Non-Lady Vol Basketball News 2024-25

[th2421]

These girls made the rosters and are still active....Can you show me any other time that bench players were drafted and made the respective teams?????? The operative words are "bench players drafted that made a roster". You are again just spewing silliness because you are wrong. End of story. Geez.

Kiah Stokes (UConn) comes to mind as a college bench player (only started 7 games in her career) who's stuck in the league (and often as a starter), but it's pretty rare.

I remember Kelley Cain was a partial starter (about ~1/2 games, averaging only 17 minutes) her senior year at Tennessee and lasted two years in the W.

Charde Houston (UConn) is another one - I can't find how often she started but she only averaged 16 minutes her senior year and lasted 7 seasons in the W - including two as a starter.

 

[Poultrygeist]

Forgive me for failing to recognize the beauty of SC benchwarmers having the opportunity to be benchwarmers in the W. I thought you were saying SC's benchies (remember when Geno use to call his "the slugs"?) had gone on to be W stars.

SC's benchwarmers currently provide 52.3% of the team's total offense.

 

[1reVOLver]

Staley's $25M deal richest in women's hoops

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley received a contract extension on Friday that will make her the highest-paid college women's basketball coach of all time at a total value of about $25 million.

www.espn.com

 

[JustaChicken]

I know it's been posted but what an incredible achievement for coach Staley!

 

[Flogballs]

Staley's $25M deal richest in women's hoops

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley received a contract extension on Friday that will make her the highest-paid college women's basketball coach of all time at a total value of about $25 million.

www.espn.com

I don’t understand this business model.

 

[1reVOLver]

I don’t understand this business model.

Some people assume that every enterprise earning revenue ought to be profit seeking.
That stance overlooks the possibility that the enterprise provides either indirect monetary benefits or non-monetary benefits or both. A business is, by definition, rent seeking.

I ran cross country as an undergrad. The team was a money loser, in a small but meaningful way. I don't recall anyone ever questioning the “business model”. Likewise the CDC and NIH, that provide extraordinary public benefits but will never break even by accepted accounting practices.

I would suggest that there is no “business model” to understand. Whether you would consider the salary an expense or a capital investment, the University chooses to spend the funds for the betterment of (1) the participants, (2) the recipient, (3) the team as an entity, (4) the athletic department, (5) the University, and indirectly, (6) women’s sports.

 

[JustaChicken]

"Dawn Staley is now also believed to be the highest-paid female coach in the world in any sport."

 

[And1]

"Dawn Staley is now also believed to be the highest-paid female coach in the world in any sport."

Coach Caldwell is going to be very rich when she wins the championship for Tennessee.

 

[gule]

You do know what's gonna happen if CKC wins a natty, don't you?

 

[gule]

beat me by - much

 

[Flogballs]

Some people assume that every enterprise earning revenue ought to be profit seeking.
That stance overlooks the possibility that the enterprise provides either indirect monetary benefits or non-monetary benefits or both. A business is, by definition, rent seeking.

I ran cross country as an undergrad. The team was a money loser, in a small but meaningful way. I don't recall anyone ever questioning the “business model”. Likewise the CDC and NIH, that provide extraordinary public benefits but will never break even by accepted accounting practices.

I would suggest that there is no “business model” to understand. Whether you would consider the salary an expense or a capital investment, the University chooses to spend the funds for the betterment of (1) the participants, (2) the recipient, (3) the team as an entity, (4) the athletic department, (5) the University, and indirectly, (6) women’s sports.

I would agree, but that doesn’t jive with the overall direction of college athletics today that is increasingly business-driven.

 

[Voltopia]

I would agree, but that doesn’t jive with the overall direction of college athletics today that is increasingly business-driven.

At a handful of schools who have sought to cast off the shackles of competitive fairness in specific sports for some time now.

 

[Voltopia]

I know it's been posted but what an incredible achievement for coach Staley!

I don't begrudge her getting recognition or treatment for her success, so this isn't specifically about Staley getting a bag - but it's hard to understand how these schools can hand out deals like this one for programs that hover at or below revenue neutrality. Last I read, I'm not even sure how far South Carolina has operated in the green these past few years. I suppose as long as they have the external support to fund it, but with everyone and everything coming to cut a piece of flesh off the athletics programs, it just seems incredibly unsustainable.

And before anyone jumps at me, I feel somewhat similarly overpriced football coaching salaries as well.

 

[Lucy]

Coach Caldwell is going to be very rich when she wins the championship for Tennessee.

Alvin will never need to worry about his allowance!