Hampton looking to leave the MEAC for the CAA


Journalist said:
CAA members in Final Sports Network Top 25 Poll:

No. 8 Maine
No. 9 Towson
No. 10 Old Dominion (remember, they're leaving to move up to FBS/Conference USA)
No. 11 New Hampshire
No. 15 James Madison
No. 17 Delaware

William & Mary also received votes

So in football, Hampton could see half of its conference schedule against Top 25 teams...
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With Nova in their bball conference, they should get a good payout from the NCAA bball tourney. And they should be able to get a top notch football coach as well. But they would need to be ready to hire good assistants.
 
Tigerpride said:
With Nova in their bball conference, they should get a good payout from the NCAA bball tourney. And they should be able to get a top notch football coach as well. But they would need to be ready to hire good assistants.
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Villanova is only in the CAA in football.
 



the band fan said:
people don't realize those PWCs want to play us also to boost their numbers.....winning is one thing but alot of them on our level and the smaller D-1 level struggle to fill their stands as they have a lot of fans who associate with the big state schools instead

When I see teams bragging on 25K and that's a record....we've pulled that for decades
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:nod:
 
EB said:
:nod:
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See ULL, NWST & McNeese wanting to play S.U. to get butts in the seats.....Now here is the disparity in budgets that many of our fans don't see or understand:

Budgets

ULL 14 million (Home stadium attendance record v.s. Southern U)
NWST 10.4 million (Home stadium attendance record v.s. Southern U)
McNeese 9.5 million (Southern U did not return trip paid default clause)
S.U. 7 million
 
JROCK said:
See ULL, NWST & McNeese wanting to play S.U. to get butts in the seats.....Now here is the disparity in budgets that many of our fans don't see or understand:

Budgets

ULL 14 million (Home stadium attendance record v.s. Southern U)
NWST 10.4 million (Home stadium attendance record v.s. Southern U)
McNeese 9.5 million (Southern U did not return trip paid default clause)
S.U. 7 million
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SU budget is 8 something million. Heard our new AD say it in a interview.
 
SUjagTILLiDIE said:
SU budget is 8 something million. Heard our new AD say it in a interview.
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I will go on the numbers I saw in the USA today as opposed to hear say. The number is really 6.8 million I rounded if off. Are you implying S.U. funding is comparable to the aforementioned schools?
 
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SUjagTILLiDIE said:
Louisiana Tech had the largest loss, $9.2 million, followed by Southeastern Louisiana University with $7.7 million, Northwestern State University with $6.8 million, UL-Lafayette with $5.8 million, UL-Monroe at $5.7 million, Nicholls at $4.4 million, McNeese State at $4.23 million, Southern University at $3.5 million and Grambling with $2.9 million.

http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/2859431-123/letters-la-taxpayers-lose-in
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Those are not budgets you're looking at. Those are losses
 
JROCK said:
Then you should also know that the budget is 6.8 millions and the expenses were 7.1 million. The advocate is getting their numbers from the USA Today data.

Southern SWAC $6,799,370 (revenue/budget) $7,122,516 (expenses) $3,545,545 (loss....over budget) 52.1 (state subsidized)

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/coll...ollege-athletics-finances-database/54955804/1
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The way I read it, the $3.5 million is the amount we get from the State and Student fees for athletics. So half of our budget is dependent on student fees and state funding. So looking at those numbers we were $300,000 over budget for the year. Compare that to Florida State who was $8 million over budget. The author of that newspaper article was talking about the amount of money the state "loses" in providing funding for each of the non-LSU schools.
 
number1 said:
The way I read it, the $3.5 million is the amount we get from the State and Student fees for athletics. So half of our budget is dependent on student fees and state funding. So looking at those numbers we were $300,000 over budget for the year. Compare that to Florida State who was $8 million over budget. The author of that newspaper article was talking about the amount of money the state "loses" in providing funding for each of the non-LSU schools.
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I agree it is 300K over budget and 3.5 million state subsidy (52%). Thanks for correcting me. The point I was trying to make is our budget is not over 8 million dollars and is not comparable to the schools I listed.
 
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JROCK said:
I agree it is 300K over budget and 3.5 million state subsidy (52%). Thanks for correcting me. The point I was trying to make is our budget is not over 8 million dollars and is not comparable to the schools I listed.
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Our Current budget is over 8 million, Brousarrd told us that at qb club meeting.
 
JROCK said:
I agree it is 300K over budget and 3.5 million state subsidy (52%). Thanks for correcting me. The point I was trying to make is our budget is not over 8 million dollars and is not comparable to the schools I listed.
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Yeap, unless they have added more money to the budget for this upcoming year.
 
number1 said:
Yeap, unless they have added more money to the budget for this upcoming year.
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Looking back at the USA data again, it looks like those numbers are from FY 11 ( July 1, 2010 to June 30 2011). I am thinking that we are currently in FY 12 (July 1 2011 to June 30 2012). It is possible that FY 12 budget increased to 8 million. I don't think any money was moved to increase the numbers in the chart. Even if the budget was increase for the current fiscal year, it is still below the other schools that I listed in FY 11.
 
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SUjagTILLiDIE said:
Our Current budget is over 8 million, Brousarrd told us that at qb club meeting.
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You are probably right with the operative word being current. Those numbers in the advocate which you posted appears to be from the previous fiscal year. Further the data that I posted is also from the previous year. The point remains those schools I listed have larger budget. This impedes our ability to consistently compete when the comparative budgets are out of kilter. Sure we will potentially win every once and a while. However without equilibrium the odds are against us.

It would be interesting to see if the author of that article is blowing a lot of smoke about the 50 million dollar subsidy for all state schools. The only way to do that is have the entire state budget and see where money is going and discern how fiscally sound the state's allocation of funds are and just how much pork is in that barrel.
 
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JROCK said:
You are probably right with the operative word being current. Those numbers in the advocate which you posted appears to be from the previous fiscal year. Further the data that I posted is also from the previous year. The point remains those schools I listed have larger budget. This impedes our ability to consistently compete when the comparative budgets are out of kilter. Sure we will potentially win every once and a while. However without equilibrium the odds are against us.

It would be interesting to see if the author of that article is blowing a lot of smoke about the 50 million dollar subsidy for all state schools. The only way to do that is have the entire state budget and see where money is going and discern how fiscally sound the state's allocation of funds are and just how much pork is in that barrel.
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It wasn't a article, it was in the opinion section of the advocate.
 
SUjagTILLiDIE said:
It wasn't a article, it was in the opinion section of the advocate.
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:rolleyes:

It is an article in the opinion section. It doesn't matter where in the paper it was written. :lol: :emlaugh: Are you ashamed that Southern has a smaller budget than the schools I listed? It is what it is....
 
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