With a lede like “The facilities race in college athletics shows no sign of slowing, and athletics director Jay Jacobs proposes that Auburn pick up the pace in a major way”, do you really need to read any more to know what’s coming?
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UPDATE: Arkansas is prepared to spend $160 million on stadium renovation.
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Auburn spends like drunken sailors on leave. Sorry, I didn’t mean to insult drunken sailors.
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Jay Jacobs is either un-self aware and incompetent or he needs his pelotas hauled around in a dump truck.
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Seems like within the past month or so, we saw a chart around here showing the biggest operational losses in CFB, and Auburn was at the top. I guess they’re trying to keep up with the Gumps.
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It’s their only real purpose in life, Hog. Their hatred of all things Crimson and White is masked by “family” values and they have to compensate for the fact that they don’t occupy the loveliest little village on the plains. They occupy the humblest hard scrabble crossroads in east central alabama.
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I agree, sniffer…it must be really hard to be an Auburn fan…they have all the Alabama championships (what 30 or 40 now?) being rammed down their throats every waking moment…no wonder they have such bad attitudes…there’s no balm in Gilead for them…just unrelenting torture…
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“Loveliest Village on the Plains” is just a euphemism for “Less Shitty than Dothan”.
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or “Clemson without the lake”
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Don’t insult Dothan like that !! Yeah Aubiehas a serious case of penis envy when it comes to Alabama. Kind of like Tech to us.
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Add that their “student cost” for athletes is the highest in the conference and you’ve got a sure sign that they are being more bold in their efforts to find, pay and sign another Cam Newton!
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Get it right, Aladawg. It’s $Cam. 🙂
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Or $cum
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Looks like the $115 ticket for opposing fans is history.
Hello $200 ticket. If history holds true and the fans don’t buy them, the Auburn donors who ‘won’t be solicited in the interview’ will be required to purchase them in order to maintain their season tickets for next season.
Auburn does this because they can.
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The ticket prices at Jordan-Hare have been a complete and utter joke the last four or five years. Throw in the fact that Georgia fans had to pay them back-to-back thanks to the SEC expansion, and I just absolutely loathe the way Auburn goes about its business. I haven’t missed seeing a Georgia-Auburn game in person since I went to the 1998 game on the Plains. It’s my longest streak. In two years, I’ll be sorely tempted to let it lapse.
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Can any organization get credit easier than a major state supported university’s athletic program that happens to be in the SEC?
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Lowder’s bank went under, but even that hasn’t slowed Auburn down.
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How do some of these guys get to be AD’s
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Because NCAA college football is the only true game in some of these states.
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Because Jay Jacobs always be closing
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/sports/college/sec/auburn-university/war-eagle-extra/article55544195.html
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@Bulldog Joe: Living in Alabama for a few years now, your statement is beyond true. I no longer read the AL.com sports page or net. One would believe there is just Bama and Auburn football and whatever pro team one of the stars from here is on. Always asked Bama or Auburn and when I say neither, they just stare.
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here you go….
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2015/02/17/Colleges/Auburn.aspx
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“But the football team “also raised its revenues” by 10.5%, racking up more than $83.3M in revenue in ’14, including taking in $1M more in ticket sales at $28.2M. In addition, Auburn took in $39.4M in football donations, $7.6M more “than the program saw” in ’13.”
Whatever they paid Nick Marshall, I am sure it was not nearly enough.
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Are planning to have a huge aquarium with live Aubum players swimming and snorkeling in you can view from a huge glass with water falls to as added attraction?
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A dome is expensive, but it would nullify the need to build an IPF…and you could increase ticket prices enormously…It would be the loveliest domed stadium on the Plain.
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Wait, isn’t Auburn “losing money” on athletics?
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“UPDATE: Arkansas is prepared to spend $160 million on stadium renovation.”
Bert’s new pig pen renovation mottos;
0 Days Without a Slop Accident and
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A motto to live by.
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