Dave Paulsen

[GMUSig03]

indeed. And the ones you do are usually on HGH.

maybe that's more baseball.

Is that a Ryan Braun reference? Go Canes!

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

Is that a Ryan Braun reference? Go Canes!

Does your pamphlet "Famous Jewish Sports Legends" have anyone else in it?

credit: 'Airplane'

 

[mkaufman1]

Does your pamphlet "Famous Jewish Sports Legends" have anyone else in it?

credit: 'Airplane'

I'd hope it would have Hank Greenberg

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

I'd hope it would have Hank Greenberg

Page two of like seven.

But, not hall of famer Rod Carew...(erroneous lyrics by Adam Sandler)

Back on topic, I wonder if Dave Paulsen would ever pretend to be Jewish to land a recruit? I know the morally casual Jim Larranaga would...

 

[mkaufman1]

Page two of like seven.

But, not hall of famer Rod Carew...(erroneous lyrics by Adam Sandler)

Back on topic, I wonder if Dave Paulsen would ever pretend to be Jewish to land a recruit? I know the morally casual Jim Larranaga would...

I'd have to say he would, Dave Paulsenstein does have a nice ring to it...

 

[Vurbel]

I'd hope it would have Hank Greenberg

Bill Goldberg

 

[GreenLantern]

Bill Goldberg

Goooooolllllldddddbbbbbeeeeeerrrrrggggg

 

[MasonFanatic]

If Paulsen's connection to Behan helps us land someone like Casey Morsell, I'm all for it.

Isn't Lamar Butler still an assistant at St. John's?

 

[psyclone]

Interesting piece on DP's twitter on an analysis of non P5 Power NCAA bids. About 10 days old.

https://m.facebook.com/enthusiadams/posts/1918768828398001:0

 

[GMUgemini]

Interesting piece on DP's twitter on an analysis of non P5 Power NCAA bids. About 10 days old.

https://m.facebook.com/enthusiadams/posts/1918768828398001:0

I'm pretty sure this is the scheduling strategy of the old MVC (the P5 conferences complained about the MVC "manipulating their RPI).

But I would also caution against this strategy completely, because if leaves the teams open to the "they didn't play anybody" arguments like Illinois State this year, or St. Bonaventure the year before (both teams with RPIs around 30 who got left out of the tournament).

 

[GSII]

Not if you schedule home games with teams with similar RPI's or higher. Kinda like the Bracketbuster used to do for us. And after with our series with Witchita State.

 

[FreeGunston12]

Not if you schedule home games with teams with similar RPI's or higher. Kinda like the Bracketbuster used to do for us. And after with our series with Witchita State.

Gosh, I miss bracketbusters. Mostly because of the return games.

 

[GMUgemini]

Not if you schedule home games with teams with similar RPI's or higher. Kinda like the Bracketbuster used to do for us. And after with our series with Witchita State.

I hear you, but mid-major insularity might have the opposite effect, who knows? I would love to be a team that can say what Gonzaga says, (we'll play anyone anywhere any time). At the very least it would be nice to get back to the more higher profile holiday tournaments with higher profile teams. I also don't think schools like Memphis, Cincinnati, UConn, or Gonzaga see themselves on the same level or are that willing to schedule home-and-homes with teams like us. Being in the A-10, though, most years we should have enough top 100 and top 50 games in conference for that not to matter as much. You can't say the same thing about the now current MVC or CAA.

I think the one thing we could all get behind is Mason getting up to near or up to $5 million a year for its basketball team's budget.

 

[GSII]

I think the one thing we could all get behind is Mason getting up to near or up to $5 million a year for its basketball team's budget.

Disagree. We should cut a few sports to get us to that $5million mark.

 

[GMUgemini]

Disagree. We should cut a few sports to get us to that $5million mark.

There are several ways to increase the basketball budget, cutting sports is one of them. Increasing revenue is another.

 

[GSII]

Latter hasnt worked. Time to cut.

 

[GMUgemini]

I disagree. Athletic revenue in 2006 was $11 million, in 2015 it's $26 million. The only time it's ever dipped was between 2013 and 2014.

Paulsen is going to bring a better product to the court, fans will come back, donations will increase, and we won't have to take the PR hit of cutting sports to have a competitive basketball budget.

And let's make it clear, if Paulsen was getting paid what Mike Rhoades is going to be paid for next season (and he might be if he gets us back to the Dance), our budget would be closer to $4 million just from his salary bump.

edit: forgot to mention the revenue sharing agreement with the A-10 is a huge boon if we do make it back to the dance. It's a 70-30 split between teams who get in versus teams who don't. Even a one-and-done trip is going to be worth several hundred thousands dollars over 6 years.

 

[GSII]

Where are you getting those numbers from?

If you are looking at the usa today stats, then the difference of 11 million in 2006 and 26 million in 2016 came from 7 million difference in student fees, 2.7 million in licensing fees, and a 5 million bump from the 'school fund'. donations are very anemic and inconsistent. also, years 2007 and 2008 are missing and we are 2 million over budget. time to cut.

 

[GMUgemini]

Where are you getting those numbers from?

If you are looking at the usa today stats, then the difference of 11 million in 2006 and 26 million in 2016 came from 7 million difference in student fees, 2.7 million in licensing fees, and a 5 million bump from the 'school fund'. donations are very anemic and inconsistent. also, years 2007 and 2008 are missing and we are 2 million over budget. time to cut.

I don't think cutting sports is going to yield the kind of savings you might want. Looking at JMU, who cut 10 sports, they saved $550,000 a year (granted that's 2006 money). The maximum we could cut and stay NCAA division 1 compliant would be 4 men's sports and 2 women's sports (or 3 and 3, but you know that would never happen). But I'd be surprised if there were significant savings from cutting 6 low profile sports like Tennis or Golf.

Instead, I like what they are doing -- much needed renovations to the baseball stadium, which might bring in more long-term revenue, pursuing a deal with D.C. United on a new soccer stadium, which will bring in new revenue if that deal is reached and approved, investing in a new basketball practice facility, which should help recruiting and putting a better product on the floor for both the men and women (which should bring in added revenue and fan interest -- e.g. donations).

By the way, JMU's student fees bring in $35 million, ODU's $28 million, vcu's $19 million, and GMU's $14 million.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

If you have to cut sports to make it work at the NCAA DI level w/o football, you probably don't belong at the DI level.