Originally Posted by Chris R
13,000 tickets sold @$25 a piece = $325,000.
Concessions = $35,000
Misc: $10,000
So we're close to $400K. That's the entire budget (including coaches salaries) of one Olympic sport. Pick the one we drop - and we're not talking tennis or rowing because they ain't getting that kind of money to begin with.
But lets say we still did everything you're requesting and found the money to do it. Is all that effort worth improving our Non-Con SOS from #2 to #1?
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But it's not close to $400k. It's $370k minus the money paid to the visitors for the buy game minus the money it costs to operate UD arena for a game. Revenue doesn't keep other programs alive, profit does. That said, it's still a lot of money.
And I don't think it's in an effort to go from #2 non-con to #1. It's to move up from 105th overall (according to ESPN). We can stay at #2, but if we can move up from outside the top 100 overall it may be worth it. Obviously there isn't anything we can do about the conference schedule. Yes we've dealt with that forever, but the conference is getting weaker - which puts more pressure on the non-con.
All of that said, I'm not pretending to be smarter than Neil. I think he does a fantastic job. When I talk about Wright State (or other Ohio Schools) I'm in it more for the cross-town rivalry. I think it would be good for the program. With all of the great rivalries in college basketball and with so many of them location based, I think it's silly that we ignore the D1 program 10 miles from us.
