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[Orange.]

Would rather watch gymnastics than Rowing.

I can see that. But rowing is cheaper. More money for baseball. Less money siphoned off from football.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

Would rather watch gymnastics than Rowing.

 

[VolPack22]

I understand. But I think it's a bad idea. Also, no money is rolling in from gymnastics. From what I hear gymnastics is a money pit.

I fear it would just be a new group and lobby siphoning off funds that could go to the teams we already have and complaining that other teams got more or whatever.

I want baseball to be a big winner in the change.

Also, I don't want football to be hurt. Supposedly they might eliminate walk-ons for football and significantly reduce roster sizes. I'm still trying to figure out how big a difference that will make. Idk. We were so depleted at DB in '22 that we had a walk-on playing in the 4th quarter when we beat Bama. Also I know of cases where we've been able to take a player by means of NIL sufficient to cover tuition.

I've mostly been concerned this whole time about the NCAA figuring out ways to re-introduce caps and limits. That's music to the ears of well-known mass cheaters like Bama, Georgia, Michigan, etc., who will be able to go back to their bag games wholesale. The NCAA is corrupt and always permits these teams to cheat with impunity. Meanwhile the NCAA will target rivals of the favorites.

I'm a rare guy who likes this so-called "wild west," but the last thing I want to do is start up talk about that! It's very divisive.

I’m completely fine with them cutting football roster sizes down. If the NFL can operate with 53 active players (48 actually dress) and a 16 player practice squad for a 17 game regular season then college teams can trim their insane 85 scholarship players (70 can only appear in a game currently). And that’s not even including the walk ons, so it’s more like 120 players actually on your roster currently. That’s ridiculous to me. Trim it down to 70 scholarship players and disperse those scholarships amongst the other sports like baseball that can’t even field an entire team with their measly 12 scholarships.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I’m completely fine with them cutting football roster sizes down. If the NFL can operate with 53 active players (48 actually dress) and a 16 player practice squad for a 17 game regular season then college teams can trim their insane 85 scholarship players (70 can only appear in a game currently). And that’s not even including the walk ons, so it’s more like 120 players actually on your roster currently. That’s ridiculous to me. Trim it down to 70 scholarship players and disperse those scholarships amongst the other sports like baseball that can’t even field an entire team with their measly 12 scholarships.

 

[VolPack22]

It’s a shame this guy is 30 and is a rookie. At least 5 years of MLB experience he missed out on. He isn’t a guy that will blow it past you but he is very effective with his pitches.

'Joy to watch': Cubs' Imanaga lowers ERA to 0.84

Chicago starter Shota Imanaga lowered his ERA to 0.84 on Saturday after throwing seven shutout innings in the Cubs' 1-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, the lowest mark through a pitcher's first nine career games since ERA became official in 1913.

www.espn.com

 

[VolPack22]

Don’t look now but the AL Central has 4 teams over .500, more than any other division in the majors

 

[knoxvol52]

I’m completely fine with them cutting football roster sizes down. If the NFL can operate with 53 active players (48 actually dress) and a 16 player practice squad for a 17 game regular season then college teams can trim their insane 85 scholarship players (70 can only appear in a game currently). And that’s not even including the walk ons, so it’s more like 120 players actually on your roster currently. That’s ridiculous to me. Trim it down to 70 scholarship players and disperse those scholarships amongst the other sports like baseball that can’t even field an entire team with their measly 12 scholarships.

Yea the huge roster size is weird, when only play now 15 games or 16 games tops if you're in playoffs. NFL plays 17 regular season games with a smaller rosters.

Baseball and Softball need full ride scholarships no doubt but as long as football is the cash cow things will never change.

 

[VolPack22]

Yea the huge roster size is weird, when only play now 15 games or 16 games tops if you're in playoffs. NFL plays 17 regular season games with a smaller rosters.

Baseball and Softball need full ride scholarships no doubt but as long as football is the cash cow things will never change.

What people don’t realize is if you cut the roster size then that’s less money you have to pay the football players. It makes too much business sense to not do it. Would you rather pay 85 football players or 70 football players, 25 baseball players, and 25 softball players? Those football players are pretty expensive.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

What's good for lunch today?

 

[VolPack22]

If $21M is the number agreed upon then I would have to imagine at least 50% of that would be set aside for football. 25% would go to the basketball teams and the remaining 25% would go to the rest of the athletes. The alternative would be to give football roughly 70%, basketball roughly 15%, and the rest 15%. Either way, football is going to get the biggest chunk due to the amount of money they bring in and basketball second because of the money they bring in. Purely a guess at this point

Football = $10.5M
Basketball = $5.25M
Remaining = $5.25M

Vs

Football = $15M
Basketball = $3M
Remaining = $3M

 

[VolPack22]

Based on Tennessee’s academic release in January there are roughly 600 student-athletes. That’s a lot of kids looking to make some money. If you trim the football rosters down to 70 and split $10.5M evenly then that’s $150k per football player. We all know it’s not going to be evenly distributed because positions will command different compensation but even if the minimum is $35k, that’s still a ton of money for a college football player.

 

[knoxvol52]

Based on Tennessee’s academic release in January there are roughly 600 student-athletes. That’s a lot of kids looking to make some money. If you trim the football rosters down to 70 and split $10.5M evenly then that’s $150k per football player. We all know it’s not going to be evenly distributed because positions will command different compensation but even if the minimum is $35k, that’s still a ton of money for a college football player.

$35k is plenty for a 3rd string QB who mostly likely never sees the field.

 

[VolPack22]

$35k is plenty for a 3rd string QB who mostly likely never sees the field.

Yeah the more I look at it, it would make the most sense to give football 50%, basketball 25%, and everyone else 25%. May not seem fair to the other athletes but football and basketball bring in the most money. Going to leave a little over $5M for the ~500 student-athletes that don’t play those sports. It is what it is. $10-$15k per year to play college baseball is better than nothing. That’s about $40-$60k over a 4 year career.