Ever since Cinci joined the Big East, they have been trying to play catch-up in terms of facilities and bringing in money. Really, for most of their time in the Big East they have been in the red. Now, they want their cut from the extra money the Big East has to deal with their issues.
“We had some conversations about it yesterday,” said UC athletic director Whit Babcock. “Hopefully we’ll know by the end of the calendar year. Not all of those payments are in lump sums. Some of them are a five-year payment. There’s also entrance fees, which for Houston, SMU and those schools is $2.5 million to come in to the league — $500,000 for five years. So we’ve got entrance fees. We’ve got exit fees. I hate to see those schools go, but we’ve got a new successful league and I’ll be happy to take the funding.”
Babcock said the school is continuing to move forward on plans and funding for the renovation of Fifth Third Arena and Nippert Stadium.
The Big East, of course is saying, “Whoah. Slow down with all this money talk. We don’t really have that much… Or a plan.”
“One of the misconceptions is that we have this pile of money sitting in a bank,” Carparelli said. “A lot of those payments are staggered over a period of years, so it’s not at our disposal just yet. In addition, we’ve incurred a lot of expenses throughout this process: legal expenses, consultants. It’s money well spent. We don’t know what all those expenses are just yet. So the prudent thing to do is to figure out what our expenses are, use that money to pay them and then divide up the remaining amount among the ongoing members.”
That means the five remaining Big East football schools (Cincinnati, UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, USF) and the eight remaining non-football schools will receive the money. Carparelli said they have not determined how the money would be divided between the football and non-football schools.
That should be a fun discussion between the football and basketball schools.
h2p
if you count commits they have lost 10 i think that is the total so far.
Looks like some of those nitters are having second thoughts on all their pledges to stay. Had there been more time to make a decision I think we easily could have seen a mass exodus.
How long do you think they can hold onto the QB Hatterberg?? Sooner or later he’s going to realize that he’s not going to have much talent there to work with and a QB has to have talent around him to shine – OL, RB, and WR’s.
Most of the recuits who have sworn in have been exposed to this their entire life, and it’s been their dream for a long time. It’s possible that a few of them may change their mind come LOI time but no guarantee.
Chas can relate to this as OSU has this stronghold thru much of Ohio.
But penn state has given them till aug 7 they said you are in or you are out we dont want any fence sitters.
I wonder if puting it that way is ok or could they be in trouble with the NCAA for saying that.
Is the Aug. 27 date the deadline for players to transfer and still play this season? I was under the impression that players had a full year to decide whether to transfer, but once this season started, they would not be able to play for their new school until next fall. In other words, a player could transfer in October, and would be eligible next year (but couldn’t play the rest of this year), whereas normally they would have to sit out next year.
but the strangth coach was quoted as saying and i dont think he would say this on his own bye aug 7 you are in our you are out we dont want any fence sitters that must be when there camp starts.
but the NCAA has said it is bye aug 27 i wonder if that statement counts as interference and breaks a NCAA ruleing all ready.
the total is now 11 if count the commits that
decommitrd or it could be 12 it is geting hard to
keep up.
I’m guessing the NCAA doesn’t do anything about the coaches saying they want commitments by Aug. 7, but if they actually try to stop someone from transferring, or try to keep other schools from contacting players, that would be a different story.
the outhers are commits or this years freshmen or back ups but it all hurts them.
Funny, I can almost hear all of the PSU faithful crowing about how they didn’t want any of the players that transferred anyhow.
They pull their heads out of the sand only long enough to take another generous sip of the koolaid.
But fall camp is almost here and the football season is less than a month away. Bettere things to obsess over than the clueless nits.
the pot.
I know there is a long way to go with recruiting
but we have only 3 players that a high major
school like ohio state or usc would want the
rest of are class belongs in the mac with schools
like toledo or miami of ohio.
so if coach does not do better before LOI day we will have the worst recruiting class in 10 years
I know there is still time but it is not looking good i am not saying he is a bad coach but next year he will need to hire some ace recruiters to help him or soon he wont have shit to coach.
I am underwhelmed.
If it were not for Riley…
the pot dont you think.
and steve1 unless you have drank the warm milk as you say they must see it or may be they are blinded bye the light that was a song i think.
tomorrow we must stir the pot it has been way to bland on here lately.
no push no life .
IT’S TINO TIME!!!!
This came to a boil after Pitt’s opening season win over YSU 38-3, when Stull was roundly booed. Despite this, Wanny stayed with Stull in lieu of Sal’s son (imagine that!) .. and Pitt eventually got their 1st double digit win season since 81.
Lesson to be learned!
