I appreciate your argument, but I don't know if the AA could break even with 6.5 games. We turn a profit (one of very few universities) but it is not relatively that large. I believe the NCAA added an extra game precisely because it lowered the amount of money the teams were losing. (I believe that the reason that universities are willing to subsidize sporting programs is because they figure that the subsidy is a marketing expense and will pay for itself with additional student demand.)
Jerry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Alexander Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gatortalk] GatorTalk Poll: First game of the year 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 Sent from my iPhone 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rob Alexander > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 3:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gatortalk] GatorTalk Poll: First game of the year > > 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 > > > Sent from my iPhone > > 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 >> >> -- >> 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 >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel > (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > 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 > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > 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 > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- 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 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- 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 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
