How Should MSU Fans Look At MSU Athletic Budget?

[msbulldog]

The SEC is the biggest arms race in American sports and I'm having trouble reconciling in my mind how I should look at MSU having the conference's lowest athletic budget, one of the most physically fit departments in the conference, and the fact that we have nowhere near the best facilities or recruiting classes.

Basically, outside of preparing for a pandemic, why are we trying to save so much money? How do we justify that?

On one hand there's being good stewards of your money and on the other hand, we are clearly not doing everything we can to win.

Are we too conservative?

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Gun I'm going to respond to this before I read the rest of the responses, because I am sure someone else will bring these points up. Because of the fiscal responsibility of our athletic department, we are better set to withstand the economic problems that this virus is putting on us. We are better off than most of the SEC schools that have smaller budgets like us. Hell, Ole Miss is handing out salary cuts to coaches and staff in their athletic dept. If you're worried about what we spend on recruiting, let me ask what in recruiting costs money? You can't pay recruits or their coaches, you can't give them gifts. You have travel and maybe airfare, but damn MSU owns a boat load of planes. The money most schools spend on recruiting is in recruiting staff (see Alabama). How many people do you need to track basically 1500 or so high school players? I might add our current staff does a helluva job. Gun, I think you're just starting a thread to get posts. Does ED pay you?

[ShotgunDawg]

Gun I'm going to respond to this before I read the rest of the responses, because I am sure someone else will bring these points up. Because of the fiscal responsibility of our athletic department, we are better set to withstand the economic problems that this virus is putting on us. We are better off than most of the SEC schools that have smaller budgets like us. Hell, Ole Miss is handing out salary cuts to coaches and staff in their athletic dept. If you're worried about what we spend on recruiting, let me ask what in recruiting costs money? You can't pay recruits or their coaches, you can't give them gifts. You have travel and maybe airfare, but damn MSU owns a boat load of planes. The money most schools spend on recruiting is in recruiting staff (see Alabama). How many people do you need to track basically 1500 or so high school players? I might add our current staff does a helluva job. Gun, I think you're just starting a thread to get posts. Does ED pay you?

So our athletic department knew about COVID before it happened?

Yes, they look good right now, but were we really saving money for a pandemic? I'm happy we're on the position we are in, but it does bring up questions about why we apparently aren't doing everything we can to win.

Again, outside of baseball, we are in the bottom tier of SEC facilities.

Do you think better facilities than our competition helps you win? I do.

Mainly, I don't want MSU to settle for "good enough". People say we've been to 10 bowl games in a row, etc but we haven't won anything. We haven't won the West and haven't won a Natty in any sport.

It's not good enough. If we're making a profit than we should be investing that into the programs and facilities. No saving for a once in a lifetime pandemic.

[ShotgunDawg]

Gun I'm going to respond to this before I read the rest of the responses, because I am sure someone else will bring these points up. Because of the fiscal responsibility of our athletic department, we are better set to withstand the economic problems that this virus is putting on us. We are better off than most of the SEC schools that have smaller budgets like us. Hell, Ole Miss is handing out salary cuts to coaches and staff in their athletic dept. If you're worried about what we spend on recruiting, let me ask what in recruiting costs money? You can't pay recruits or their coaches, you can't give them gifts. You have travel and maybe airfare, but damn MSU owns a boat load of planes. The money most schools spend on recruiting is in recruiting staff (see Alabama). How many people do you need to track basically 1500 or so high school players? I might add our current staff does a helluva job. Gun, I think you're just starting a thread to get posts. Does ED pay you?

I agree our staff does a hell of a job, but that doesn’t mean they’re above questions.

A good fan base SHOULD ask questions. That’s the impact we can have to assure ourselves of a continued successful athletic department.

Do you wish people would’ve asked LT questions?