I like GOOOOLD (and green)

They ended up hiring that hc from booker t Washington instead so I think they went in a different direction.

Debbie downer.

I don’t know about GM himself but they’re assembling quite the staff. They’re getting basically all the best south Florida and Alabama recruiters.

At least it’s better than the knights, they gave up like 40 runs in three games to fau.

Houston and Temple come to mind as similars. I'd probably include ucf in there as well because Orlando is more than a college town, it's projected to be bigger than Tampa in our lifetime. San Diego State may be in that group as well, especially if you look past just football.

Having all the upperclassmen and transfers are nice for a winning build. But it either clicks or it doesn't, and can we argue that we're clicking? The AAC is competitive enough to where I don't think that a team can go o'fer in OOC play then expect to be in the running for a conference championship (sorry PUC). FCS games don't count in the metric either way. In this case, wouldn't it be better to consolidate the rebuild (you said yourself that the next couple years look young) and prepare them for a better start next season? Again I'm not sure the difference between being bad bowl eligible (maybe?) with Barnett et al at the helm and having a straight up rebuilding year are that far apart, with the benefit obviously being a more experienced group next season and beyond.

This may not be the hottest take but if this is a rebuilding year then why not just hand it over to McLeod so he can be seasoned for next year? What good is Barnett if he only gets you an extra win or two (maybe) over the course of the season vs McLeod? If it's the difference between 10-2 and 8-4 maybe but what's the difference between 4-8 and 3-9 really?

That's the wrong album! Aenema....

I really don't think that is true. I hope it is though.

I'm seeing 9-3 but 8-4 would be good imo.

It's a little early for my predictions but I must say I like our chances better now that the other guys just lost their starting QB, they'll have to rely on a grad transfer or a true freshman now.

Those are some heavy points from a UConn fan.

Women's Basketball.

Why would you explain an analogy to me that not only lacked merit to begin with but ultimately had nothing to do with my own assertion? Why did you feel the need to go into poorly thought out detail that Bianchi is a dolt/homer/etc when we know what he is already? Deflection is the answer. You're doing it again above. I calculated out a minimum 1.3/game payday, noting it was likely higher, referencing what Bianchi said in subsequent post; the actual number he said is meaningless. Does that compute? It looks like the forbes article made its way here after all. Moving on, this usatoday finance spreadsheet says that there's only a 6 mil difference between the two schools in facilities/overhead cost. https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/.

Is Wisky even supposed to be good this year? Traditionally with them if you stop/slow the run, you beat them.

No I didn't, I posted real numbers from an impartial source that showed you were wrong. I then followed up by saying even Mike Bianchi says its 3-4 million, but also that there's no citations listed where he got that from so 'grain of salt alert'. You still being butt hurt over having your (I presume time consuming) research disproven, you resorted to poor reading comprehension at best to try to make it out like I'm some sort of Bianchi apologist or follower...which is asinine. You also followed up with the asinine analogy with baseball and football, which is almost as bad as not reading clearly.

Seeing as how they didn't have 7 home games without the postseason that year there's really no argument that they need 7 home games. Which all that does is call bs on their strategy, meaning they could afford at least one 2-1 every now and again.

So I either post sources that are easily googled (first page), as if I need validation from anyone here anyway, just to be called a troll if I do...or I refuse to provide links and clicks and am called a closet fan anyway. I'm clearly dealing with the highest caliber fans out there. You guys are pathetic. It's obvious they are making bank, certainly enough to cover their cheap ass stadium-which is all I posed to begin with. Your faux rage clouded you so much that you can't even acknowledge the basics.

Nah x 2

I think you are aware that ticket prices are only a small amount of what is actually paid per person, right? I've never been to a game at their stadium but I can't imagine it would magically be any less than what I've paid at other fb stadiums.

You are a definite fanatic, that's why you'd never be accused of being a pragmatist. I'm not a fanatic in the way that you are, at least about football. HOOPS all day!

I'm not the one making the assertions, just referencing what is publicly out there. As far as your analogy, its a poor one regardless of context. Baseball revenue is so different than Football. And NY has ~24 times the revenue opps compared to any college FB team, its a different model. FB is so much more expensive than Baseball across the board anyway. I have never not spent >$70 per person at a football game, and I've been relatively poor until this year, spending is only going up. Hell, I just spent over 200 for 4 people at a minor league baseball game. Moral of the story is there are a lot of people that spend more than 70 per head for a football game.

I didn't assert that, the math I came up with was already mentioned in detail and that came out to just north of 1.3 per game in 2017. That was from Forbes, and it lists the 'expenses' you mention. Bianchi came up with the 3-4 million number which doesn't have specifics so it could be a grain of salt thing, I don't know. The point was that the number is likely much higher than 1.3 per game for the reasons previously listed. Both the Forbes and Bianchi thing are easily googled @Triple B Again, not saying Bianchi was right. The Forbes one seems credible though slightly dated.

As far as I'm concerned if their boss (AD) says they're doing what's in their best interest then I'm taking them at their word. I don't care enough to think about what I'd do if I was in their situation. The numbers didn't seem right in the other poster's comment so I did some digging to check how credible it was. I'm just glad that there's not going to be scheduling problems on the horizon, and a bonus if we can put together a 10 win season with one of these years that Alabama's on the schedule.

I'd hardly call it a trap game. More like a 'holy **** we didn't know these guys would be good when we scheduled them' game.