Sid Hartman: Budget not helping Gophers win games

[howeda7]

Bleed, when are you going to start to understand how things work at the U. The level of ignorance in GopherHole about these matters just astonishes me. Maturi has zero control over how much support is given to non-revenue sports. Those decisions are made way above him and influential U of M alumni have a huge impact on those decisions. Maturi does not make policy at the U. His job is to carry it out. The people who make the important decisions about intercollegiate athletics at the U do not care near enough about the Gopher football team. They tend to be liberals who are just not very interested in athletics. You are more likely to see them at theaters and art museums rather than football games. THAT is the problem that Gopher fans have been dealing with all of these years.

But if only the Vikings would move to LA, the U Administrators would magically start caring more about Gopher football and everything would get better? Right? Right?

 

[GopherGod]

I've got a brain storm commin' on.

What if we looked at our competitions product, say the Wiconsin badgers, Iowa Hawkeyes, etc and looked at what they did that had a direct impact on on-field results. And what if we did a little research into how much money that would cost us to do the same things. And what if we figured out what the benefits of doing that would be. And then we spent the money to create that system so we could have those results too? What if we did that?

We could call of spending the money up front to create a future return something like Bob, or gecklukestrom, or maybe something easier to say like investment. And then we could look at the greater fund raising we could do and income we recieve as something like Steve, or slumpinberken, or maybe Return on Investment.

And then we could call this whole process of analyzing the business to make these geckluckestroms to get slumpinberken something like Chad, or deestemsteeger, or I suppose we could call it business analysis.

I wish we could do something like that. It's too bad the UofM doesn't have some experts in things like business to tap into. Just trying to think outside of the box.

Being that Maturi worked in the athletic administration at Wisconsin for years, I would assume that he has a pretty good idea already of what they did to get things turned around. He either doesn't think he can do it here or has made the choice not to.

 

[Gopher in Dixie]

Aren't most administrators of Universities and Colleges coming from a liberal bent? If that's so, then Minnesota is no different than any other large public university when it comes to the makeup of it's administration. It's just that this particular admin. does not, and has not for 40 years, seen any real value to revenue producing sports or football. How do we compare in hockey and basketball? It would seem that we are actually in a BETTER position than many schools in that we have THREE revenue producing sports and most have only two (lacking hockey).

 

[stevedave23]

U Football only made $1.5M more last year because they had to pay 1.5M security guards to pat down people at the entrances.

 

[BeerBibleBullets]

They need to up the spending, that what keeps some talented candidates from considering us. Not many want to walk into a situation where they have the lowest budget of their peers, espcially if its more than a 2-1 disadvantage.

But we have some poor decision makers in the organization who decide things like no booze in suites. This makes contributors and likely suite renters like myself very upset.

 

[GoAUpher]

Being that Maturi worked in the athletic administration at Wisconsin for years, I would assume that he has a pretty good idea already of what they did to get things turned around. He either doesn't think he can do it here or has made the choice not to.

This isn't a terrible point. One other option...he's tried and failed (either b/c of something he's doing wrong or b/c of issues/institutions he is up against).

 

[GoAUpher]

They need to up the spending, that what keeps some talented candidates from considering us. Not many want to walk into a situation where they have the lowest budget of their peers, espcially if its more than a 2-1 disadvantage.

But we have some poor decision makers in the organization who decide things like no booze in suites. This makes contributors and likely suite renters like myself very upset.

Again, the spending issue isn't cut and dried (though I personally believe it is still a factor). Also, we had talented candidates consider us last time (Charlie Strong I'm looking at you...and the TCU coach if you believe he was serious) but Maturi chose Brew.