Beth Johnson

SMU 🏈 🎓 🎓 Mom, Toledo 🏈 Mom, App State 🏐 Mom, Toledo 🏈 Mom, Mom of 4 D1 athletes-Wife of an amazing coach-Hoosier in FL, Carpenter

[App State Volleyball @AppStateVB]

Congratulations to our Chancellor’s List and Dean’s List honorees!

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭
🏐 MeMe Davis
🏐 Lou Johnson
🏐 Delanie Grevengoed
🏐 Caroline Farthing

#OverTheTop

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@CapitolKVD One athlete spoke so roughly 200,000 others were left out. He did a nice job but was a drop in the ocean. No caps on NIL or transfers. The players didn't make this mess and they aren't to blame. Nice when the scapegoat for everyone else's mistakes is ignored.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@joshbmessenger If they can’t say it with their full chest using a named account, they should be ignored.

[Kade Pelton @KadePelton]

It’s…. TIME ‼️
OV season is here 🚀🔒

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@WinterSportsLaw This assumes that the flow of 18 year old graduates is the same as it has been in the past. There are/will be 15% fewer by 2029 and even fewer after that cliff. Birth decline from 2008 recession that became a trend.bigger question is which colleges prepared for this?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.

In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S. high school graduates peaked at roughly 3.9 million in 2025. By 2029, that number drops 15%. By 2041, it drops by nearly half a million students per year.

Every school in this tweet had access to the same Census data. They all saw the same curve.

Administrative positions at U.S. colleges grew 60% between 1993 and 2009, ten times the rate of tenured faculty growth. Non-instructional spending (student services, administration) grew 29% from 2010 to 2018. Instructional spending grew 17%. Average tuition at public four-year schools went from $3,500 in 2000 to $10,560 in 2023. Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads.

They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.

The split in this data tells you everything. Clemson, Syracuse, Duke, UNC, and Indiana are all cutting because the model broke. Alabama, Ole Miss, and the University of Florida are turning away more applicants than ever. Harvard gets five applications for every spot. The middle is where the cliff hits. Elite schools absorb demand. Everyone between elite and community college fights over a shrinking pool. The Fed published a study in December 2024 predicting 80 colleges will close in the next five years. Since 2016, over 100 already have. In 2024 alone, 28 shut down. One per week.

These program cuts and layoffs are a decade late. The birth rate data was sitting in Census spreadsheets the entire time. Everyone in higher education administration saw the enrollment cliff coming. They hired more administrators anyway.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@nickatnocap Look into the 15% decline in the population of 18 year olds. 25-29 there are 576,000 FEWER college kids. This contracture is preparing for this population decrease and the ones that come after. We are about to have too much supply in the college market. Nothing to do w/ sports.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@SMorrison_ Don’t forget that scholarship $ used for room and board/stipend checks is ALSO taxable income. So even without NIL they need to send it quarterly taxes.

[Brandt Gray @BrandtG214]

2025 Football Season Highlights - Junior Year
Record 10-2

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[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@Riley_Gaines_ I believe that they only have 6 months (sometimes a year…may depend on your state) from the date of service to bill your insurance so if it has been longer, that may be why they don’t have your insurance all the sudden to buy more time/extension in the providers contract.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Vice President JD Vance: “My advice to young men who are thinking about becoming fathers who are about to have babies is, you're never ready”

“It will be shocking. It will be crazy. It will be the most difficult and the most rewarding thing that you’ve ever done.”

"I would do it all again; in fact, I have one regret, it's a slight regret. I wish we had started early and had more”

Don’t wait until everything is “Perfect” to have kids. Children are what perfects life.

[Toledo Football @ToledoFB]

Our 2026 Schedule is here‼️

Mark your calendars now 👏

#TeamToledo

[Toledo Football @ToledoFB]

Working on the weekend like usual 👏

#TeamToledo

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@aakashgupta My mom tip is to teach little kids your phone number as a song. My college age kids can still sing it. I refuse to ever change my number.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@sstaedtler98 @otter401 @WinterSportsLaw No one gets paid up front and plenty of businesses offer tuition reimbursement.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@emilyetaylor23 Go get yourself an Arby’s jamocha shake and let me know if that changes your mind.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@RacketRockRoll @achristovichh 1% might still be better than 0%.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@ClayTravis @realDonaldTrump Include players in these conversations. It is insulting to not include one current athlete in this. They get scapegoated for all the problems but don’t get to speak. Just read these comments to see the scapegoating.

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

Not sure why this meeting is even happening at this point, besides as a media event for the President.

A serious meeting on these issues would include athletes.

[Beth Johnson @BuildsByBeth]

@TimothyNerozzi Why are we ever calling babies (human beings with souls) “it”.