College Basketball 2025-26 Season Thread - Kansas State fires Tang

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nycfan said:


This sounds kinda bad but maybe normal?
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I think it's both kinda bad and, sadly, something that will become normal.

The highest level of college sports is going to separate (again) in the next 5-10 years with a round of division between the haves and have nots.

What State is experiencing is likely to be common until that split is complete between teams that are either not (full members) in the best conferences or aren't the best teams in the second tier of conferences. Right now, there's just no way for schools outside of the SEC/B1G to compete with the money of those conferences unless they're bringing in significant money from higher than normal conference distributions or have significant non-media funds to spend.
 
mpaer said:
We are at -15 i think
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True enough but that number stings NCSU a lot worse.

1. They don't have a substantial athletic endowment.
2. The Wolfpack club annual giving pales in comparison to the Rams Club
3. We are funding more sports which are total losses because they generate no revenue at all.
 
That's really surprising for UNC. I would assume you guys are closer to break-even. I know Duke is. I found this graph from 2 FYs ago....I have no idea what the "not allocated to a specific sport" thing is, but probably things like equipment services, training tables, etc?


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aGDevil2k said:
That's really surprising for UNC. I would assume you guys are closer to break-even. I know Duke is. I found this graph from 2 FYs ago....I have no idea what the "not allocated to a specific sport" thing is, but probably things like equipment services, training tables, etc?


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Lol, have you seen what we are paying the football fiasco?
 
SnoopRob said:
I think it's both kinda bad and, sadly, something that will become normal.

The highest level of college sports is going to separate (again) in the next 5-10 years with a round of division between the haves and have nots.

What State is experiencing is likely to be common until that split is complete between teams that are either not (full members) in the best conferences or aren't the best teams in the second tier of conferences. Right now, there's just no way for schools outside of the SEC/B1G to compete with the money of those conferences unless they're bringing in significant money from higher than normal conference distributions or have significant non-media funds to spend.
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I hope the bigger schools just break off and have their own league for football and basketball. The original Power 5 schools had 64 teams and Notre Dame made 65. If they kept 64 teams you could have 8 regions of 8 teams. If they cut it down to 32 for football then 4 regions of 8 teams, or just do it like the NFL and have 8 regions of 4 teams. Basketball could have 64 teams and cut the tournament down to 32 teams. Or maybe have 48 teams and a play-in round for the last 16 in with 24 teams getting a bye the first round.
 
C-Money said:
I hope the bigger schools just break off and have their own league for football and basketball. The original Power 5 schools had 64 teams and Notre Dame made 65. If they kept 64 teams you could have 8 regions of 8 teams. If they cut it down to 32 for football then 4 regions of 8 teams, or just do it like the NFL and have 8 regions of 4 teams. Basketball could have 64 teams and cut the tournament down to 32 teams. Or maybe have 48 teams and a play-in round for the last 16 in with 24 teams getting a bye the first round.
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Football ABSOLUTELY needs to be in a different conference from all other sports.

The asinine behavior of having softball teams fly across the country for conference games because of football....it's so messed up
 
aGDevil2k said:
Football ABSOLUTELY needs to be in a different conference from all other sports.

The asinine behavior of having softball teams fly across the country for conference games because of football....it's so messed up
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My enduring hope is that the top XX football teams can break away to create a national super conference for football and all other sports can go back to smaller, regional conferences.

The only issue that will have to be worked out is how do you deal with the wide financial gap between the haves and have nots if they're in everything-but-football conferences together and a couple of teams can outspend everyone else in their conference by 2x or more on non-football sports?
 
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