brooklyn brownstone
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your best case scenario has us languishing 5 more years? Oof. DOA in that situation.
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Urmite
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I think he means you mentioned size of AA in regard to P5 poaching him…
sman
All A-10 player
ah. think I did say that.
it's not that I don't think AA can play at that level, even at 155 lbs. he's very good. but while he'll have the reigns here, not sure that's the case at a good HM.
*23*
Assistant coach
Sorry Brooklyn, but that is how I keep my sanity in regards to our Spiders situation. If something weird happens and Mooney is gone and we actually hire a good coach prior to that, I will be pretty pumped again. But until then - ho hum.
*23*
Assistant coach
As you can see, SLU gets it and adapted quickly. Meanwhile we are worrying about getting an extra $2 million. I have posted this a few times, with the opt in decision, seems like we could spend up to $20 million. Not advocating for that, but why not committ to be the top of the A10. I guess the reason is then Mooney does not have an excuse if he finishes 5 or 6 positions behind SLU and VCU?
I don't think SLU has more resources than Richmond? No, they just have a comittment to basketball.
sman
All A-10 player
they "only" have a $2B endowment.
but they have 3 times our student body and no football. hoops is truly their flagship. their arena holds 10,600.
They get major support from locals, as Tarrant used to say if you want to be prominent on national scene, first be prominent at home.
*23*
Assistant coach
I don't think they do, at least not in the past. In fact according to numbers Native posted, they only averaged 1500 more fans than us this year. This with them having a historic team and success and our fan morale at lowest point in years IMO.
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Assistant coach
We play FCS football, I don't think that is getting a big cut of our potential NIL spending. Our arena was downsized, which I didn't think a bad idea. Based on their inability to fill up their stadium in a historic year, probably not a bad idea for SLU too.
Yeah, you'd think with them being really the only basketball show in town in a pretty significant market that they would do better than 6,900 per game in that nice arena, especially with the success they had this year.
Granted, they were coming close to selling it out near the end of the year...10,277 for Dayton, 9,874 for La Salle, 10,223 for VCU, 9,937 for Duquesne, 9,605 for Loyola. It just took them a while to get there, and as you might imagine, the uninspired OOC schedule including SEMO, Chicago State, Lindenwood, etc. got them off to a slow start.
Granted, they were coming close to selling it out near the end of the year...10,277 for Dayton, 9,874 for La Salle, 10,223 for VCU, 9,937 for Duquesne, 9,605 for Loyola. It just took them a while to get there, and as you might imagine, the uninspired OOC schedule including SEMO, Chicago State, Lindenwood, etc. got them off to a slow start.
sman
All A-10 player
might be no cut at all of our NIL spending. but it's still 63 scholarships, equipment, coaches' salaries, and travel costs ... for 5 home games of revenue. it's expensive. SLU doesn't have that cost.
Urmite
Starter
Is this correct for FY2024?
Nationally/College/Billions
45/UR/3.245
53/VCU/2.886
57/GW/2.64
82/SLU/1.879
106/Davidson/1.375
133/Loyola/1.37
140/Fordham/1.025
Rest of A10 <1 billion
