NCAA 'Big 5' conference autonomy vote passes

Let them get their cut, too. I'd sense, though, that their value wouldn't be too might. Although, if they had the rights to their names and likeness and were good-looking enough, they'd be able to put out some calendars and make more than a few bucks.

 

If I'm the AD at, say, Troy, I say to Alabama, "Sorry, one or two million isn't going to cut it any more. Five sounds like a nice number."

If these people get the same response over and over again, maybe they'll rethink some of this idiocy.

 

Troy says no to 2 mil? School like New Mexico State or Southern Miss would say yes in a heartbeat.

 

New Mexico State and Southern Miss and all the others need to have the same response: Why in the hell do we need to help the Alabamas and Ohio States get richer so they can continue to screw us anytime they want?

 

In future news, New Mexico State dropped men's golf, baseball and men's tennis today, citing that it could no longer afford to pay for athletic scholarships, travel and equipment.

 

Bingo. $2 million keeps their athletic department afloat

 

Wow, NMSI had a pretty competitive baseball team and has its own golf course. Not being able to get into the MWC has really hurt the Aggies, who just have far fewer financial resources than UNM and just so isolated down there in Cruces. I don't think UNM has ever been an advocate for them getting into the MWC, either.

 

Whoops, read it too fast. But everything I wrote still applies. Not getting into MWC is killing the Aggies.

 

I did the same thing, Micropolitan Guy. I went to the NMSU website and the Las Cruces newspaper site, then I re-read the post.

However, on the NMSU site there's not a link for athletics on the front page like there is for pretty much every other college in the country. You have to first click on "other links," or something like that, and then a drop-down menu will give you athletics as an option. Makes me wonder how committed NMSU is to athletics.

 

But these people will not get the same response over and over again. There are three certainties in life, death , taxes and that someone, somewhere will take the money. If not Troy then some other school will.