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How many lawyers do Athletic Departments have now?
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:40 am
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:40 am
With all the court cases, contracts, and ther issues around sport, does each University have an in house team or do they contract specialist attorneys to negotiate NILc coaches contracts, and injunction reading and filing?
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:45 am to makersmark1
We got tons.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 5:48 am to makersmark1
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How many lawyers do Athletic Departments have now?
That is a pesky tree, focus on the forest
MBA's and JD's have replaced AD's and Coaches in college sports.
It will not end well for the actual fans.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 6:01 am to Cheese Grits
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It will not end well for the actual fans.
These college “brands” were built over decades. In the South, college football was the central sport, and many traditions developed around the team. Fight songs, tailgating, battle cries, in a word “pageantry.”
As school kids, many of us used to have the entire numerical roster memorized with numbers, positions, and hometowns. We became devoted to our teams.
I’m don’t think the new college football with forge fans that have a deep relationship with the team. Support will ebb and flow with success on the field for most. I don’t believe these monstrous stadia will always be full for 7-3 vs 6-4 type games. Each individual regular season game “just means less” as the playoff is all anyone will pay attention to in the new CFB paradigm.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 6:08 am to makersmark1
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I’m don’t think the new college football with forge fans that have a deep relationship with the team.
The schools will not figure this out till it is too late.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:23 am to Cheese Grits
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The schools will not figure this out till it is too late.
They are too busy monetizing everything from the parking to the “Stepford” tailgate. Constantly asking for more and more money for aluminum bench seats and overpriced concessions.
Game times are decided by TV and the so-called “conference.” Fans bake or broil from 1100 to 1900 hours during early September. No cup holder. The big scoreboards become glorified ad space. Rarely are highlights of other games shown.
This post was edited on 8/21/26 at 7:24 am
Posted on 8/21/26 at 7:27 am to makersmark1
Athletic depts are huge now
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:16 am to makersmark1
If you ever caught a game at CWS / UK, they had the old grass lot that was full of folks from Eastern Kentucky. Good food and good people. Knew at least 1 old baw who fed the homeless after most had gone into see the game. The grass lot is gone, as are those old tailgate folks. UK games are the real losers.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:08 am to makersmark1
quote:Yep. That's what has been entirely lost on school admins. All but the most diehard loyalists are over this.
We became devoted to our teams.
This post was edited on 8/21/26 at 9:10 am
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:15 am to makersmark1
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They are too busy monetizing everything
They have to. Their budgets ballooned by 20-30%, and many departments were already operating at margins as it was and are still trying to play catch up.
Imagine if a ruling came out tomorrow saying that all fast food workers had to be paid $200/hr. McDonald’s might survive, but there’d be no more happy meals. That is what happened to college athletics.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 10:34 am to ukraine_rebel
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They have to.
That is the BIG lie.
If you ever want to see creative accounting ...
Organized crime
Movie business (probably TV and music too)
Drug rehabs
College sports (post 1970's)
Case in point, an SEC AD I kew well had numbers like this (allegedly)
150K to AD
150K to staff
200K to Property, Plant, Equipment
000K to marketing and fundraising (donors had deep pockets, school had short arms)
500 K total front office budget
The next AD had numbers like this (allegedly)
3.0 M to AD
1.0 M to staff
?.? M to P,P, and E (not for athletics, just for the office
?.? M to who really knows (why the mob and movies have this ability)
5.0 M total front office budget
Think about that, in 1 transition period, they did not add a single digit percentage increase, they added a ZERO. This was at least a decade or two ago so god only knows what the numbers are now. Lest you think this a single school, have know many AD's from different schools in the past. My thinking is, this is the norm, not some lone exception.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 12:19 pm to Cheese Grits
I guess to correct my statement, they had to do one of two things, make cuts in order make up the difference or they had to generate additional revenues, and obviously most are choosing the latter.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 9:45 am to makersmark1
I would guess around 6 average
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