The university has spent money to start softball and lacrosse teams, to name two, since wrestling's demise. The entire conference has dumped wrestling. It was poorly attended and controversial in that the goal is to lose weight to compete in an easier weight class. This is a dangerous practice, to say the least. What? All this costs money to keep UF competitive in so many sports? I personally enjoyed watching softball, lacrosse, women's tennis and baseball have so much success this year. Just using lacrosse, how do you think they were in the NCAAs in their second year of existence? Our lacrosse facility makes Vanderbilt's soccer/lacrosse field look primitive. How did that happen? Do I really need to explain? The money sport is responsible for all of that! And that's just one sport. Yes, it's a money making concept. So live with it. Or, Vanderbilt has plenty of seats. Nor is it hot here in September.
Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Bob Parks, LLC 1517 Hunt Club Blvd Gallatin TN 37066 615-972-4239 615-816-4040 Sent from my iPhone On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:05 AM, "Cecilia" <[email protected]> wrote: > I also agree with Rob... and Helen. If the university chose not to spend > additional money on women's sports to achieve parity, that's not the fault of > Title IX... it's the fault of the university. > > Cee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Helen Huntley > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 4:04 PM > Subject: Re: [gatortalk] GatorTalk Poll: First game of the year > > I agree with Rob. It's not about how much UAA "needs," it's about how much it > can get. > > Title IX doesn't require the elimination of any men's teams. It requires > parity. Instead of choosing to spend some additional money on women's teams > to make spending fairer, some universities choose to transfer money from > men's sports to women's sports. > > > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Ed Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > 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 > > > > -- > Helen Huntley > (727) 823-3801 > www.helenhuntley.com > -- > 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
