NIL killed college hoops its now professional hoops
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The linked study looks at 7 AAU universities and finds that athletics accounts for at most 16% of donations to "completed capital campaigns." But I think the percentage is only of donations designated for a particular area, and a lot of donations are not. OTOH, Clemson recently announced it had raised much more money for athletics than for academics. https://athleticdirectoru.com/articles/athletics-in-the-higher-education-philanthropic-ecosystem/
this is absurd...now they are passing the buck to regular students
This new system is destined to collapse eventually. Fans will revolt soon enough IMO. The money is disgusting, and who wants to see a new one year set of mercenaries every year who have no connection to the school, and then just leave right after the season ends?
Agreed. I just removed myself from auto-renewal for hoops season tickets and won't be repurchasing this year.
My family and I are still season ticket holders for football. I genuinely find it hard to be a fan of a one year bunch of paid guys with very little connection to Rutgers.
I am still deliberating and time is running out and I dont have the answers
Its not college basketball and all the bigwigs and media are acting like nothing has changed
Did you find that Opt-out form on the ScarletKnights website?
I actually called the number and asked where I could find it, and was told that the form is not ready to be put on the website.
I'll just have to call my ticket rep and tell him to take me off the auto renewal list.
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I just received an email that contained a link to the Opt-out form.
Here is the link: https://app.scarletknights.com/MBBO...2A373D274ADA70E355F04CC3E2F23092AF5C3CD10EFDC
After 47 years, I am now officially done.
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Agreed. It's actually pretty frustrating that it's barely even being acknowledged as an issue the size that it actually is.
WOW 47 years.
That is a shame. Sorry to hear, it's a loss for Rutgers and for the game.
I received the same email and that is how I was able to remove myself. I was sad doing it tbh. But even them putting us on that way kind of annoyed me. Something about getting a quick phone call from a rep has a social pleasantly to it as well.
We are really all just becoming numbers. That's what perhaps irks me the most. People just expected to desperately claw at the next carrot. Now fans have to pay more. Now they've gotta charge more to students, now they've gotta buy the next stream package blah blah friggen blah. No one has to stay plugged into the matrix.
I already called and canceled mine. I'm still going to follow Rutgers, but my overall interest in the sport has waned. Have a feeling there will be more than a couple games when I'll just check the box score the following morning.
I've already completely given up on women's college basketball years back, largely because the officiating got so terrible. I had gone from attending several games a year and following the team and conference closely.... to catching most games on TV... to catching a couple of games and monitoring box scores.... to occasionally checking in on a box score... to nothing at all these last few years.
Hoping my interest in men's basketball doesn't follow the same path, but it might.
