I don't know about the financial considerations of these tournaments. I hope that arising from the broadcast rights and sponsorships that Mason walks away with $25k-$100k - after expenses.
Neither Tournament does anything for the team's OOC SOS or Net rating. vcu is the gold standard of the A10 and is participating in the Battle for Atlantis with return games of H and H with New Mexico, and Nevada and the road game with NC State...any amount of success against the above competition will leave them with a top 50 NET rating in the OOC to.begin conference play.I don't know about the financial considerations of these tournaments. I hope that arising from the broadcast rights and sponsorships that Mason walks away with $25k-$100k - after expenses.
I saw this today and hope the GMU BBall leadership would consider a "tournament" like this.
A triangle home and away - but with the right teams in a "close" location a lot of fans could attend the away game.
Something like JMU or ODU, Delaware, Temple, Princeton, American
Agreed - I would rather add more P5 buy games. Would love to get a nuts and bolts explanation about our scheduling. We all know we can't get P5's to come play us - even with a former Coach/legend coaching at one of them or very close connections of our current coach at others.
Can we at least see what the rest of the schedule is before freaking out like we are playing a 360 SOS schedule like our buddy Chris Caputo does at GW?
Your second paragraph hits the nail on the head. I always thought it was "you have to provide value and be no risk", but when I see teams who haven't been relevant or equivalent to Mason getting decent match-ups year after year, I'm just stumped. Yes the vcu and the Dayton's of the world provide value and are little risk, I get it. However, I question how and why URI/UMASS/Joes all seem to get their share of games that are decent and we are on the same plane as them. I'd love to know what the answer is.Now that we have to pay kids every year I'm assuming the Mason scheduling team has to look at the expenditure to revenue generated to make it make sense to play these P5 teams on the road versus bringing in a less than ideal quality opponents at home.
Landing these P5 teams seems like rocket science to our scheduling team apparently and I would like to know more of the reasons behind this - is it us? Do we shy away from these types of agreements or ask for too much? Maybe the financials don't make sense? Maybe teams don't want to play us or agree to a return game? Why exactly can't we land these types of games!? Now that we have had some success in the A10...do other schools perceive us more of a threat for an upset at their place and not just a cupcake team?
Of course we would love to see P5 teams more than once at home but just how hard is it exactly, especially in the landscape of where college bball is now.
Take this article for what it's worth but seems we made $1.2million profit from basketball - either last year or years ago.
George Mason University Athletics Programs
What sports are offered at George Mason University? Learn how each athletic ranks, how much revenue it brings in, the average sports aid per student athlete at GMU, and more.www.collegefactual.com
Why can’t we use the 5 million to get a top 4 nba draft pick and outbid a team like Arkansas for a program changing player?This article gives a pretty good breakdown of what does into our Sporting Revenues over the years but only goes to 2022 - assuming this is for all sports.
Their latest breakdowns (2022) - we brought in over $35 million, with $30million in expenses - so we made close to $5million in revenues. Now do we bank most of that money or put it into investment funds... do they move some of it around to other needs/areas? Would expect some is being directed to the $2.2 million facility upgrades.
George Mason Revenue and Finances - USA TODAY
How much does the George Mason college athletic program make each year? See their entire revenue picture, including ticket sales and expenses.sportsdata.usatoday.com
I'm not sure of how the numbers in each of the expense and revenue columns are EXACTLY the same in 2021 as they are in 2022. It's beyond reasonable belief that the amount of ticket sales in one year would match exactly what they were the following year. And did ticket sales really go up 12-fold from 2020 to 2021?This article gives a pretty good breakdown of what does into our Sporting Revenues over the years but only goes to 2022 - assuming this is for all sports.
Their latest breakdowns (2022) - we brought in over $35 million, with $30million in expenses - so we made close to $5million in revenues. Now do we bank most of that money or put it into investment funds... do they move some of it around to other needs/areas? Would expect some is being directed to the $2.2 million facility upgrades.
George Mason Revenue and Finances - USA TODAY
How much does the George Mason college athletic program make each year? See their entire revenue picture, including ticket sales and expenses.sportsdata.usatoday.com
This part makes some sense, COVID impact in 2020.
Ahh, of course! How quickly I forgot!
American can get those road games because they’ll almost certainly lose all of them. Are we supposed to want that for Mason for some reason I’m unaware of?
Oh bull shit. It’s June 5 and we have almost an entirely new team, not even Kreskin has half a clue how good we’re gonna be.
So you want to schedule more games we’re likely to lose? Even middling P4 teams win at least 75% of their OOC home games. Interesting strategy to build an at-large profile by repeatedly punching yourself in the face lol.
No one really is saying otherwise, just asking to wait and see how the rest of the schedule shakes out.
