My bad breh I was giving you credit for presenting the coli with a logical argument based on more than "ifs" and hopes and prayers. Silly me I won't make that mistake again.
With all due respect "WINNING=MONEY and BLACK PLAYERS=WINNING" isn't a plan it's a slogan for a low budget city council seat. You're talking about others not getting basic and factual stuff but you refuse to acknowledge the huge role money plays in building an athletic program. Money for facilities, money for coaches, money for recruiting budgets, etc.
So you posted about FAMU's basketball gym. According to wiki it cost about $40 mil to construct. According to this page the facility was paid for by PECO funds:
Alfred Lawson Jr. Multipurpose Center - Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University 2014
So my question to you is are YOU sure winning paid for that arena? Do you have a link stating how much of that $40 mil came from private donors? Lemme help you out a bit too. See UofH is going to see a "boatload" of NCAA tourney $ thanks to UCONN's title along with Louisville, Memphis, and Cincy's appearances. That "boatload" of money is a boatload more than what FAMU gets for making the first round. That "boatload" of money will make up less than 1/10 of UofH's athletic budget (real talk I'm lowballing it as I'm confident it's less than that). For the record UofH has the AAC's smallest athletic budget. If you think FAMU winning the MEAC made anything other than a dent in the cost of that gym...well I'ma need for you to link that breh.
Hold on big dog lemme stop you here too. This is a lie. The biggest conference invite Boise was invited to was the old Big East (now AAC). They were invited at the same time as us so I'm WELL aware of their story and their struggles. They don't have anywhere near the academics to get into a power 5 conference and they had to withdraw from the AAC along with SDSU because neither could afford to travel to the different schools in the AAC. It doesn't matter how much Boise wins because there are roadblocks in place to prevent them from moving up. But winning=money though right? Along those same lines I saw a different poster say Morgan St. passed on the A-10 for basketball. Aside from finding no evidence of even a rumor after a quick internet search the logistics of such a move doesn't make sense. Football is the only sport in which a conference would accept such a deal and it would be for a powerhouse whose name would raise the profile of the conference (like Notre Dame or BYU with certain conferences).
Now like I said originally I'm not posting to shyt on your opinions. I want to discuss actual plans not this winning=money bullshyt. If you go to a recruit and their parents with that you'll get laughed at in the face, sign nobody worth a damn, and quickly develop the reputation as the local "ain't shyt" coach/program/school. If you fail to acknowledge this than this is a pointless discussion because it shows you have zero knowledge of recruiting works. Now can we at least agree that basketball is the easier sport to make this come up in?
If so than what plan would you suggest? Contrary to what has been stated in this thread everything doesn't start with getting several 5 stars and making a run or two. It starts with a serious big donor or groups of donors. Someone needs to be willing to fork up money for a top flight head coach. That head coach will have to make just as much of a sacrifice as the kids in this situation btw. The lowest I could realistically see a big name guy with enough sway to even think about calling a 5 star is about $1 mil per. Big name coach is gonna want some real go getter assistants too that will help him recruit. Gonna have to fork up at least another half mil per combined for them. Since the school has moved up to 5 stars the recruiting budget will have to swell up like Sherman Klump. Big money nikka is gonna have to pay for all of those private jet flights across country, pay for official visits, and all sorts of other silly shyt that kids like that y'all nikkas in here aren't thinking about. Of course the kids themselves will want to get paid and sheeeeeiiit to get a 5 star to a school with no television contract, shyt facilities (see in this scenario I'm doing you a favor in omitting these expenses after the FAMU flub earlier), and poor competition. I know Ndubi Ebi got 300k to go Arizona. Wonder what it's gonna take to get a blue chip to Jackson St. I say all of that to repeat that you can't put the cart before the horse. You don't get recruits and then everything falls into place, it's the other way around.
To you credit though, you seem to recognize that this is a long term fix. I'm seeing other posters suggest quick fixes and that's just stupid. Nikkas talking about sign a fab 5 and get a big tv contract within a year or two.
CUSA and MWC make a little over $1 a year wtf do some of y'all think a SWAC/MEAC deal is gonna get? Anyone that thinks even 1 hbcu that signs 3+ 5 stars a year and is a perennial top 25 team can propel THE ENTIRE conference to a large media deal is so ignorant of the subject it doesn't make sense. Additionally tv deals are generally around 12-13 years long. ESPN, NBC, CBS, FOX are not going to pump in tons of money for that length of time without a guarantee that it'll be worth it for them. They look at tv markets and past tv ratings to get those valuations not the caliber of prospects these schools are signing. Beyond that basketball deals are seperate from football deals. Basketball deals are chump change. The $1 mil per CUSA level teams is for football breh.
Considering alot of athletes are c00ns......
