Our spending on this football program is outrageous!

[CuseOnly]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ities-help-acc-keep-up-with-joneses/15789499/

Sounds like we're right in line with most of the other ACC programs. NC St and Wake Forest just broke grounds for IPF's within the past 3 months. Va Tech's building is from the 1970's and plans to break ground for a new one next year, Fla St's is a year and a half old, Duke and Gtech's is 3 years old while Boston College and Miami still don't have one. We're also planning some dome upgrades.

Dome upgrades like widening the concourses, real seats, a hard roof (retractable or not) and better food? Or Dome upgrades like painting murals on the gray walls near the emergency medical and student sections?

 

[SWC75]

Dome upgrades like widening the concourses, real seats, a hard roof (retractable or not) and better food? Or Dome upgrades like painting murals on the gray walls near the emergency medical and student sections?

Yeah. Better food at the Dome and we'd be 10-2.

 

[4the Dubs]

Tax Dollars at work...

http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080113aao.html

 

[Full_Rebar]

How about this one from today? Direct benefits to students in a couple of areas

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...25-million-academic-center-20141219-post.html

The school announced the project includes a renovation of Farrior Hall that double the building’s square footage and include 50 tutoring rooms, three computer labs, a 100-plus-seat classroom, a nutrition wing and a sports medicine research area, along with staff offices.

 

[Moontan]

Valid point as to Pac12. We recruit against Big 12's WVU often

WVU's teams need to schlep a long way to the airport for every road game. On top of that, their closest road games are in China. They also play in the freezing cold.

 

[CuseOnly]

This is an example of what a good football team and a good athletics department can mean to a university and this should be the goal. Not of course the overall dollars and donations discussed. Basically I am talking about the impact on revenue for a university overall that a good football team can have, not just for the athletics department. Tuition increases, enrollment increases more out of state enrollees, etc.

Athletics have a huge value to a University and are the fact of the program, not the professors that nobody knows. Barry Switzer said once, "I have never seen fifty thousand people show up to watch a math test."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanr...f-nick-saban-everyone-wants-to-go-to-alabama/

 

[Full_Rebar]

This is an example of what a good football team and a good athletics department can mean to a university and this should be the goal. Not of course the overall dollars and donations discussed. Basically I am talking about the impact on revenue for a university overall that a good football team can have, not just for the athletics department. Tuition increases, enrollment increases more out of state enrollees, etc.

Athletics have a huge value to a University and are the fact of the program, not the professors that nobody knows. Barry Switzer said once, "I have never seen fifty thousand people show up to watch a math test."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanr...f-nick-saban-everyone-wants-to-go-to-alabama/

By Switzer's logic, no one applies to Syracuse because of the rankings of Newhouse, Maxwell, etc? Athletics certainly plays a role in driving admissions, but is it a better investment than spending in other areas- housing and rec facilities, student amenities?

 

[CuseOnly]

By Switzer's logic, no one applies to Syracuse because of the rankings of Newhouse, Maxwell, etc? Athletics certainly plays a role in driving admissions, but is it a better investment than spending in other areas- housing and rec facilities, student amenities?

You are correct, assuming that investing in better housing and rec facilities will result in $90 million in additional revenue a year for the university like it did for Alabama. Not sure they wrote an article about their return on investment with regard to academics. Don't think that would get the press that the football team did or does. Maybe if they post grades or something it would.