It wasn't money that killed the wrestling team, it was Title IX
On 7/9/2011 9:33 AM, Rob Alexander wrote:
That's a red herring. We have seven home games now. Before the NCAA added an
extra game to the schedule, Foley always said we must have six home games a
year to make a profit. Now we have added another game and he uses the same
argument about needing seven home games a year. If we made a large profit with
six home games, and we did, then we would make a larger profit with 6.5 home
games a year. Of course, we make even more with seven, but the point is that we
were already past the number of home games we 'needed' before.
However many or few games we have, and no matter how financially sound we are,
Foley is always going to put making another dollar above the fans' enjoyment of
the sport itself. (See discussion of early home games at noon.) If the NCAA
added two more games a year, Foley would rush out and schedule two more
patsies, and he'd say we 'must' have nine home games a year.
I know money is important to all our athletic programs (though it didn't save
the wrestling team), but it begs the question... are the sports there to earn
money, or is the money earned to support the sports?
Rob
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On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Jerry Belloit<[email protected]> wrote:
I would too. The problem Foley has is that we have to find good teams that
will not want a home-and-home. Good teams will demand that. Major teams
need the six home games for revenue. Only teams that do not have a great
revenue source from home games can afford to play away games without a
return home game. That being said, I wonder why Miami doesn't play us here
every year. They don't do that well with their home games, do they?
Jerry
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I'd be much more interested in playing two-game home and home series with
different well-respected teams that we rarely would play otherwise. Although
I understand the reasons for the two warm-up games every year, as a fan of
the sport, I'd rather see good games.
Rob
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On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:11 PM, John Vega<[email protected]> wrote:
On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:02 PM, mail.bobparks.com wrote:
One word: recruiting.
they'll have trouble paying their recruiting coordinators if they can't
sell any tickets
soon UM football will be the functional equivalent of similarly sized
private schools
How is St. John's football team doing these days?
-Zeb
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