Recent content by Vespidae

The engine that drives GT is GTRI. If you want to add majors, you first need to demonstrate demand via research contracts. As I recall, the growth in research contracts is in medical research. I doubt the effect on athletics admissions is even a criteria.

I knew a student … 4-star player and a starter. Spent all his time on NIL trying to cash out while he could. Flunked out. Didn’t get drafted. No job, no degree, no prospects. Bama, it is said, has more tutors for the football team than the team has players. Athletes are tracked by geolocation...

Rumors of GT’s death are greatly exaggerated. Did Tech win the recruiting battle for Haynes King? No. We won the portal competition for him. There are plenty of overlooked players who need playing time, won’t get it, and will transfer rather than wait. GT is entering the Moneyball Era. Being...

I taught at a D3 school. Grants don’t exist there. Students take part in athletics as part of the college experience… not to get a grant. CPJ described Tech as basically a service academy. Limited curriculum, good kids, lots of discipline. It isn’t like 99% of the schools in D1. Here’s how USMA...

All depends. Gymnastics is revenue generating. So is swimming/diving. Various sports sell tickets, naming rights, and development. Know who has the best suite at BDS? Bruce Heppler. Tech itself funds nothing. The Hill provides out of state tuition waivers which is the bulk of it's investment...

As someone who actually teaches D1 athletes, I have a different experience. The areas of concern are usually football, basketball and baseball. Students from all other sports - golf, tennis, track, swimming, diving, gymnastics - are usually straight A students. And not "basketweaving" either...

I think there's a bit of a romantic view of college sports as pure, or amateur (love of the game) etc and that the move towards $$$ is recent. I assure you it isn't. I know players personally who received exams and completed term papers slid under their doors at night by the tutoring staff. It's...

Since 2014, college football has become nothing more than programming content. The bowl games (a number of them are owned outright by ESPN), the CFP (a made for tv event), Game Day (number one sports show) are all about viewership.

The GOR explicitly lists out what rights each school is granting to the Conference. They include: All rights under the US and/or foreign copyright laws All reproduction, performance, display, distribution, and other intellectual property rights The right to modify distort or alter the Works and...

More or less. But schools have evolved significantly since this was introduced. Time to update... especially D1.

Doubtful. While there are perhaps, a few thousand donors to A-T, only about 10 (yes, t-e-n) really move the needle. Even TStan, when asked, said he had no plans to increase "fund-raising" because he could simply call 10 or so donors and get what he needed. I did a study on it a few years ago and...

Athletes get a different, better product. I have a warm up and love it. Not available at retail.

Why is that important to you? It is a fact that the GOR conveys individual rights to a collective. That the ESPN -ACC agreements predate it doesn't change that.

I looked it up. It appears that Adidas themselves did not do this, but rather ... fans could create their own customized jerseys and some did using the "4" runes. Adidas submitted them to the soccer governing body and no one objected until ... it hit social media. They have since blocked the use...

Not quite. The “producers” conveyed their rights to another who would negotiate on their collective behalf. The ESPN Agreement is between the conference and ESPN. A member school can leave, but their conveyed rights remain through the term.