(07-02-2020 03:42 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(06-28-2020 06:02 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-28-2020 09:57 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(06-28-2020 09:31 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-28-2020 03:26 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  Since an athletic department is a "not for profit" organization, one with big revenues has a strong incentive to find ways to spend money on "costs" that benefit the organization, to reduce the money wasted by handing it back to the University.

That kind of structure is tail wagging the dog, as "the university" should have first and last say about how athletic revenues are spent, including how much is transferred out of athletics, not the athletic department.

Yes "should do" and "do" are often quite wide apart when it comes to how organizations behave in the real world.

This is one of the arguments for splitting off the big money sports as for-profit enterprises that pay a franchise fee to the University that they use for branding purposes, as well as tuition for the classes that their athletes elect to take from their University brand partner ... they would likely pay substantially more to the Universities in franchise fees as a cost of doing business than they pay in "operating surpluses" as notionally not for profit enterprises.

http://www.susla.edu/news/susla-partners...ll-program

Wow! Great find!

No one should be shocked if this is the future of college sports.

The Southern Shreveport Jags website says:

"The Southern Shreveport Jags will attend class on the campus of Southern University Shreveport (SUSLA)."

Previously, this squad was affiliated with "Texas A&T", a school whose existence i haven't been able to verify. I think the football team created this moniker so as to provide a facade of being the team of an actual college. It seems to be just a traveling football caravan of some sort that has, for now, settled in the bosom of SU-Shreveport (an actual school, btw).