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Stanford has a concourse with open sight lines where you can do a full lap around the stadium. It’s neat. Is that where I’d spend a few hundred million to improve the GT game day experience? Definitely not. It didn’t make any of the 7 not-really-Stanford-fans-but-living-in-the-bay-area that I...

I don’t think the NFL is going to vacate spots, they just will have less overlapping games on Sunday afternoons.

You can use the area outside the stadium for family events and hangouts and all - and they've already started doing this. But in the stadium? Who are the people who want to spend $100+ on tickets for their friends/family to stand around in a "communal area" and not watch the game from their...

Obviously stadium owners/teams want things that bring in additional revenue but who’s really not going to a game because there aren’t enough super expensive food options? Fans want bathrooms, roomy seats, suites if they got $$$, good parking… where on that list does “nice concourses to stand in...

Harvard is a hedge fund that has a school attached for PR. UGA is a football team that has a school attached for PR. Harvard might be worse? 🤔😉

GTAA had operating expenses of ~75M in 2015 and operating revenue of ~66M - doing math based on some quotes from https://www.fitchratings.com/research/us-public-finance/fitch-affirms-georgia-tech-athletic-association-rev-bonds-at-a-outlook-stable-07-01-2016#solicitation-status ("Available...

The Boise bowl was fun but the 2004 team also destroyed and dropped 50 on Syracuse. Fun, but also a bit of “what could have been” for 04/05 - those teams had a high ceiling but never quite did it consistently.

I remember Morrow's release as pretty uniquely lightning-fast. He also had a significantly higher three point shooting percentage. Elite-level, to use a favorite phrase around here. Not a primary driver of offense, but someone who'd basically be impossible to upgrade in the role he played (which...

The NFL one is interesting since it comes from the league vs the CBA. So it’s a bit different from some other issues with CBAs which become “current player vs future player.” Because of that i wonder if it might meet a different fate in today’s evironment if another challenge arose. But I...

Most of the players on P5 rosters aren’t going to make the NFL and many of the ones who will won’t make “never work again” money unless they’re extremely frugal. I don’t see significant motivation to get rid of the student part on either side. The admins certainly shouldn’t be optimistic about...

Not a lot of reason to think they’d not have to be students AFAICT. The schools/teams are VERY aware of the PR advantages the student part gives them. The vast majority of the players will be making small amounts with no further pro prospects so I can’t see a huge push coming from that side...

Yep, basically. Bummer on the paywall, I didn’t hit one, maybe random. It’s several steps away and would require a few things that all seem unlikely: collective bargaining with players on the part of the NCAA or NCAA replacement; a legitimate interest in parity; and a appetite to enforce it...

If you report huge unspent windfalls your donors might not want to give you as much going forward! ;)

The longer article (https://fortune.com/2024/05/20/wnba-las-vegas-aces-aja-wilson-jackie-young-caitlin-clark-basketball-pay-gap/) gives more details of the restrictions and it seems even more similar to the college sports issues: The idea of the NCAA being competent and fair at judging and...

Ohh, we made it to the insults part of the show! My favorite! Me: "there’s some precedence for a salary cap putting certain restrictions on NIL at least around who can facilitate it" You: "I do [not?] think you even know what you are trying to say"..."The restrictions are on the school's...

If all that research was done in an environment where the researchers didn’t have to worry about teaching 19 year olds, would it be harmed? If the 19 year olds were taught by people who weren’t distracted chasing grants or doing the hard work for their grad advisors, would those students be...