap it really is to buy a winning team and that the money, like most things spent at most college campuses, is being spent unwisely on buildings rather than on the people who occupy them. $700 million for a new facility that won't attract a super team vs. spending less than $50 million for an actual super team. It's to illustrate an absurdity/contradiction with the entire collegiate "student-athlete" system that no longer works with the times we are living in.
PSU, if one wishes to be honest, is likely over achieving in the current environment. I don't know how they kept Allen, Singleton, and Carter etc. Many people here are still living in "deal old State." It's long dead. It died when everyone accepted the way they fired Joe. It didn't get buried properly until pay for play.
Unintentionally, that should be the new motto.
Guess spending $105mm wasn't enough, though some schools on the list apparently spent less.College football's 30 most impressive facilities in 2024, ranked
When it comes to upgraded facilities and state-of-the-art amenities, these programs spare no expense.
Glad to see PSU made the list....barely.
Guess not. Some schools on the list also spent throughout the years and tried to keep up. Some didn't because they were too good for it. Just like PSU won't keep up with NIL as other schools will.
Sure. And you think the writer knows what he's talking about? The $48.3mm upgrade "coming soon" was completed in 2022.
Washington just made a $2,100,000 dollar NIL payment to secure the services of Utah's best basketball player for his senior year. One of my apprehensions regarding the "Brave New World" of college athletics is what I envision will be a spiraling upsurge in the cost to do business. How much is, or perhaps more important, will be, enough?
Where is all that money PSU didn't spend? I would love to know where that is stashed away - must be a very, very big shoebox.
So in the late 90’s and early on in the 2000’s they were keeping up with the SEC and tOSU. Must be nice to rewrite history.
If I recall, Lasch and the indoor facility were considered state of the art when they opened in the 90s.
Lasch opened in 1999. The Woody Hayes Athletic Center (guess where) was built in 1987 and didn't undergo any significant renovation for about 20 years.
#3... all with JayPa, Lubrano, (oh, and you) being gigantic, K2 size road blocks to the overall spending, and therefore success, of PSU football.
Gentlemen,
they were and then we just kind of put it neutral and coasted for the next 20+ years.
As did Ohio State.
Revenue, gentlemen, that's the gross. You want to look at the net. After all, Big Game James can't be expected to work for free.PSU athletic department was #8 in revenue per an article in 2023 (I don't know if they cook the books, but according to the article UVA only makes $20mm less per year than PSU, which I find stunning). It also shows PSU with a net of about $10mm after expenses (snicker).
USA Today releases Top 25 revenue earning college athletic programs for 2022
USA Today has released a database of the total revenue produced by college programs during the 2022-23 athletics year.www.on3.com
Better than even chance that "NIL" isn't even a thing in 5 years.
That would be my guess. NIL would still exist, but it would evolve into endorsement deals like pro athletes have. The money-laundering aspects would vanish.
It's not like the sport is governed now but I'm sure it will be in 5 years after the last 3 decades of pay for play. There will still be no incentive to not cheat or pay extra...or I'll believe it when I see it.
All IMO:
You mean like the NFL where teams cheat against the salary cap on a regular basis.It's not like the sport is governed now but I'm sure it will be in 5 years after the last 3 decades of pay for play. There will still be no incentive to not cheat or pay extra...or I'll believe it when I see it.
