(07-02-2018 09:56 AM)Fish Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 09:50 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 09:48 AM)Fish Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 09:37 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 09:15 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  Reading these discussions about how the size of our universities and strength of our state and local economies, reminds me of the old debate about how C-USA chose to expand. Many laughed and complained about C-USA selecting large universities in major media markets, but I think we are now seeing the logic behind it.

FIU, UNT, and FAU are the three largest universities in C-USA, and because of their size and locations in states with strong economies, those three, along with MT, are investing in their athletics at a higher rate then all the other programs in C-USA, with the exception of ODU. In the past 10 years (2008-2017), North Texas has raised their athletic budget by $20,000,000. FIU has raised their budget by $18 million. And, FAU and MT have raised their budgets by $15 million. No other C-USA programs are even close. I believe this growing gap could eventually create competitive problems for some of the lower funded programs in our conference.

Really? I don't buy that at all......north Texas has one good season in football and now there will be a competitive gap? WKU, Marshall, La. Tech. are not going away any time soon.....These schools still will be competitive despite any gaps between money.....Money is not be all end all, I think coaches matter more than money......

You are correct, but money certainly helps getting better coaches!

Not necessarily we are paying our current football coach almost double what Brohm made his first couple of seasons and he has done nothing so far.....We are all in still in same boat regardless of who has more money, Still any one of us will be poached by a "P5' school regardless where your budgets stands in CUSA...

One could argue if WKU had a larger budget, they would have never lost Brohm in the first place. Of course there are exceptions to everything, but typically speaking, the better performing coaches get paid more monies.

So you are saying at FIU if you had Brohm and a P5 school came along after he won 2 CUSA titles, you would be able to pay enough to keep him at FIU? I don't think it matters how much more money FIU has you would still lose him to a P5 school.....No way any of us can match a P5 school, I don't care if you are one of the top CUSA schools in terms of budget.....