College football 2020 offseason thread

Rapid and wide-spread testing has always been the solution to isolating the infected, and ending this thing.

If only the President were interested in such a thing ...

 

Testing and aggressive contact tracing are the Public Health 101 standard for controlling an epidemic. If only our President didn't aggressively discourage such a thing...

 

I defer to your expertise. Well explained.

 

Regardless of how easy you make it, what would compel Joe Asymptomatic to go get tested? And what if Joe tests negative on Aug. 23 and gets infected on Sept. 2? Exactly how often are asymptomatic people supposed to get tested to make sure you catch them at the EXACT time they're infected so you can isolate them . . . and how is the isolation to be enforced?

 

The funny part is that UA really envies all the NIH research money that UAB pulls in, so they pushed building big dollar research facilities. The problem is that they badly need some name researchers to sign on and lend them credibility, but they don't have any reputation to attract the sort of people they desire - or perhaps an outright marginal to bad reputation in those circles.

 

If rich people are paying for these niche programs why, for example, does the University of Arkansas Little Rock, which is a member of the Pac 12 in wrestling, have to give their athletic department a subsidy of about nine million dollars a year? Given an enrollment of about 10,000 that subsidy works out to $900 a student. Total costs are about 12 million dollars a year and revenue about three million dollars.

College Finances - USA TODAY

And about the endowment. Wikipedia says UAR has an endowment of 80 million dollars. Endowments should be drawn down at a rate of about four per cent a year, or about three million dollars. So if you assume every dollar donated to the school was because of the athletics department and every dollar of proceeds therefore should go to the athletic department you would still need a subsidy of six million dollars a year.

I assume UAR is in part a commuter school. I went to one for a while. My experience is that commuter schools draw a lot of students from households that have limited resources and are working jobs and trying to get through. And UAR is doing God's work in giving them the opportunity to get an education. I think the money that is spent on athletics could be better spent giving the students a tuition break?

 

Generally speaking, people want to be a part of something.

 

Sure, but it isn't happening. The school in question has the second-highest tuition of any public university in the state despite being a mostly-commuter school.

Athletics there, as well as other schools across the country in its peer group, are using athletics as an extension of the marketing effort.

As far as gifts go, I don't know how they break it down, but one-time gifts to build a new basketball arena, or a new baseball stadium, would generally not show up as year-to-year donations. Some accounting person can correct if that's in error. What they have done is invest heavily in nanotech research and engineering, specifically because those programs attract out-of-state and international students. International students might as well come with a sticker on their forehead that says they're worth their weight in gold.

 

I'd say that Saban at $11 million is worth every penny to the overall brand of Alabama.

If you're not from Alabama but have good test scores and love college football and a big school, take your 32+ ACT to Tuscaloosa and they'll take tuition down from $30k a year to $3k. Room/board is hideously expensive there ($14k a year) but that's still a good deal as well. Arizona is the same way. If you're a 32+ ACT, you'll get knocked down from 35k a year in out-of-state tuition to about $2,500.

Was Bert at Arkansas worth $4 million to Arkansas? No.

 

Speaking of coaches, Deion Sanders breaking into the college head coaching ranks at ... Jackson State!?
It's thinly sourced at best, but his name has been swirling as a candidate since they fired John Hendrick a few weeks ago. It didn't hurt that he brought his high school team over to Mississippi to play a game in the Jackson suburbs.

https://www.hbcusports.com/2020/09/...o-name-deion-sanders-new-head-football-coach/