The devil is always in the details and the four column listing provided by USA Today is hardly detailed enough to draw the conclusion some have that we are both flush with cash and operating at high margins. Even a cursory glance at the information leads one to that conclusion.
IU athletic department had the largest profit in the country in 2022
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If we had $34 million sitting around, how the hell did we lose the women's basketball number one assistant for what surely couldn't have been more than a couple hundred thousand? That guy was instrumental to the turnaround. I understand the lure of being a head coach, but an offer you can't refuse is an offer you can't refuse.
The offer that could not be refused was Head Coach.
WE DON’T have $34 million sitting around. JFC
We do...it is hidden under Hep's rock.
We don’t have that kind of money sitting around. The IUF has been a great financial helper for the IUAD for decades. Bill made sure of that.
The Miami job opened unexpectedly. I don't think Box was looking to leave, but when the offer came out of the blue he couldn't pass it up. At some point you have to take your shot. I hope he drains it.
Do you know what happened with Curt Miller? He did a pretty good job here before abruptly resigning and eventually winning a WNBA title.
I do not. But I'm not the one to ask. Others here are far more knowledgeable than me.
I do. Mostly. He abruptly resigned rather than being fired.
I thought there were some rumors that he was "romantically" involved with one of the players or a cheerleader.
Shame on me for spreading a rumor but that's what I recall.
Shame on me for spreading a rumor but that's what I recall.
He was alleged to have committed sexual harassment against an assistant coach. If CM was romantically involved with a player, it wouldn’t have been a women’s BB player
Miller is gay but sexual harassment can take a lot of forms.
Whatever it was there seem to not be any issues with his jobs since
OK. I stand corrected. Perhaps I heard "sexual harassment" and conflated it into "sexual relationship". It really didn't matter to me so I prpbably mis-remembered it.
If you do a little research you will find that this number was grossly inaccurate. An individual weight room has nothing to do with the recent failings of IU football. Making and retaining bad hires sure have. Nick Sheridan and Darren Hiller specifically. Both were made because of "friendship" and not what was best for the IUFB program. imo.
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$34 million in profit this year and our football team still doesn't have it's own weight room. Whatever your opinion of Tom Allen, it's inarguable that he's not given adequate resources to be competitive in the B1G. Seeing this chart just disgusts me because we all know the clowns in the athletic office are going to continue misallocating resources and then shrug off our football team getting run out of it's own stadium next year, just so long as the basketball program is doing alright, then who cares about FB.
Not the last HCing lesson Coach Allen will learn but will be the biggest. + I very much like and am enthused he has also given up running the D, in practice, Summer-Fall camps and games. Delegating allows more time to oversee assistants responsibilities progress/process and make sure pertinent details are actively being tended to. IUFB in '23' looks to have a little better talent, more experience, slightly less formidable schedule, a more + staff and with a more focused manager could be enough bump the program to bowl eligibility again. $.05 worth.
If our OC and DC is up to the job then coach Allen moving up to be HC again is a very good for the team. When he had DeBoer and Wommack to take over the coordinators job, IU had their best seasons in decades. I hope we see the same results this year.
I’ve said this previously and people here say “never will happen.”
Well….I never thought I’d see the day that USC and UCLA would be in the Big Ten or incoming freshman who haven’t played a down of football in college getting ludicrous NIL deals of $1 mil.
Throw out any of the old guidelines and structure you “think” will never die off. Anything goes……and the basketball program isn’t going to be able to be the saving grace at the 11th hour.
good point that nothing is sacred anymore, and only one thing matters.
that said, while fball is still the bigger earner, everyone discounts bball money more than they should.
I hate the divisions too. But IU was 13th in revenue. Maryland and almost Rutgers made bowl games last year. Revenue is not the issue. I’ve lost faith in Allen. Great guy but not the right guy. We will see about Dolson but I’m not feeling optimistic.
IU brought in $25.95 mil in basketball revenue last year. We trailed MSU at $26.27 mil and we were essentially even with Illinois in basketball revenue. Many of the other teams in the conference were within a couple million of each other in basketball revenue.
The bball revenue is important, but it doesn’t create the disparity that football programs do when looking at the school’s overall financial intake. The giant athletic departments are all created by football. It’s why Texas and Texas A&M are at the top nationally every year.
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