@TomMarsLaw The question no one can answer is why should they? Why keep it in any format (assuming all formats lose money)?
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B Ferg
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The City of Atlanta outsources the management of its five city-owned tennis facilities to two private companies. (For years, they were managed by one company.) The nine-year contract was valued at up to $25 million, which the city described as "revenue positive" for Atlanta. 🧵
Andrew Hutchinson@NWAHutch
Hunter Yurachek has not made any public comments since last week's decision to cut tennis. Instead, I got the next best thing with exclusive insight on former long-time coach Robert Cox's meeting with the AD yesterday morning: bestofarkansassports.com/arkansas-tenni… #WPS
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@ElVerdeRican @HazelAppleyard I actually think all ages should take the Million. Let’s say it takes you 3 years of pushups to make a million:
1. You don’t know that you will be healthy or even alive for that long. It’s too slow.
2. At 7% rate of return, the million would be worth $1.225 million in 3 years
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If you did 30 pushups a day, you’d make a million in a little less than 10 years.
The answer to this question really depends on your age. A young person is better off taking $10 a push-up. If your past 60 your better off with the million. Also depends on if you are man or woman as upper body workouts are easier for men.
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@MeatEaterTV Don’t tell my wife you can do it for only hundreds of dollars.
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@B_McLeanSmith This is so well said. My Grandpa never graduated HS, got his GED, served in the Korean War. Was a bi-vocational pastor in small country churches for years. Even his grammar wasn’t perfect, much less his theology. But he served the body of Christ in small communities faithfully.
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So if you find yourself thinking yourself smarter and more sophisticated than your pastor, you may be right. But that doesn't mean he's not equipped to do his actual job better than you ever would be.
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I remember being fresh out of seminary and visiting a church near my home town. Kind of a "country" church with an older pastor that had a bit of a drawl (even though we were firmly in the midwest). After the sermon I remember thinking very critically of the sermon...
Miles Smith IV@IVMiles
There's a moment when smart Evangelical/Reformed guys in college or grad school go to a Sunday service and it hits them they're smarter and more sophisticated than the guy in the pulpit. They start thinking about Rome. I get it. Srsly DM me. Happy to talk. No judgement.
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@Madisox43 @KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart This is also not true. Scholarships can cover “full cost of attendence” which includes housing, meal plans, books. You don’t know much about how college works. Might want to sit this out
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@b_ferg777 @KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart A student's scholarship just covers tuition. Doesn't come close to a D1 athlete's
And a school could survive without any sports programs. They can't survive without the billions in research grants. So, which is more important?
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NIL has ruined college sports. That’s a fact. Schools are cutting non-major sports programs left and right, leaving a lot of former scholarship athletes in the dust. All because agents, parents, and businesses got greedy. Disgusting!
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@Madisox43 @KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart Also- if Pfizer wanted to pay some genius college researcher to be in a commercial no one would stop them. If an engineering student was so good at engineering that the local car dealership wanted to give them a car and pay them for commercials, they 100% could.
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@b_ferg777 @KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart Billions? In 2025 anOhioSt generated $336M in athletics
revenue. That same year anOhioSt got $1.46 BILLION in research grants. What about the lab students that helped generate billions in research grants? Shouldn't they be proportionately compensated?
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@Madisox43 @KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart NCAA money is distributed to the schools. Ohio State athletic department had over $300m in revenue last year.
Also, if your argument is “schools make tons of money off other students free labor so they should do the same for athletes” then you can miss me with that
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@b_ferg777 @KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart And schools got $117B in grants.
That NCAA revenue is not school revenue. That comes from the NCAA basketball tournament.
Athletes also get a monthly stipend of. $2K - $5K
Fine, pay athletes the same as a lab technician.
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@VladTheInflator @JordanBakerBK If you think deflation is good you are uneducated. Only thing worse than inflation is deflation. Deflation brings unemployment, unemployment brings recession.
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Denver overtakes Austin as the worst housing market in the nation leading in both inventory and price declines.
Great news for hard working young familes.
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@Madisox43 @KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart It was never working for free but be honest: was it a fair deal? These players are generating BILLIONS in revenue. On their backs schools built billion dollar facilities, paid coaches 10’s of millions. NIL sucks but the old way wasn’t fair. And the schools made it that way.
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@KevinHastings @RealRobReinhart A D1 athlete on scholarship gets free tuition, housing, unlimited meals, free tutoring, zero cost healthcare, free gear, free training, monthly stipend.
And can leave school debt-free.
I’d hardly call that “work for free”.
Any regular student would sign up for that tomorrow.
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@ShakeNTaake @Hogtrough Maybe…maybe not, gotta decide why you have each program. There are reasons to keep programs that lose money (Title 9, connection to the community, etc). But it’s really hard to justify a program that literally no one ever sees.
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@b_ferg777 @Hogtrough You’re cool with $6M on a women’s hoops team that’s never done anything?
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@kwmcnamee I am sure it is. But that doesn't really answer the question: why should they have it? Having a donor willing to build a nice facility isn't a reason to have a program.
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I’m sure the Billingsley family had something to do with the vision. It’s a beautiful facility.
B Ferg@b_ferg777
@kwmcnamee @MattBrownEP Everyone asking the wrong question. The question isn't "did they have to cut tennis" the question should be "why did they ever have tennis?" Zero value to the university.
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@kwmcnamee @MattBrownEP Everyone asking the wrong question. The question isn't "did they have to cut tennis" the question should be "why did they ever have tennis?" Zero value to the university.
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A terrific dive into Arkansas’ elimination of M/W tennis: “Did Arkansas absolutely have to do this? No, I don’t think so. Most schools don’t have to drop any sports in order to balance the books. Arkansas wanted to do this.” Via @MattBrownEP extrapointsmb.com/p/the-complica…
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@WinterSportsLaw @JTweetsTennis This is it. There is literally zero value to the University of Arkansas for having a tennis team. ZERO. Everyone asking the wrong question here. The Q isn't "why did you have to cut tennis?" The Q is "Why did you ever have it?"
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@JTweetsTennis And could also be lack of donor/alumni pushback.
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Many want to blame “college athletes being paid” when a school cuts a sport.
And they often want to go back to placing unilateral restrictions on athletes.
But that world is gone.
If schools see value (marketing or education) in a specific sport they’ll fund it.
David Berri@wagesofwins
The operating revenue for the University of Arkansas is over $800 million. The two tennis programs cost about $800,000. The school can afford to keep tennis. It is just choosing to spend this money on something else.
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@10s_racing @Dan_Furman because no one cares about it? No one attends, no one watches, no one can name a single player. The university gets nothing out of having it.
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The current landscape of college sports is quietly killing the Olympic pipeline in the US...
and nobody in power wants to admit it.
Here's what's really happening behind the scenes 🧵👇
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I’ll bet if you crowd-sourced $2.5 million from the tennis community, you could fund the program and a KPMG or McKinsey study on how to make the program become less of a financial liability…
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@AaronGogley @Mr704intheQC People in Arkansas watch the other sports. They go to football games, baseball games, softball games, gymnastics, even track meets. Some of those sports lose money, but they engage the school with the community. No one goes to tennis. No one watches tennis.
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You Just NeEd MoRe FunDiNg
Freakin 🤡
Schools were already relying on student fees and institutional support just to keep sports solvent. Then people like Mitt and Jay create an environment where donors for all but a few schools quit donating and buying tickets because their team can’t win and there is no relationship with players now. Then he has balls to say you just need new funding sources. You don’t hate these people enough.
Mit Winter@WinterSportsLaw
This👇 You don’t have to price fix college athlete pay to fund college Olympic sports programs. People need to move past that old mindset. If schools want to fund all teams at current levels the answer is new funding. Could be the university side or other sources.
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@ChrisYow14 Let’s say college football ruined Arkansas tennis. So what? Why should a university in Arkansas have a tennis team anyway?
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See, the problem with these morons on X is they forget sports outside their precious football exist.
College football is going to ruin college sports. It is going to eliminate pathways to college for so many.
And X users will rejoice bc more people will be as stupid as them.
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