2020-21 CFB Coaching Carousel

Wow. Here I was thinking that Alabama's football politics were screwed up.

Then again, I kind of boggle at the thought of a Governor who actually cares about a G5 program in his state.

 

W.Va. Gov. is a Marshall grad, even if the Lege is full of W.Va. grads who hate them.

 

What's really disgusting is that public support for these public universities is dwindling, but the politicians continue to keep their thumb in the pie.

Pruett did have a hell of a run for the Herd, but he's 77 now.

 

Jim Justice is a billionaire and I assume a big contributor to Marshall. Also, the guy still coaches high school basketball. As if he has nothing else going on.

 

Absolutely.
I think Oklahoma boosters are getting kinda antsy.
They haven't won a natty since 2000. Riley gonna make 8 million next year, but at what point do the boys say "Uh.....Lincoln.....we can get a junior high coach from Elk City to come in and win a Big 12 and go to the Cotton Bowl with the roster you have, and he can do it for a helluva lot less than 8 million."

 

Oh but he doesn’t have that going on at the moment. He ordered the season postponed until March, right before the big NYE blowout at the Greenbrier resort, which he owns.

My God I would have sold an organ on the black market to get quotes like these when I was a preps writer.

Prep coaches angry at Justice, New Year's Eve gala video

 

Marshall University received $5 million less from the state in FY 18 than it received in FY 10. That's astonishing. Trumpist values at work.
As a % of all revenue, state support declined from 34% in 2010 to 29% in 2018. Net tuition and fees, of course, increased as % of total institutional revenue from 23% to 30%.

 

But there was enough money to subsidize the athletic department to the tune of 16 million dollars a year in 2018-2019.

College Finances - USA TODAY

 

Which programs do you think contributed the most to that deficit institutional support helped balance? Football, or something else?

 

Last year, 13 FBS coached got whacked. This year so far, the total is 10. So a bit more active than many thought.
A few ADs may be operating on the presumption that there will be full stadiums of paying customers in 2021. Unless the pace of the vaccine program increases considerably, they may be wrong on that count.

 

My guess is football but I don't know. Marshall appears to be running the minimum number of sports to stay in D-I. I don't think they are spending a lot of money on the other sports than men's basketball.

While football is surely the biggest driver of revenue it costs a lot. Marshall paid the old head coach $762,000. USA Today did not have assistant coaching salaries for the school but the website listed 10 assistants and six other staffers with titles like football operations director, player personnel directors and quality control staffers. That does not include the salaries of strength coachers, trainers, etc.

On the revenue side Marshall, as a Conference USA member, is getting a couple hundred thousand from media rights if this article is to be believed.

Conference USA hit rock bottom in 2020 - Underdog Dynasty

In 2019 the NCAA website reported Marshall averaged about 23,000 in football attendance in 2019 in a stadium that seats 38,000. When you watch a college football game attendance can seem a lot lower than what is announced. The biggest reason for that is student attendance. I don't know how much a student ticket cost in 2019. But at many schools where there are lots of empty seats a student season ticket is either free of sold at a minimal cost. The school then counts the student no-shows as part of paid attendance. But I bet revenue from the students in minimal. So Marshall is relying on a cadre of 16,00-17,000 loyal fans to support the football program.

I think virtually all Division-I football schools not in the Power Five with the exception of BYU and Notre Dame are wasting resources trying to run a complete D-I program. A school needs a large television contract to possibly make it work.