OT(?) : Utah Athletics signs Private Equity Deal

jessej · Tuesday at 10:41 PM

Utah to enter landmark private equity agreement worth $500 million

The first-of-its-kind agreement could set a new precedent as universities seek competitive edges in college athletics' revenue-sharing era

www.cbssports.com

I predict this will not end well.
Ticket prices nearly doubled with NIL.
Look for another ticket price increase as well as concessions and parking as the PE firm will want 25% return - yearly - at least

I would love to see the fine print

The Utah group was the one advising the Pac-12 commissioner to hold out for more cash during the TV contract negotiations.
Ad we know how that ended.

jessej · Tuesday at 10:45 PM

The risks and rewards of Utah’s private equity plans: Will others around college sports follow?

By Matt Baker, Justin Williams and Stewart Mandel Utah took college sports’ biggest step into private equity yet Tuesday when it approved a plan to partner with a private investment firm, Otro Capital, which would have an ownership stake in a new, for-profit business to fund Utes athletics and...

sports.yahoo.com

Utah Utes Launch Wild New $500M Private Equity Deal That Gives Donors Ownership Of Programs

With the introduction of NIL and a congress settlement that sees schools set to pay out former athletes nearly $3 billion in total, schools across the

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jessej · Tuesday at 10:51 PM

Blakeney's plan to sell stake in Howard not vetted

Howard University leadership has not yet vetted men's basketball coach Kenny Blakeney's proposal to sell a one-third stake in his program in exchange for $100 million, the school told ESPN in a statement on Tuesday.

www.espn.com

Blakeney - the Howard Men' BBall Coach - floated something similar more than a year ago - and was publicly shut down by management as it was not approved

MasonSAE4 · Wednesday at 11:02 AM

Folks, we’re in the late-stage

tblack33 · Friday at 3:50 PM

A congressman had an interesting response, if you want to start acting like a for profit entity, we’ll start taxing you like a for profit entity. I could see legislatures finally starting to put their foot down on this.

Pikapppatri8 · 2025-12-14T19:43:56-0500

MasonSAE4 said:
Folks, we’re in the late-stage

I am in total agreement the money influence is going to ruin college athletics. However, if you play it right - it could be something that solves our AD issue not being good at marketing. We could get a near to mid-term boost with the additional funding to support NIL and other needed investments.

FlPatriot · 2025-12-14T19:51:52-0500

Pikapppatri8 said:
I am in total agreement the money influence is going to ruin college athletics. However, if you play it right - it could be something that solves our AD issue not being good at marketing. We could get a near to mid-term boost with the additional funding to support NIL and other needed investments.

The A10 schools should create a consortium and fund a D1 team… far fetched maybe, but the way things are going now who knows.

MasonSAE4 · 2025-12-15T10:21:28-0500

Pikapppatri8 said:
I am in total agreement the money influence is going to ruin college athletics. However, if you play it right - it could be something that solves our AD issue not being good at marketing. We could get a near to mid-term boost with the additional funding to support NIL and other needed investments.

I would argue a simpler solution, and one that doesn’t require looking into the Ark of the Covenant, would be to find an AD that can fundraise. I may not like the reality of this new era of college sports, but it’s here, and the reality is that an AD’s job is now primarily raising money. If you’re not good at it, this is no longer the job for you.

Pikapppatri8 · 2025-12-15T10:26:21-0500

MasonSAE4 said:
I would argue a simpler solution, and one that doesn’t require looking into the Ark of the Covenant, would be to find an AD that can fundraise. I may not like the reality of this new era of college sports, but it’s here, and the reality is that an AD’s job is now primarily raising money. If you’re not good at it, this is no longer the job for you.

LOL - Agree - TBH - just get a rainmaker. Never thought I recommended looking into the Ark of the Covenant. I know how that ends.

MasonSAE4 · 2025-12-15T10:32:02-0500

Pikapppatri8 said:
LOL - Agree - TBH - just get a rainmaker. Never thought I recommended looking into the Ark of the Covenant. I know how that ends.

Unfortunately introducing private equity into most things is opening the box and getting good, long look. It has its place, but that place is absolutely 100% not college athletics.

Pikapppatri8 · 2025-12-15T10:39:28-0500

MasonSAE4 said:
Unfortunately introducing private equity into most things is opening the box and getting good, long look. It has its place, but that place is absolutely 100% not college athletics.

Having dealt with them a few times I agree....in principal but.....

The have stupid money and are stupid with money. If you could structure a deal to quickly fund investments (NIL, facilities, land buys, marketing, coaching salaries, and fundraising infrastructure you could accelerate a lot of goals. It's a risk proposition - but they are liquid and have patience as they searching everywhere for returns.

MasonSAE4 · 2025-12-15T11:04:03-0500

Pikapppatri8 said:
Having dealt with them a few times I agree....in principal but.....

The have stupid money and are stupid with money. If you could structure a deal to quickly fund investments (NIL, facilities, land buys, marketing, coaching salaries, and fundraising infrastructure you could accelerate a lot of goals. It's a risk proposition - but they are liquid and have patience as they searching everywhere for returns.

I’d be fine with using it to replace EBA, as that isn’t really a gamble but a necessity in the near future. But I don’t want PE or anyone else that wouldn’t have our best interest at heart anywhere near NIL or salaries or other things that may not pan out.

It’s like mama always said, “if you get in bed with the devil, don’t be surprised if you get a buttf**kin’”

Pikapppatri8 · 2025-12-15T11:26:54-0500

MasonSAE4 said:
I’d be fine with using it to replace EBA, as that isn’t really a gamble but a necessity in the near future. But I don’t want PE or anyone else that wouldn’t have our best interest at heart anywhere near NIL or salaries or other things that may not pan out.

It’s like mama always said, “if you get in bed with the devil, don’t be surprised if you get a buttf**kin’”

lol - I like your grandma,

They wouldn't have a say in NIL - they can help create a corpus for it. Like wise with a fund for coach's salaries. They only care about a return. We would have to make sure we would provide consistent returns. Maybe use them just for facilities and let them take a share of non-GMU event revenue. We would need someone savvy on our end to do the deal right - so that might be the thought killer right there.

But we need to go big as soon as possible to operate in this new tainted environment.

Or else we will get. a b**tF**kin

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