I hope that those who are saying run to the MWC are ready to increase their Ahearn Donations dramatically. Because that's what it's going to take to overcome the $4 to $7 million dollar hit that K-State will take based on TV revenue, non automatic BCS bid for the conference and bad bowl tie-ins.
Based on todays' numbers that's a 10% to 20% drop in K-State's athletic budget.
Goodbye Frank . . . hello SLTH, kiss any chance of landing Gary Patterson or any coach like him goodbye.
i'm not increasing crap.
those of you who have been chugging the koolaid need to realize that we've been midmajor since before we joined the b12. our teams have been acting like it for the past 20+ years, now it's time that our fans started to.
Well K-State may have been acting like a mid major from a dumbass management perspective, but K-State outspends most mid majors by $10 to $15 million dollars a year on athletics and in most cases less than 50% of that spending gap comes from bowl revenue/tv revenue. The majority of that gap is generated by ticket sales and contributions. Setting some the outliers aside, if K-State is back up in the $11 to $12 million dollar per year contribution range, that is more than many major conference schools get per year in contributions and most mid majors are 1/3 of that at best. The only "mid major" that is up with K-State on expenditures that I've seen is TCU. So yeah, I completely agree that from a management perspective K-State has been extremely amateurish, but I am not with you on the rest.
I'm saying that as we officially assume the role of a mid major, our contributions should do the same.
Our university and athletic dept management has been mid major.
Our teams, for the most part, have been mid major (sometimes, at best).
The only puzzle piece that hasn't been mid major is our fanbase -> we've convinced ourselves that we belong with the big boys so we support our team/university as best we can, hence the donations/contribution levels that you pointed out.
