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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. What up? Welcome in. This is the Hurt FOX Sports Radio iHeartradio app. Welcome in. For the next hour, you got Doug Gottlieb sitting in for Colin and the big news of the day, big story of the day, wherever you're listening to us on the show. And by the way, of course you can always download the podcast that the show is done or you can listen to the Doug Gottlieb show, which follows the show on most FOX Sports Radio stations. Yeah. So Michigan gets punished. And here, here's what you're going to read. Okay. Here's what you're going to read. You're going to read that there's a $50,000 fine, right. And that it's also 10% of the football budget, a fine equivalent to the anticipated postseason competition revenue sharing associated with this and next year's college football seasons. That's big numbers right there. Big numbers. Okay. A 25% reduction in football official visits during the 25, 26 season. That doesn't really make that big a dent. Okay. And Connor Stallions, Jim Harbaugh, Denard Robinson, even Sharon Moore is going to be suspended one additional game. He was suspended two games this year. There's going to be a third one. But the big thing is that the projection is a $30 million fine to Michigan. $30 million fine, that's a lot of money. Now, can you make it up? Of course you have 100,000 seat stadium. It's going to be full. You can charge up ticket prices, you can raise some more money, but that's $30 million that you planned on budgeting, having that you won't have. And you're going to lose the College Football playoff revenue you are going to get as well. And I'm going to commend the NCAA again. I don't, I don't think the violations were that big of a deal. I don't. But what they've done is they found a way to punish the school without truly punishing the players at the school. Right. Like none of these. They're not losing a game. They're not losing a chance to play for a championship. We're not taking down a banner. But what we're doing is we're crippling your chance to compete and go out and spend a bunch of money. Reality is, I don't know how much it affects football as much as the other sports, the non revenue generating sports. And I'm guessing at, at Michigan, that's everything outside of basketball and football, men's basketball and football, but yeah, I, I think that what, what is at stake here. Hey, what's at stake here is the NCAA trying to find a way to find the perfect punishment going forward. This is a, this is a, a sea change in NCAA history because in any other punishment in the past, what would have happened? Scholarship reductions, postseason ban and take down a banner. Right? That's like their thing. Scholarship reductions, postseason ban, take down a banner. Well, here's the problem. Scholarship reductions don't. They do work. They cripple you going forward in the future. But now when you have a set number, I think it's 105 college football players, it's called a roster cap. So if you had. Not if you just, if you took away scholarships, they can have their collective pay for the scholarship or pay for the. All the fees. Understand, make sense. It's like you can do this when you, if you want to buy a kid a car, you can't give him a car. You can't buy the car and let him use it, but you can pay him the money that he then pays for the car. Making sense? Okay. So for this, if you take away scholarships, all you're doing is they got, they can be creative and find a way to cover the cost of those scholarships with their collective, which can be done the postseason band. Well, very few of the parties that were part of this issue at Michigan a couple years ago are still on campus. So what does that really do? And taking down a banner we've seen in the past, that doesn't matter. That doesn't make sense. None of it. So I'm just going to tell you, I, I think this is. If it stands up in court, this is the future of NCAA punishments. And I actually think it's pretty smart. Does it cripple Michigan football? It hurts them. Definitely hurts them in perception more with fans and with alums than it does with players like guys, don't they. They don't care. Can I still play for championships? I still play for Michigan. And some. A Michigan degree is still important. My guess is here's what happens. This is just a guess. Next year becomes the year where all of this affects the football program. And I'm guessing that Sharon Moore ends up becoming the fall guy for it. Most coaches who deal with NCAA infractions don't survive to the next contract. It's just too hard. And in this case, if you don't have the money, you can't compete. It's really that simple. If you don't have the money, you can't compete. Do I think they can move some money over from other sports. Yeah, they can find ways to be creative that if we pay this fine out of our football budget, we'll just find ways to get, you know, out of budget things and we'll make it work. But I don't know how many people know this did two or three years ago coming out of COVID when the Big 12 added schools, because they added schools but the new TV deal hadn't taken place, there was like a five to six million dollars shortfall. You guys know that. And schools had to decide whether or not they would just pay the five or six million dollars upfront or they pay it over a two year period. And I know of one school that in the summer they decided, hey, we don't need air conditioning and in the winter we don't need heat in our buildings. It'll save us a million dollars. It's a real thing, right. In the summer, nobody's around. If you're going to have workouts, you have in the morning, you have in the practice facility, but in the arenas which are really expensive to heat and to cool and you just cut that off for a year. And some calculations, you save $1 million. So yeah, you got to pay $6 million out of the, yet $6 million less coming in, but you're spending $1 million less over a two year period. Not turn on the heat. Touching on the air. It really is that slim of margins in high major universities. So what do I think happens? Yeah, what I, what I think happens, quite honestly is is that Michigan football next year takes a real hit. But Michigan's other, other programs in the athletic department are going to take the most severe hit because if you move $500,000 off of softball to cover the loss of like all of this stuff matters. It's all connected. And as it stands, even with the most financially successful and rich universities, they're all working on tight margins now because you hadn't been able to plan for paying kids, you know, a salary cap of 20, $25 million. And what happens, and just so people understand the, the ruling where schools get, I think it's 22 million a year to spend on revenue share. The biggest chunk of that like 13 million is proposed to be, you can use for football. That's only a portion of it. The rest at the high, high highest level they get, we call it sweeteners. Right where Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Nebraska. In order to be, order to be successful, you can't build a team on $13 million. You need like $25 million. So the $12 million is in donations to an nil collective, which is on top of what they're getting from the universities with Rev Share. But all that money off of Rev Share, the money that they're making from the Big Ten network, from where all the Big Ten games being on TV on big noon kickoff, whatever that money was, there was a plan for it. And now they have to spend, you know, 22 million of it on players in mostly in football and basketball and occasionally in an additional sport. So you're already on a tight budget. You cut out 10%, $30 million, fine. And now money's got to come from somewhere. Well, you're still going to invest in the programs that make you money, right? So there was already the talk, and this is mostly non power four of, hey, a lot of these ancillary sports are not going to survive. They're just not, you know, lacrosse, track and field, these tennis. These sports are expensive. And they remember, it's not just you have to have the players there. Sometimes you have to pay those players to compete if you want to get the good ones, right? And then, oh, yeah, by the way, you have the facilities, the coaches, the facility upkeep as well. All that's expensive. If you cut off the sport, you're saving a couple million dollars. You just do a club sport. I think that may trigger not a canceling of sports at Michigan, but it's definitely going to affect their entire athletic department, the whole thing. And I'm only commending the ncaa. I'm only doing it, okay? Only doing it because this is where it hurts, right? This is where it hurts. There's no tongue lashing or taking down banners or taking away scholarships or doing anything fake. College football, college basketball, your chance to be successful. It's all about your financial resources, right? And they just cut out, they cut the toes off of Michigan. They didn't cut the legs off. They'll still be able to compete. You still got a lot of money. You can still make some of it back. But 30 million is 30 million, man. 30 million is 30 million. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to check in with Andy Staples coming up next in the Herd, will Michigan's punishment have an impact on the Big Ten this season? Plus, we'll dive more into the details around the NCAA's ruling with Andy Staples. That's next. I'm Doug Gottlieb. This is the Herd. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS1 and the iHeartRadio app. Hi, this is Jay. I'm the producer of the Paulie and Tony Fusco Show. Usually in these promos, they ask you to listen to the show. I'm here to ask you, please don't listen to the show. The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest takes on sports imaginable. Don't listen to this show so it can get cancelled.
