Does the BOT have a football advocate now that Berghoff is retiring ? Someone that can put a size 13 square toe up some AD folks’ backsides ?
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I fear the same thing. What a nightmare if Purdue sinks back to the Cordova days where football was an afterthought.
It is an afterthought. This group is very business savvy and will continue to operate our athletic department as a self-sufficient business enterprise. With additional revenue coming in I fully expect that money will stay in the athletic department unlike what Cordova did and use it on unrelated campus facilities. We have made significant investments in our athletics since Cordova left and I expect our trustees saw the benefits our basketball program have brought us.
My great uncle used to be on the BOT. Dewitt Buchanan. I know you people don’t believe a word I say. Look it up. He owned coal mines in Southern Illinois. His area of interest was in engineering. He could care less about football or our athletic department. When he was on the BOT, our engineering program was ranked #1 in the world and Agasi was our football coach. I suspect his replacement shared his opinions! face it. Those of you who care about football are in the vast minority of Purdue alumni. Based on the current election results, people care a lot more about the price of their hot dogs and beer than college football teams.
I don’t doubt he was. But there was no money in the 70s. A lot has changed. And it’s not the vast majority of alum. We sell about 400,000 football tix a year and have 600,000 alumni. We has 425,000 TVs on for the Oregon state and is bet many were Purdue alum.
I want two things
1. Athletics to run autonomously. No money from the academics, and athletics money stays with athletics.
2. Run it like a $160m business. That’s my estimate for revenue we should be getting next year based on the reports of new tv revenue and assumption the alliance money will now be going directly to Purdue since they can pay out $20m directly. I don’t know how we did in 2023-2024 but the prior year we made a big enough surplus we were able to replenish our cash and pay off losses from pandemic. Our revenue that year was $125m. I expect it was singnifcsnly higher with baskebtall doing so well and some other bumps. Our expenses can go up $10m+/- after full payment of NIL so they need to see where the ROI is which I expect will be new coaching staff. I don’t think it’s jn facilities now as we have done a good job of keeping up.
Somebody please let Woleblab know that things may have changed a bit in the 50 years since Agase was here…
I wonder why Wole hates Purdue so much if his great uncle was trustee? Dewitt Buchanan must roll around in his grave every time Wolegib posts.
Wole had had “old man screaming at clouds” vibes for 8-10 years now.
Woleblab might be my favorite nickname for him tho
