I think we should ask Mr. Bianchi how to have a home and away with a team that just tore down its stadium?
-Zeb On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Oliver Barry wrote: > I’m conflicted too. I don’t want to support Miami but, I’d rather > play them than f$U. We’d been playing them much longer and had a > better rivalry when we dropped them over the semis. > I think Mike Bianchi was right that there was a little greed on > both sides that caused the end of the series. But, the greed on > our side was justified. Miami needs us much more than we need them. > They never could fill the Orange Bowl with Temple and Charleston > Southern. They could at least sell out with us. > The whole thing is bad, but it is worse for them than us. We’ll > make it just fine playing our 2 or 3 patsies a year while they’re > trying to recruit against us and play a full schedule of them. > > Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI > Real Estate Broker > Halo Realty, LLC > 700 E. Main St. > Hendersonville TN 37075 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > office: 615-822-3509 > fax: 615-822-7741 > mobile: 615-972-4239 > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Vega > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] Ego, money sacking good grid > rivalries > > > On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Oliver Barry wrote: > > > Yes, we can talk about all the student athletes who could be helped > with the $2 million every other year we would lose if we played at > Miami. And, I’d like to think that Dear Old UF is only thinking of > them when we refuse to play them on a home and away basis, but I > just don’t think that’s entirely accurate. The $2 million is an > economic reality. It pays for facilities, salaries, etc too. It > also funds a few scholarships. But, couldn’t we have looked at the > long term investment potential here? > Would we make nothing off the television revenue this game would > generate? Would the $2 million we lose one year only double on > those years we play at home because of the increased national > exposure and attention? > And most importantly, wouldn’t we have been able to recruit better > in South Florida if we’d been playing their sorry butts every year > and beating them when they were down most of the time? > > Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI > > Do we know if the $2 million is gross of the amount we have to pay > a Hawaii-type opponent? $500,000 or $600,000 these days. > > We pay that two years in a row and it works out to one million. > > We lose one home game every two years is 2 million, so the net > would seem to be a loss of $500,000 annually; not two million. > > Now, the additional TV exposure won't help us, we receive a % of > the SEC pie, and those are fixed contracts. > > We can't sell any more tickets than we do. > > We might sell some more t-shirts and hats. That licensing revenue > is very dependent on visibility and success. > > IIRC, alumni donations and booster donations do improve with > visibility and success. > > Long term, it generates additional applicants which, with a limited > number of admissions, should increase the average quality of our > students which (under the Harvard model) can mean more successful > alumni and a higher endowment. That's pretty long term thinking and > doesn't come with a guarantee. > > There is also the thought that denying UM-CG the revenue from this > game keeps it from building better athletic facilities (such as a > stadium), or funding other sports. We may derive a competitive > advantage by doing so. > > I'm a bit conflicted. I doubt it's a pure 2 million to UF by > adopting this path, but it may still be in our interests to do so. > > --Zeb > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
