Noah Onkst

Husband to Amber; Father to Emma; Architect; Reds, Bengals, Hilltoppers, and Juggernauts fan

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@BillyRsports @ShannonTheDude $2 and a 6-pack of RC is my best offer.

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@TheTowelRackWKU Who are the 8??? There aren’t THAT many TTU fans! Seriously though I gamble a lot on CFB. It’s my sport of choice, but it gives me pause that we now know there is a guy (and surely more) betting on THEIR OWN TEAM. So draftkings, FanDuel, etc. have an interest in cleaning this up.

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@all_about_aBenj @LanceMcAlister It’s even worse when people are doing the wave in the 8th inning of a 1-run game.

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@LanceMcAlister Look on the bright side… they never finished 6th going back to 2000!

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@TheTowelRackWKU Last season was a huge missed opportunity. Murray made it from our regional!

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 But that’s my point. Either schools will get the money and spend it or they won’t get the money and won’t spend it. The market will naturally ebb and flow.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 But if your point is that the $$ will dry up, compensation for transfers wouldn’t help that. It would make it far worse for the big schools and the small schools likely wouldn’t benefit. Look at WKU. They have a ton of guys coming in every year so they would be paying out a lot

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 But what is the solution?

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@77WABCradio “Instead of…” there are 81 home games. Why not have both and include everyone?

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@TheTowelRackWKU I don’t think the university is losing its identity. They have the highest graduation rate ever. State funding has decreased steadily as the legislature neglects state universities. I’m a proud alum.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 No one is forcing any school to pay anything. Schools can spend $0 on players. If enough schools can’t afford players, the players will have to take less. If workers demand $20/hr but employers can only afford $10, eventually workers will have to take the $10 or not have a job

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 P.s. I’m only finding tiny, mostly private and/or for-profit schools that have closed and none that anyone has ever heard of. They don’t have athletics and certainly not anywhere near the D1 level so rev share and NIL wouldn’t have been a factor anyway.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 What system are you referring to- the school or athletics?

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 They are paying Brian Kelly nearly $1M a month and still turning a profit. They just finished paying Orgeron. The AD said they would be “in great shape” if not for that.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 You don’t have a single example? Even if that’s true, non-D1 schools generally aren’t paying players. So the new system would have nothing to do with that.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 They strategically raised the standards to reduce enrollment and not have students who had no chance to graduate.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 But that’s an NCAA rule that can change - having enough sports to qualify as D1. If it gets to that, the membership can get that adjusted. I’d say that’s the least of any worries.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 We obviously disagree on some of this and that’s ok. But ultimately what is your proposed solution to any of this? “Going back to how it used to be” ain’t happening. The toothpaste is out of the tube. So what happens going forward to fix the issues?

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 Well yeah. They made bad hires, wrote ridiculous contracts, then chose to pay insane buyouts. Paying 3 FB coaches is going to put any school in a bind.

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@TheTowelRackWKU @bportnoy15 They didn’t run off students. Gary created an unsustainable model of growing the university as large as possible. But the bigger issue is that state funding has steadily decreased. But WKU student attendance has always been lousy.