promotherobot Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 I think Buffalo can set a trend for good mid- majors. Get Nevada on the phone. Furman too. Reach out to the teams in the same boat as us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, promotherobot said: I think Buffalo can set a trend for good mid- majors. Get Nevada on the phone. Furman too. Reach out to the teams in the same boat as us. Nevada can get games. They don’t have scheduling issues. They get good home games, good neutral court games, and can afford to buy teams. Furman is likely a one hit wonder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 https://www.heraldonline.com/sports/college/big-south/winthrop-university/article222906070.html saw this article on Winthrop scheduling and thought people would like it. The reason midmajors wont play each other and play nonD1 games is because they like to offset a paycheck game at a major program with a cheap win at home. Get a six figure check for a major game and then pay a non-D1 team $2k to come in for a win. Not worth it to fly to another midmajor game as it is expensive and you lose s home game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rma Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 I think our solution here is to continue the home-home in the same season until we can find schools that want to play us. It sucks because we'd put more eggs in a single basket (side note: we should be rooting hard for SIU the rest of the season), but it can help us a lot if we get a good MM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bull_trojan Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 So let's say we got the option of 3 funds: OOC Guarantee Fund: 6.7 million endowed to give 300k annually to the program earmarked to pay 3 teams 100k to come to Alumni. Nate Oats pay the man Fund: Same amount endowed to add to his salary to keep him around. Basketball Practice Facility Fund: 6.7 Million as the 50% needed to finance a 13.4 million facility. Which do you support? Honestly the money might be best spent on the OOC fund. More marquee games, more ticket sales, bigger fan base, possibly higher ticket prices, but the resulting cash could pay for more Oats money and a practice facility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 6 minutes ago, bull_trojan said: So let's say we got the option of 3 funds: OOC Guarantee Fund: 6.7 million endowed to give 300k annually to the program earmarked to pay 3 teams 100k to come to Alumni. Nate Oats pay the man Fund: Same amount endowed to add to his salary to keep him around. Basketball Practice Facility Fund: 6.7 Million as the 50% needed to finance a 13.4 million facility. Which do you support? Honestly the money might be best spent on the OOC fund. More marquee games, more ticket sales, bigger fan base, possibly higher ticket prices, but the resulting cash could pay for more Oats money and a practice facility. The practice facility is lowest priority for sure. Beefing up the OOC is probably the most important. If you’re funding the schedule you can always hire a good replacement when Oats leaves. That OOC budget would put UB right in line with a program like ODU. Which is probably where they should be right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Should note: I wouldn’t endow scheduling. Scheduling should be a short term expense. It shouldn’t require an endowment. So you could do a few things with 6 mil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 10 minutes ago, bull_trojan said: So let's say we got the option of 3 funds: OOC Guarantee Fund: 6.7 million endowed to give 300k annually to the program earmarked to pay 3 teams 100k to come to Alumni. Nate Oats pay the man Fund: Same amount endowed to add to his salary to keep him around. Basketball Practice Facility Fund: 6.7 Million as the 50% needed to finance a 13.4 million facility. Which do you support? Honestly the money might be best spent on the OOC fund. More marquee games, more ticket sales, bigger fan base, possibly higher ticket prices, but the resulting cash could pay for more Oats money and a practice facility. Interesting question. Its like what came first the chicken or the egg. For right now until the point in which Oats leaves (hoping he doesn't) we should strike while the iron is hot and budget for maximum exposure. And hope the funds, recruits and wins roll in. Funds that we can then use to fund a raise for Oats and upgrades for the program. Now is the time to lay the foundation for the near future. However, I feel that if Oats were to bolt while he's a hot commodity we could be back to square 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bull_trojan Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 42 minutes ago, dutchcountry7 said: Should note: I wouldn’t endow scheduling. Scheduling should be a short term expense. It shouldn’t require an endowment. So you could do a few things with 6 mil Fair, figure you'd only have to go 300k a year until Alumni gets "status" as a basketball destination maybe 5 years... = 1.5 million? Side note, so much of the media is calling out UCF for not wanting to go (2 for 1) even people calling UCF scared of UF. The media makes it so hard for mid majors to schedule. P5 teams duck and hide, and media calls out the G5 teams for being scared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 On 12/16/2018 at 9:01 PM, dutchcountry7 said: https://www.heraldonline.com/sports/college/big-south/winthrop-university/article222906070.html saw this article on Winthrop scheduling and thought people would like it. The reason midmajors wont play each other and play nonD1 games is because they like to offset a paycheck game at a major program with a cheap win at home. Get a six figure check for a major game and then pay a non-D1 team $2k to come in for a win. Not worth it to fly to another midmajor game as it is expensive and you lose s home game. Just a great and very informative article about Winthrop and the problems all mid majors have had in scheduling games. The worst part is what the NCAA has done in a round about way is make it harder for mid majors to schedule games. The power 5/7 conferences and the NCAA big wigs have only their millions of dollars in mind and really could care less about the mid majors. All college basketball fans need to know the truth about what the NCAA power brokers are doing. The worst part of this whole mess is the majority of the media know what is going on and care less because that is where the bread is buttered. I will continue to support our mid majors and UB. Go Bulls!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchcountry7 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 11 hours ago, John said: The worst part is what the NCAA has done in a round about way is make it harder for mid majors to schedule games. What is this suppose to mean? What NCAA policy are you complaining about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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