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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“…in Duke's case, NIL for three basketball players a year is not that much of a burden……

…and that’s why they aren’t very good in football.   Next.

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Wasn’t Duke better than Northwestern last year?[/quote]

Duke is in the ACC, a weaker league than the Big 10. Their AD should not be viewed as a diversity hire.  She is very good and attracts good coaches.   Background from Notre Dame.  I would not say the same for NU's current AD. Perhaps he can grow into the job.

Football is a numbers game.  NU - by virtue of being a 1-11 team in the Big 10 - received 59 million in payouts.  They are not giving up football.

The SEC's deal going forward is sweeter than the Big 10.  Imagine you are Florida State - a school that historically runs on football.  You wake up to find that the ACC is economically mediocre and that your in-state rival Florida is going to receive in the future 40 million more each year from SEC dollars than FSU.  That puts Florida in a position where they can spend and initiate NIL deals to get the best de facto pro team they can get.   No small matter to FSU.  Of course FSU wants in the SEC but there is an over $100M buyout to the ACC to leave - and the SEC won't accept them (or Clemson) unless those issues are flattened.   How does this relate to NU?  Look at the numbers - no way NU is volunatirly not playing football or leaving the Big 10.  Look I think there's something wrong with NU's sports culture - I never experienced any form of hazing as a scholarship athlete at Duke (although there were other imperfections).  But money still talks - Fitz got fired two days after receiving a two game suspension because the realization hit that he was running a program that was never going to be sufficiently pro player in an NIL environment to be competitive.

Hiring the right football coach is a high stakes game.  Arguably of equal importance to that of a university President.  UVA has made the wrong hire.  This is not to say he isn't a good coach.  He likely is.  But his background is in getting 4 and 5 star future NFL guys to play at Clemson.  Now he has to develop two and three stars at an school which presents academic challenges for a number of players.  He won't have time or the right focus to develop these players (a better fit would be to be a NFL assistant coach), and UVa's football program will suffer.  In the short run it doesn't matter because UVa will collect ACC money, but in the long run the NCAA may consolidate into a super league and teams like UVa with a mediocre record will be left out. Heck so will Duke and NU and Stanford, with programs like UNC on the precipice (basketball doesn't take you very far).   One can only imagine the huge headache that football is to university presidents.   [b]My mentor at Duke left Duke to become President at SMU after their death penalty football scandal.  He was willing to put football in the right frame, meaning that SMU was consigned to having DIII level talent for years.  But he wanted SMU to be a university, and not a football team with a university attached.[/b]  I don't think this could be done today.  [/quote]

You know very little about SMU.[/quote]

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