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Millionaire ain’t what it used to be either. And probably big spending/donation difference between “millionaire by 35” and “millionaire at retirement.”

This is a very good point. The marginal value of “no degree -> any degree” is pretty obvious in many situations and may appear much higher than the marginal value of “any degree -> gt degree.” If you’ve had two goals, play football and get a degree, being told you’re a fool if you don’t want to...

That’s like an increase of infinity if I’m remembering my math right. Basically a done deal then.

It's clearly a professional sport from the perspective of the coaches and administration who have it as a primary and often extremely-lucrative career. From the summary in the article, that seems to be at the heart of Kavanaugh's position - how do you justify that some of the people are...

I think Vespidae is talking about game attendance. I looked a bit more, though didn't try to fully count "all P5 city schools" vs "all P5 college town schools" and there's usually at least one or two city schools in the top 10 for recruiting (UT and USC most frequently recently) which doesn't...

Liberty probably does well for themselves recruiting among the not-insignificant intersection of "high school athletes in the south" and "raised in deeply religious Christian families." God is probably a better hook than Calculus, unfortunately for GT... ;)

What are the odds the people someone already has working for them are the best possible people for that job, if the current budget is on the small side? What are the odds that if the head guy had 2, 3, or more times as much money to play with, he couldn't tap his network and pull some...

Without really rigoursly inspecting the number of schools in P5 in cities vs number of schools in P5 in college towns, which I'm too lazy to do myself right now, I don't know how skewed the ratio is of contenders in cities vs college towns. USC, Miami, UCLA, Texas have all done well for...

Growing up in the sort of elementary->high schools that sent a lot of people to Liberty and similar places... their recent football fascination is deeply strange to me.

You can say "who cares what people think" for an offense since there's a scoreboard - branding and marketing, on the other hand, is qualitative and much more subjective. If it's not winning people over, it's not doing its job. Personally, though, I'm in the camp that I like the ATL branding. I...

I started at Tech at the same time as Gailey. I would LOVE to see a passing-oriented team for a change. Godsey would seem to be an obvious choice coming from the pre-Gailey era, and his name keeps coming up, but I don't see the track record to make him be on that list outside of that...

Shoot, I remember complaining under Gailey about (a) not throwing to the TE and (b) not covering the other team's TE ("oh, wow, you're allowed to throw to them!?!")

All I know is that any time you have a group that big, if only one person is upset with the boss, I think you’re doing great.

Start a med school too and get some lawyer and doctor donor money as a bonus...

I'm a big fan of the development in Atlanta over the last 20 years but I also live a solid 2000+ miles due west so I don't expect to have the same tastes as a lot of more suburban or rural folks on that. :) If not for the residential construction, though, it would be (even much more) crazy...

I don’t think the value of incentive-based comp are nearly as much “if you do well we’ll have the revenue to pay it” as “if you do poorly that million bucks will be useful to buy out you and/or pay the buyout of the next guy”

That’s not unique to Key, though. Maybe not true of Fritz from a “maybe he’d just retire vs leaving” thing, but sorta still the same thing. But if Key does well enough to get poached in 4 years then our financials should be improved too, so we’ll be in a better position still. Can’t let the...

Yeah, there's no zero-downside-risk scenario. But there's a potentially ugly scenario like that for Fritz too: * likely more transfers, possibly offsetting any presumed upside in coaching skills * a probably-larger chunk of the fanbase (based on reactions here to this announcement and the...

We aren’t comparing a guaranteed home run candidate here - If Fritz is probably 10% better, say, but at the cost of 20% more guaranteed dollars… that marginal dollar commitment may be a bigger risk in the short term than going for Key. We can’t afford to ignore downside risk like with Collins...

I don’t understand “I’m out because we can’t afford it right now.” Twenty years of bad spending and leadership dug a hole. Even if they’d scrounged up the money from some donors, a Hail Mary would’ve been expensive and could leave the AA in an even worse spot. Starting a bottom up rebuild by...