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It was no coincidence that Mike Slive was much more successful in the multimillion dollar SEC than he was in the multithousand dollar C-USA. Money helps to solve a lot of problems when you have a conference whose median program is able to spend over $35,000 annually per athlete than the median program in the #2 conference (per Delta Cost Project figures). Our own state's P5 teams last figures were about $200,000 annually per athlete with 2/3 of the money going to football expenses.

& yet we ignore the damage that Slive did to college athletics in the process because he was over the high & mighty SEC and was separating them out from the other conferences.

(05-28-2018 08:02 AM)the_blazerman Wrote:  & yet we ignore the damage that Slive did to college athletics in the process because he was over the high & mighty SEC and was separating them out from the other conferences.

Holding Slive personally responsible for the system he moved into is like blaming Nick Saban for the system that pays FB coaches about $7 million per year. Both simply benefit from the system they inherited and were successful at improving it.
It is the SYSTEM that enabled Mike Slive to pick up where Roy Kramer left off just as he in turn inherited advantages from his predecessor. As long as the present caste system continues as is, the top P5 programs will flourish and many / most G5 programs will continue to struggle financially.