Public colleges athletic boosters
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Lol, #6: Oklahoma State: $670 million. All that money and they sure don't show it. Also #13 Virginia: $516 million. What are these schools doing with all this money? #73 Marshall: $68 million. Beat Notre Dame on the road last year.
Wins like Marshall over Notre Dame and many other such upsets by other teams though the years are the very best thing about college football. Yet there are moves afoot to reduce the highest level of college football to around 48 teams. The future: Saturdays = NFL Junior. Sundays = the actual NFL. This is what's coming. BORING!
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This list isn't really surprising other than the outliers (overachievers and underachievers)... If you told me Marshall was #73 out of 130 FBS schools, I'd have said "Eh, that sounds about right."
Outliers -
Oklahoma State -- $670 million (thanks Mr. Pickens) - Mediocre at both major sports
Texas AM -- $849 million -- Mediocre at both major sports
Virginia -- $516 million -- Good basketball, bad football
Iowa -- $477 million -- Mediocre at both major sports
South Carolina -- $466 million -- pathetic in both major sports
Outliers in a good way -
Cincinnati -- $115 million -- Recent football playoffs, solid basketball team
Houston -- $91 million -- Ranked football team, top 10 basketball team
Coastal Carolina -- $21 million -- Good football, bad basketball
Outliers -
Oklahoma State -- $670 million (thanks Mr. Pickens) - Mediocre at both major sports
Texas AM -- $849 million -- Mediocre at both major sports
Virginia -- $516 million -- Good basketball, bad football
Iowa -- $477 million -- Mediocre at both major sports
South Carolina -- $466 million -- pathetic in both major sports
Outliers in a good way -
Cincinnati -- $115 million -- Recent football playoffs, solid basketball team
Houston -- $91 million -- Ranked football team, top 10 basketball team
Coastal Carolina -- $21 million -- Good football, bad basketball
Shows you what markets mean in the G5, which is there is absolutely no correlation.
How does UTSA only have $32 million? Nobody cares.
How does UTSA only have $32 million? Nobody cares.
You’re both crazy. They’ve finished in the top 25 final poll 10 out of the last 15 years. Compare that to Florida who is above them and wasn’t called out. Or Texas who is above them and wasn’t called out. Or Georgia who has the same number of top 25 finishes over the past 15 years.
In fact, of the schools above them, only Oregon has more top 25 finishes over the past 15 years, and that is only by one year.
Sure, there is a difference between finishing #1 compared to #12, but considering their consistency finishing in the top 25, including multiple top 10 finishes, they are far from mediocre or at fault for not showing it.
1) The chart, and thus topic, is athletic department donations from 2005 - 2022.
2) Multiple people have made comments about the success, or lack thereof, of teams with some of the highest donations during those years. Oklahoma State was repeatedly criticized based on this.
3) "All-time top 20 winning percentages" has absolutely no relevance to the original post nor what is being discussed/debated.
4) Oklahoma State is in the top 10 in the country over the past 10 seasons in wins.
5) Oklahoma State has as many or more ranked seasons as any team ahead of them except for one.
6) Of the five teams ahead of them on that list, Oklahoma State has the same or higher winning percentage than three of the five.
In other words, saying that Oklahoma State is "mediocre" in football or that they haven't shown results from those donations is simply false.
Oklahoma State had one BCS bowl appearance and has zero playoff appearances. They are, and have been, a NPC in college football. They always play way down in the non conference schedule, which starts them 4-0 every year (except when they lose to CMU) and then get 4 cupcakes in the Big 12. Getting 10 wins is a matter of going 2-2 in their 4 tough games. During the time period being discussed they a 3-14 against Oklahoma.
Maybe I’m wrong. Fill me in on those tough games they play every year other than Oklahoma? Texas has been down, who do they play OOC to show they are more than just a 3rd or 4th place team in what has been the 4th best conference?
Maybe I’m wrong. Fill me in on those tough games they play every year other than Oklahoma? Texas has been down, who do they play OOC to show they are more than just a 3rd or 4th place team in what has been the 4th best conference?
You realize all of those things are taken into consideration when polls are done, right? Yet, even with pollsters recognizing SOS, Oklahoma State still has finished in the top 25 10 of the previous 15 years (which is as many times or more as all of the teams ahead of them on this list except for Oregon). They have played between 4 - 6 ranked teams each year of the past dozen years. Sorry, but your claim that they play a weak schedule is even worse than your initial argument that had no relevance to this thread.
Want more? Out of the past 15 years, OSU has had a top 25 SOS 13 of those years, many of which have been top 10 schedules.
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