Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

When the revenue sports go down, they are not going to support the cross country and tennis teams. Oh well.

 

I believe that Ohio State is a profitable football program.

 

Morgantown to Lubbock for a women's soccer game is one of the most insane things ever.

 

I hope somebody thinks about the $500k weight coach salary in all this.

 

Show me a weight coach making $500k, and that will be the first. I'd be damn surprised if any one of them made even $200k.

 

The proper terminology is strength coach. Here’s one:

Longtime Alabama strength coach Scott Cochran heading to Georgia to be an assistant coach

 

I have always maintained that the sport that could most easily be trimmed in scheduling is baseball. Is there really a need for the number of midweek games in college baseball? You could cut that total in half. While that wouldn't have a huge financial impact because these are short bus-trip games, it would help academically.

 

The MAC makes some more smart changes. I'm surprised their travel roster was so high; in the Pac-12 it's 65 for road conference games. Probably cheaper and easier for the MAC to take 76 since most teams bus.

MAC to limit football travel rosters, restrict hotel stays

 

Iowa's strength coach makes $800,000

[Chris] Doyle's $800,000 outpaces the latest numbers for Ohio State's Mickey Marotti ($735,000), Tennessee's Craig Fitzgerald ($625,000), Clemson's Joey Batson ($600,000), Alabama's Scott Cochran ($595,000) and Texas A&M's Jerry Schmidt ($575,000).

College football: Iowa strength coach to make $800,000 annual salary

 

I think a strength coach on a football team ought to be making good money.

It's all the extraneous dinky-shit assistant coaching positions ("I'm strictly a running game coordinator!!!") that need to be eliminated.

 

WVU volleyball travel schedule, 2019
at Delaware
at San Diego State
at Hawaii
at Texas Tech
at Kansas
at K State
at Morehead State
at TCU
at Baylor
at Texas
at Iowa State

Financially, that's a lot of trips.
Academically, I'm estimating they missed at least 14 days of potential classes. That number is lower if they all avoid Friday classes. Still, that's a big chunk of a semester.

 

I doubt it will happen, because the big boys have too much ego, but this needs to go back to being a regional sport. There's no Goddam reason for A&M and Missouri to be in the SEC. Colorado and Utah aren't Pacific coast schools. And yes, Pitt, Louisville and Syracuse aren't Atlantic coast schools. The alignment we had in 2002 before the first conference raid was fine.