https://12thman.com/news/2021/...-baseball-coach.aspx
Just stumbled onto the above. Relatively old news but I thought the pics of the private jet were interesting.
EZ to see how the SEC D1 environment might prove an irresistible lure to a parent ambitious for their son, let alone the son himself.
Pretty amazing to this D3 dad.
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Nice. I thought it was cool when my son's D3 program got a bus for his sophomore season. Freshman year they used a bunch of vans.
Yes, it means more. Schlossnagel’s annual salary is $1.25M. I don’t know what the Bowdoin College (NESCAC) baseball coach makes. He’s been the coach for twenty years. His salary is paid by an endowment from an alumnus and contributions. The average Bowdoin coach salary is 92K. The baseball team’s annual budget is 200K.
My D3 sons had to help fund their one spring trip a year. I can't fathom how a Power 5 player can afford to play at one of those schools, considering all the traveling they do. There must be a lot of rich kids playing on those teams.
@smokeminside posted:My D3 sons had to help fund their one spring trip a year. I can't fathom how a Power 5 player can afford to play at one of those schools, considering all the traveling they do. There must be a lot of rich kids playing on those teams.
Question on the bolded, what does that have to do with anything?
At TCU last year, several of the away games, the boys flew private. The boys pay for nothing...travel, hotels, food...
@old_school posted:Question on the bolded, what does that have to do with anything?
It's O-tay, Smoke... #SomeOfUsGetTheSarcasm
@JCG posted:Nice. I thought it was cool when my son's D3 program got a bus for his sophomore season. Freshman year they used a bunch of vans.
JCG - With internet connectivity? You know you've hit the "non-P5 big time" when you've got wireless on the bus. 
Like RJM's example, my oldest son's college program was and still is self funded. The coaches salary is endowed. Their field was on a great part of campus....right in the middle....valuable property that the school deemed too valuable. So, they are putting up a for sale sign for the next mega donor to move in next to the Bill and Melinda Gates Hall. Honestly, I think the professors at Gates Hall got tired of foul balls hitting the building.
Smoke - As always, its all about the bucks, scratch, greenbacks, cheddar, dough, loot, moolah, benjamins, samolians, dinero at any college baseball level.
@fenwaysouth posted:JCG - With internet connectivity? You know you've hit the "non-P5 big time" when you've got wireless on the bus.
It wouldn't matter. The kid does not believe in Wi-Fi. You should see my ATT bill. The pie chart of the data usage is: two teeny tiny slivers for Mom and Dad, a quarter slice of pie for big brother, and nearly 3/4 of the pie for the little guy. (needless to say I had to go with unlimited data years ago)
@smokeminside posted:My D3 sons had to help fund their one spring trip a year. I can't fathom how a Power 5 player can afford to play at one of those schools, considering all the traveling they do. There must be a lot of rich kids playing on those teams.
Unfortunately the team doesn’t pay for parents. I had two playing back to back eight of nine years. Over that time I wiped out my frequent flyer account. I stopped the heavy travel on the company (sold it) and accumulating points when the youngest was a high school senior and the oldest a senior in college.
My son is a part of it but I'm still in awe of the perks that a P5 player gets, especially when it comes to being a winning team. It was astounding the journey last year and the life those guys live some times. I compared it to my middle son who was at a mid major and it is totally different. Can't imagine what it is like to be at a small school in relationship.
Now try to imagine what they do for ol' Jimbo whose team makes money.
Son flew several times for away games while at Clemson. Most were bus rides (motor coach) and that wasn't too shabby. I think at least one or two of the flights were private....when he flew a few times for Team USA that was commercial.
While the accommodations are much nicer now, it wasn’t unheard of for D1 teams to fly private even back in the day. We took to private planes to Fayetteville to play Arkansas in 1978 with the SWC Championship on the line. We won 2 of 3 and before we boarded the planes to go back our HC (r.i.p., TC) gave us 20 minutes to make a beer run so we could celebrate on the flight back. It wasn’t a well thought out plan as there were no bathrooms on the private planes. As the beer was downed and nature called we found ourselves in an uncomfortable dilemma. Out of desperation we began to fill the empty bottles with recycled beer. And that went okay until we hit some air pockets. I don’t need to tell you what we smelled like by the time we landed at Easterwood Airport - but we didn’t care!
Anything over a 4 hour drive is a flight. About most are commercial, some are private, albeit on planes that look like they might break down on any given moment.
And I can assure you our coach does not sniff 1.25 mil
@RJM posted:Yes, it means more. Schlossnagel’s annual salary is $1.25M. I don’t know what the Bowdoin College (NESCAC) baseball coach makes. He’s been the coach for twenty years. His salary is paid by an endowment from an alumnus and contributions. The average Bowdoin coach salary is 92K. The baseball team’s annual budget is 200K.
The important point wasn’t to clarify what a D3 like Bowdoin College spends on baseball. The important point was to point out the difference between a major conference D1 originally referred in the thread versus a D3. You should have posted Bowdoin expenses versus Texas A&M if you wanted to stay on point in the thread.
@RJM posted:The important point wasn’t to clarify what a D3 like Bowdoin College spends on baseball. The important point was to point out the difference between a major conference D1 originally referred in the thread versus a D3. You should have posted Bowdoin expenses versus Texas A&M if you wanted to stay on point in the thread.
A P5 school will always be an outlier to any other conference in the country no matter what the division the school might compete.
You know the deal, follow the pigskin.
