Honestly I just don’t think that people in CNY realize the amount of time, effort and capital is put towards athletics at state schools now in the Power conferences. It’s tied into local and state governments, their local economies, I’ve read stories about the judges and courts that are crazy in some places like they won’t tax players NIL.
Case in point we still want to get “deals” and value on investments on Syracuse sports while public schools are writing blank checks to pretty much anything they ask. I won’t be surprised if some team shows up with some AI super computer doing metrics real time on games soon.
Also Cuse sports are answering to a Board of trustees while the decision makers at state schools are public officials. Guess who they answer to, yea the public and the public at Kansas, or Houston, or Iowa St, or Tennessee will absolutely show up with pitchforks to toss out a coach if they performed half as poorly as Autry.