HC Jerod Haase podcast from The Zone this AM
- Ah, the "we need to invest more" argument. Ok, let's assume there was no black hole named "football" to suck funds away. Of course, that changes our conference and, so, media deals and such. If you do the math, basketball actually ends up with less revenue in a world without football. Which brings me to my next point. CUSA revenue should equal a CUSA budget...and it turns out, in our case, it does. Our budget has actually been just above average in the conference. If you want us to spend ACC or SEC money on our programs, then you need to arrange for us to snag an invite to those conferences. Otherwise, your argument is only valid if we had been taking in CUSA revenues but operating on Sunbelt expenses...not at all the case.
- Football not being successful is exactly what's holding us back. If we strung 3 or 4 seasons of 9+ wins together, we would be almost guaranteed an invite to a Cartel conference. All of this is true...in EA Sports' NCAA Football franchise. Why is it true in that world? Because it's the way fans think it should work, and fans play video games. Or do you really think Southern Miss had an invite virtually in hand (to what...we'll get there) but a poorly timed 0-12 season caused it to be ripped up? Does anyone really believe that? REALLY?!?
- But let's assume that's true. Then if football had its **** together we could be preparing to follow Memphis and add Louisville, Pitt, Syracuse, UCONN, Cincy, et. al. to our yearly conference schedule! Oh, wait...that's not what Memphis is getting. Well, we're still getting jobbed of the chance to spend multiple millions of $$ to really not change anything at all. If we aren't in the Cartel, it really makes no difference as long as we have similar revenues and budgets...as the "A12" (hypothetically), MWC, and CUSA will.
- Without football, let's assume we could have positioned ourselves into the geographically closest basketball conference of note, the A10 (or Colonial...name any conference really as it makes no difference because...). We could be as lucky and stable, counting our blessings, as other southern, non-football schools like...well, I'm trying to think of a successful, southern, non-football school that isn't scrambling to do now what Gene Bartow did in 1989. I'm sure I'll think of one, so just consider that point made, if you will.
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