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"Next Frontier for College Sports: Cornhole Scholarships​


Winthrop University in South Carolina lands a celebrated beanbag duo from Colorado. ‘This is history,’ says their coach, a cornhole pro.”​


"Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., recently awarded scholarships to a pair of extremely talented high school…cornhole players.

Winthrop, a Division I school which doesn’t have football, has already made a major investment in videogaming esports, where it is now a national power. Athletic director Chuck Rey talks excitedly about Winthrop’s plan to assemble a drone racing team, which he says will overlap with the school’s computer science and business programs.

“It costs universities a lot of money to be a Division I program,” Rey says. “We are almost resetting what sports can be.”

Cornhole, which has its annual collegiate championships in Myrtle Beach, S.C.—made a lot of regional sense, Rey says. “It was a natural flow, taking something that was in the area, and making something for men and women who have interest in pursuing their craft,” the A.D. says.

The two scholarships are partial, Rey says. Cornhole is not an NCAA sport—and there are no current efforts to make it one. The two recruits, Gavin Hamann and Jaxson Remmick, will enroll in the school and represent Winthrop at college tournaments and other events.

Winthrop’s even hired a coach: local cornhole professional Dusty Thompson.”

Wall St. Journal article.
 
Sanders has gone on zero of-campus recruiting trips since he was hired by Colorado. Harbough went on 145 trips for Michigan.

"That means Sanders didn't take advantage of the $200,000 annual budget he was given for private air travel for recruiting."

Colorado's Deion Sanders Has Made 0 Off-Campus CFB Recruiting Visits Since 2022 Hire
It's safe to say Colorado football coach Deion Sanders is an untraditional recruiter. So untraditional, in fact, he hasn't made a single off-campus visit…

Read in Bleacher Report: https://apple.news/A0FaGFh7HTcOXxfnm83V5xw
 
"It also calls the ACC's view that the league's grant of media rights would allow the league to own Clemson's media rights after it left the league a "nonsensical reading," "wrong" and "inconsistent with the plain language of that agreement."

Clemson asks in the suit for a declaration that the ACC would not own the rights to Clemson's games "after Clemson ceases to be a member of the ACC." Clemson also wants the ACC exit fee -- three times the ACC operating budget, an estimated $140 million -- ruled as "an unenforceable penalty in violation of public policy." (The total cost of the exit with the rights and the fee was cast as $572 million in Florida State's lawsuit.)

The lawsuit is the second one filed against the ACC in recent months, as Florida State filed in late December. The Clemson suit is significant because it indicates that the league's two clear-cut football powers -- and only College Football Playoff participants who play annually -- both want to leave the league.

It also calls the ACC's view that the league's grant of media rights would allow the league to own Clemson's media rights after it left the league a "nonsensical reading," "wrong" and "inconsistent with the plain language of that agreement."

Clemson asks in the suit for a declaration that the ACC would not own the rights to Clemson's games "after Clemson ceases to be a member of the ACC." Clemson also wants the ACC exit fee -- three times the ACC operating budget, an estimated $140 million -- ruled as "an unenforceable penalty in violation of public policy." (The total cost of the exit with the rights and the fee was cast as $572 million in Florida State's lawsuit.)

The lawsuit is the second one filed against the ACC in recent months, as Florida State filed in late December. The Clemson suit is significant because it indicates that the league's two clear-cut football powers -- and only College Football Playoff participants who play annually -- both want to leave the league.

The Big Ten's most recent available data reported $846 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending in June 2022 (the league files its tax returns in May). After reaching a seven-year media rights agreement with Fox, CBS and NBC in August 2022 that is set to bring in more than $7 billion, the league was projected to eventually distribute $80 million to $100 million per year to each of its 16 members.
The ACC's average distribution to its 14 full members increased 9.7% to $39.4 million in 2021-22, its most recent data. (Those don't include the new CFP numbers, which were noted above.) The lawsuit projects a revenue gap of $30 million per institution per year, which Clemson sums up this way, striking at the heart of the lawsuit: "As the revenue gap widens over the coming year, Clemson will fall behind its peer institutions."

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IdaGriz01 said:
All of that takes total sense to me, and I totally agree that it's about leadership (lack thereof).

But here's the problem (which I do not see discussed much): Across the board of D-I, the vast majority of the organizations involved are State-mandated and (mostly) supported institutions. How will an "NFL model" – whatever that is – play with all those legislatures and the people who vote for them? Granted, a few universities have associated themselves with "commercial" or at least outside+private interests (thru business development parks and the like). But what business model creates a football team of supposed college students who are essentially playing for a farm team for the pros? Knowing, of course, that most will never play pro ball at any level. Beats Hell out of me.
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The scenario has been moving in fits and starts to the Big Boy Semi Pro idea for at least a decade and it now seems inevitable. Given we are in the midst of March Madness I find it depressing that it will be collateral damage in the whole goat rope . The 3 weeks that captivate a large part of the general public unlike any other collegiate competition will be history. Half the viewers captivated by the David/Goliath aspect will move on and not come back. The billion in annual TV money (that pays for minor sports post season including FCS football) will surely dwindle to relative peanuts. That the NCAA will be gutted doesn't really bother me but I think the public relationship with collegiate athletics overall in it's traditional form will be as well. Still remember throwing a small football around the back yard on a sunny October day listening to Minnesota football on my transistor radio and diving in the grass pretending to reach over the goal line for the winning score in the early 60's. I guess as I age and see people pass on it makes me even more melancholy about the demise of things I felt had some importance for society.
 
Roger Federer will deliver the Dartmouth commencement speech in June. His longtime agent and business partner, Tony Godsick, is a former Dartmouth football player from the 90's (linebacker). Godsick's daughter is a senior lacrosse player at Dartmouth. Godsick's son is a tennis player at Stanford. Federer helped at a Stanford tennis practice recently. The wife/mom is Mary Jo Fernandez.

www.tennis.com

Roger Federer to deliver commencement speech at Dartmouth College | Tennis.com

This coming on the heels of the Swiss being spotted swinging the old racquet at Stanford.
www.tennis.com www.tennis.com
 
mthoopsfan said:
I wonder how much the high and rising housing prices in MT, and especially in Missoula and Bozeman, will affect recruiting of coaches? Seems like this would impact coaches, head and assistant.

nypost.com

This is how much you need to earn in every state to buy a home

Homebuyers in nearly half of the country need to earn at least six figures to be able to purchase a home.
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With what we pay the assistant coaches, it is AMAZING to me that they stick around. I know that many of them have reasons specific to them that they are able to make it work, but man, packing up my family and moving here for that amount of money with the current cost of living seems like a really wild thing to ask.
 
Imagine the athletic scholarship costs for these high-cost private schools.

"Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?​

Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.

Only a tiny fraction of college-going students will pay anything close to this anytime soon, and about 35 percent of Vanderbilt students — those who get neither need-based nor merit aid — pay the full list price.

According to the College Board, the average 2023-24 list price for tuition, fees, housing and food was $56,190 at private, nonprofit four-year schools. At four-year public colleges, in-state students saw an average $24,030 sticker price.

According to Vanderbilt, its spending per undergraduate is $119,000. “The gap between the price and cost of attendance is funded by our endowment and the generous philanthropy of donors and alumni,”

Still, over 2,000 students there who get no need-based or merit aidwill soon pay $100,000 or more. Why does Vanderbilt need all of that money?"

www.nytimes.com

Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?

Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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