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Ticket sales and merchandise. I’m assuming the general gopher football fan will still attend and buy tickets if they go from 9/8 wins a year to 7/6. I don’t believe many football fans tnink our program has a shot, they just enjoy the experience.

This is another argument for less to football and more to hockey and basketball.

That could be, but then all non-Big East schools would be fighting massive uphill fights. The Big East could spend the entire 20.5m on basketball (no football). Hopefully, it’s not mandated, and schools can get creative and determine what’s best for their fanbase on a yearly basis.

Define competitve? We placed 8th in the Big10 this year. Which programs are we going to leap frog… Indiana Ohio state Michigan Oregon USC Iowa Washington Illinois Nebraska Penn State (massive off year) We are maybe fighting with Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Washington on a yearly basis. So...

Not arguing football is the money maker. But if we shift some of those funds in the rec-share bucket away from football and towards basketball…we will probably have 2 more football losses (either way not the cfp). And we could generate significantly more basketball revenue.

Revenue share and their media contract is different. 20.5 is the revenue sharing today, but over the next 5 years it will go above 30m (if we go to the cap…and a big-ten school better).

TV contracts are locked for years. Our athletic department will be cashing those checks until the next BigTen media rights deal renews. They pay that ~75m in an equal share to all schools (minus the new-comers I believe). So even if we gutted our football team (not suggesting that) we would...

they also have football players lining up in the parking lot in Lambos…different situation with our NIL. Texas Tech and Texas had some of the most expensive football rosters this year (NIL + revenue sharing). We can’t compete. I’m not arguing for shifting NIL dollars as donors will always pick...

They are essentially the bottom of the big ten now. 8th out of 18 is essentially the bottom. As the Common Man says; were the best of the lousiest, and the lousiest of the best.

What is the difference, in actual outcomes if we go from ~15.4 (rounded 75% of 20.5M rev share) in football down to say 10 or 11? 2 less wins? At the end of the day, we are never going to the CFP, and we will be stuck in terrible bowls. Does having two less football wins mean more to the U than...

I get the theoretical ROI argument for football — but at Minnesota, football ROI is capped. There’s no meaningful upside. We’re averaging 46,519 in football attendance and it’s fallen two straight years. That’s not a blip, that’s a trend. There’s an entire thread on here documenting it. Even...

Alright, dusting off the old Wet_Blanket_Guy account. Yes, that one. No, I’m not here to apologize. I’ve always been a Gopher fan — I just refuse to pretend every decision out of that building is automatically brilliant. I watched my first Gopher game of the year when they played at Illinois...

Separate but similar topic; on the radio this morning they were talking about this scenario: - maybe shadeur Sanders (if undrafted or a low round pick) will opt to go back to school as he still has a year of eligibility…and his NIL deal will be bigger than a late round non-guaranteed contract...

I guess Marcus and I (speaking for many) have different definitions of “winning”.

it won’t happen every year. As I said they lost Rhode two years ago, nothing last year (ajani lee was close to nothing (akin to losing carrington / Henley). But they are filling out there roster with players from teams who are losing guys…the portal sucks should be the takeaway