Ok, this is going to be hard for a lot of you, but I’m just going to say it. Bill Moos the football visionary was different than Bill Moos the AD. He hurt us quite a bit, and there will be more to this story leaked very soon.
I am waiting for people to actually show some "dastardly" Bill Moos plot, but what this really looks like is people fabricating an excuse to gut the athletic department and screw everybody over.
That's what it looks like to me.
Everything I have looked at. (And I look at everything)
Shows the athletic revenue increased 50% from about 40 million to 60 million
And that we are spending a lot to pay off a 120 million dollar football project that turned our laughing stock Martin Stadium from this....
To this...
He did not hurt us. He made WSU better. There is actual visual proof it is better. The football team is better, we aren't a laughing stock anymore. Moos hire produced 3 winning seasons in a row, and a beautiful stadium, and YES IT COSTS MONEY. WE ALL KNEW IT WOULD COST MONEY.
And did the athletic department revenue go up or go down? It went UP... 20 million dollars PER YEAR UP.
From 40 million in revenue to 60 million in revenue.
The Pac-12 revenue only went up by 10 million during that span. So we made another 10 million PER YEAR though Moos.
What "hurt" did he do? Keep all the money for himself? I didn't see him buying tons of ranches everywhere. That's a lot of money to hide. And if he did. We can get it back. Then sure he's a jerk for stealing, but I didn't see him steal anything.
All I see is a bunch of people crying that all this cost 120 million dollars. Which is what we ALL KNEW IT WOULD COST BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD IT COST THAT MUCH BACK IN 2011.
One report said we were paying 9 million per year on the construction costs. 6 years that is 45 million paid by the athletic department... Exactly what I said it has paid. Does that mean the school is subsidizing the other 80 million? YES. YES IT IS. But we had 200 million in reserves. The whole point is that we can pay for it, and the athletic department can get in the black and we can pay back the school. IT JUST TAKES PATIENCE.
Ernie Kent was the only really bad decision I have seen Moos make. Which is fine. We can fire him and save a lot of money and do something else with basketball. Fire him pay him 5 million and hire T.J. Otzelberger (who is only making 400k at South Dakota State) you could pay him 5 years guaranteed 1 million.
Considering the cost of firing Kent for 5 million you actually would save 400k per year by hiring Otzelberger. Or about a total of 2 million.
Meaning the total cost to hire Otzelberger and get rid of Kent right now is only 3 million. Which is not a lot to turn basketball completely around.