How Should MSU Fans Look At MSU Athletic Budget?

[Ezsoil]

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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The next six months are critical for the survival of sports as we know it...whether or not we are willing to admit it...life as we have known it will be forever changed...governors and mayors now have the authority to dictate what activities we can Or can't attend (including church) all in the name of "public safety". The lost revenue from this panic will be devastating for many of the schools outside the the power 5. Professional sports are on a suicidal spiral with this BLM and China love..I doubt the WNBA will survive.

So I'd say it's smart to be fiscally responsible as it may determine whether or not we will be one of the viable athletic programs going forward.

[Todd4State]

The next six months are critical for the survival of sports as we know it...whether or not we are willing to admit it...life as we have known it will be forever changed...governors and mayors now have the authority to dictate what activities we can Or can't attend (including church) all in the name of "public safety". The lost revenue from this panic will be devastating for many of the schools outside the the power 5. Professional sports are on a suicidal spiral with this BLM and China love..I doubt the WNBA will survive.

So I'd say it's smart to be fiscally responsible as it may determine whether or not we will be one of the viable athletic programs going forward.

I agree that we should re-assess where our athletic department is financially after this COVID crisis is over. That's just common sense. The good news is after that is over we'll probably have enough money to do some really good things.

It does seem like our athletic department is always so proud of what they saved- it's very LT-ish. I wish there was more thinking about what we CAN do and not as much what we can't do. But that does need to happen after this pandemic is over and things settle down.

[Ezsoil]

I agree that we should re-assess where our athletic department is financially after this COVID crisis is over. That's just common sense. The good news is after that is over we'll probably have enough money to do some really good things.

It does seem like our athletic department is always so proud of what they saved- it's very LT-ish. I wish there was more thinking about what we CAN do and not as much what we can't do. But that does need to happen after this pandemic is over and things settle down.

I just hate to see what the permanent repercussions are going to be....how much of the classroom time will forever be transferred to the online world? what will happen to attendance overall? I believe the path forward will be different than what we have come to know we have to be right . as has been stated by Cohen and others that a lost football season could jeopardize the Hump renovations which is the biggest need now....