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Plutocracy
1: government by the wealthy
2: a controlling class of the wealthy

Well that seals it... The AAC ought to be glad that Boise State isn't in the conference and now needs to stay the hell away from BSU.

Boise State is going to have NCAA inspectors crawling all over every orifice looking for any and every infraction and they won't be able to schedule a P5 opponent from this moment going forward. They just covered themselves in stink.

Boise State---> Dead man walking...

By the way, Mr. Kustra, thanks for making the "P5's" case for segregation...FOR THEM...
"In the correspondence, Kustra points out the Boise's $37 million athletic budget pales in comparison to Alabama ($124 million), Illinois ($77 million), Nebraska ($83 million) and Missouri ($64 million.)

Even more dramatic: Idaho's football budget ($4 million) doesn't equal 60 percent of Nick Saban's salary. Both schools are FBS."

(05-22-2014 08:33 AM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  Well that seals it... The AAC ought to be glad that Boise State isn't in the conference and now needs to stay the hell away from BSU.

Boise State is going to have NCAA inspectors crawling all over every orifice looking for any and every infraction and they won't be able to schedule a P5 opponent from this moment going forward. They just covered themselves in stink.

Boise State---> Dead man walking...

I agree! I get it and he has ballz but man the ink isn't dry yet. I bet the FB coach is in his office saying "WTF".

I'd also say ill-advised comments...

Kustra is an Illinois politician through and through. Boise has the right man on the job if they are looking to be investigated.

See ya 'round Boise.......

12.5 million from Albertson's, and we're still waiting for the 5 they owe us?

I agree with the plutocracy piece. At least someone is said something, I loved Tulanes Scott Cowen came out blasting the BCS over a decade ago.

(05-22-2014 09:05 AM)FrancisDrake Wrote:  I agree with the plutocracy piece. At least someone is said something, I loved Tulanes Scott Cowen came out blasting the BCS over a decade ago.

That's how I feel.

So Idaho's total football budget is less than Saban's total salary. Why does that mean they can't have the opportunity to fairly compete on the field for a championship. Maybe they can build themselves up and improve their standing through hard work and smarts.

This is exactly what the P5 schools want to prevent. They're on top and they want to make sure it stays that way forever.

I'm not asking them to redistribute their money. Let everyone make all they can, with just two on-field stipulations:

1. Expand the playoff so that a playoff birth can be earned on the field by any D1 program via winning their conference championship.

2. All D1 OOC scheduling contracts are 1-for-1. Period.

The P5 unwillingness to accept these to things is pure unadulterated greed.

Boise is so dead.

He's right, but not savy.

Kustra still has to be pissed that they got a "Lack of Institutional Control" finding from the NCAA essentially because of recruits sleeping on existing players couches....but UNC doesn't get it for rampant academic fraud leading to inflated APR, Grad Rates, and playing ineligible players.

How things have turned upside down when Boise State's President has to be the voice for "doing things the right way"...

Where's that in Dodd's article?

Boise, the face of the Mountain West Conference, is this a conference BYU will want to be associated with?

Its been a bad couple of weeks in the Rockies. First BYU got cuckolded by the ACC/SEC, then BYU got investigated for improper benefits, now this of Boise.....

(05-22-2014 09:05 AM)Bambu Wrote:  12.5 million from Albertson's, and we're still waiting for the 5 they owe us?

You'll never see all of it.

You guys are wussies. In essence most of you are saying the Boise's president is correct in his remarks but wrong for speaking out??? It like saying you know discrimination is wrong but you shouldn't speak out for fear of repurcussion.

I had this on the realignment thread but thought it should be added here as well:

My question is what about the schools in the so-called G5 that are willing to make the necessary changes/investments in order to continue to compete with the P5 conferences?

I think there are 12-14 (maybe even more?) quality academic institutions/athletic programs that will absolutely agree with the new rule proposals and even to a possible athletic budget minimum mandate for inclusion:

These are the most recent total revenues per team on USA Today. To give you some context, the revenue for a middling P5 team like WAKE FOREST is $48,830,266.

American Athletic Conference

01.) University of Connecticut - $63,374,981
02.) Southern Methodist University - $52,029,002
03.) University of South Florida - $45,102,784
04.) University of Cincinnati - $45,065,244
05.) University of Memphis - $43,148,158
06.) University of Central Florida - $41,957,141
07.) Temple University - $41,558,322
08.) University of Houston - $35,514,862
09.) East Carolina University - $35,459,448
10.) University of Tulsa - $32,541,245
11.) Tulane University - $29,441,104


Mountain West Conference

01.) San Diego State University - $42,380,968
02.) University of Hawaii at Manoa - $33,971,200
03.) Boise State University - $33,219,370
04.) Colorado State University-Fort Collins - $32,535,454
05.) University of Nevada-Las Vegas - $32,288,243
06.) University of New Mexico - $32,146,734
07.) California State University-Fresno - $32,016,817
08.) University of Wyoming - $29,731,941
09.) San Jose State University - $25,854,038
10.) University of Nevada-Reno - $25,404,564
11.) Utah State University - $24,446,189

Indy: BYU - $54,644,578

Are you going to tell me that the top 12-16 teams here cannot compete with a P5 conference in football & basketball?

Wow. That email took some cojones. Kustra's balls are so big that he probably carries them behind him in a little red wagon.

I agree with everything he is saying. It is about time someone took a stand.

That said, he talks about money... speaking of money, Mr. Kustra, the AAC still wants the 5M that you owe us.