If HC got a payday like that for playing a low-level D1 program like UConn in front of 18,782, what the heck was Fordham paid for playing Nebraska in Lincoln in front of 85,938?
Post by stagthomas on Sept 5, 2021 12:40:16 GMT -5
Remind me how much football was losing per year? Seems like one or two games like this at the start of the season would help offset any deficit. That’s why we should never go cheap on our basketball staff either because we could always make it up with an away game at UNC or Duke to start the season.
Fordham battles early before getting blown out 52-7 by Nebraska
The Rams were on even terms with the Huskers for a while, got the experience of playing in one of the cathedrals of college football and pocketed a $500,000 guarantee...
Let's assume the average ticket price is $30. That's about $570,000 in ticket sales.
Sure they make some money off concessions and parking too, but they also have to pay all of their game day staff, plus their head coach is making $1.6 million (not to mention the dozen or so coaches that football requires).
I can't imagine the TV contract pays them an enormous amount. Not that many eyeballs are going to watch UConn vs. Holy Cross.
Plus, I suspect a portion of the income also goes to basketball so they can pay their players (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
I can't believe they would hand the majority of that money over to their opponent, would they? They aren't Alabama, Michigan, Texas, Penn State ... who draw enormous crowds and are bringing in boatloads of money.
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Post by reindeerfan on Sept 5, 2021 22:02:57 GMT -5
My view starting football was a mistake. We should have focused those resources on Hockey and Lax. When the football spend got to be too high it caused the board to also kill hockey. That was very unfortunate. We are too small a University to support football financially.
My view starting football was a mistake. We should have focused those resources on Hockey and Lax. When the football spend got to be too high it caused the board to also kill hockey. That was very unfortunate. We are too small a University to support football financially.
Totally agree. Football at a school like ours is a waste of money. A school like FU should have a hockey program. The problem is ice time.
If we had some vision, we would have kept hockey and the new CC project would have a totally different scope.
Could have built the CC as a dual arena, similar to QU, HC or Army.
Peoples United Center opened in 2007. $52 million ($64.9 million in 2020 dollars)
Approx. 64 Million was one of the proposals for the deluxe version of our new building.
A dual arena would have been within reach.
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My view starting football was a mistake. We should have focused those resources on Hockey and Lax. When the football spend got to be too high it caused the board to also kill hockey. That was very unfortunate. We are too small a University to support football financially.
Totally agree. Football at a school like ours is a waste of money. A school like FU should have a hockey program. The problem is ice time.
If we had some vision, we would have kept hockey and the new CC project would have a totally different scope.
Could have built the CC as a dual arena, similar to QU, HC or Army.
Peoples United Center opened in 2007. $52 million ($64.9 million in 2020 dollars)
Approx. 64 Million was one of the proposals for the deluxe version of our new building.
A dual arena would have been within reach.
All good points. And where hockey (and lacrosse for that matter) distinguish themselves from football at a small school like ours is that under the right circumstances, competing for a national title at the highest level of the sport is actually possible. Just look at the recent example of Quinnipiac reaching the Frozen Four championship game a few years ago (and losing to Yale no less) as an example. OTOH Sacred Heart is now pretty good in football and yes drew 4,200 fans at their game Saturday. But that doesn't really mean they can nor will they ever be able to compete with Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame, etc. So yeah, the overall view from the outside about Stag athletics might currently be more positive if indeed they had elected to stay with the hockey program many years ago.
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My view starting football was a mistake. We should have focused those resources on Hockey and Lax. When the football spend got to be too high it caused the board to also kill hockey. That was very unfortunate. We are too small a University to support football financially.
Please explain in what way we’re too small since our undergraduate enrollment is very similar to Holy Cross.
Not sure how or why but interestingly in addition to what Fairfield Athletics has, Sacred Heart University also has Football, Ice Hockey (M&W), Track & Field (M&W), Fencing (M&W), Wrestling (M&W), Bowling (W), Dance (W), Equestrian (W), Rugby (W), and Volleyball (M).
My view starting football was a mistake. We should have focused those resources on Hockey and Lax. When the football spend got to be too high it caused the board to also kill hockey. That was very unfortunate. We are too small a University to support football financially.
Please explain in what way we’re too small since our undergraduate enrollment is very similar to Holy Cross.
Fair point about the similar sizes of the two schools. However in regards to HC Football and what could have become true at Fairfield regarding the sport, I do think the long, long and sometimes successful history of the Crusaders plus the fact they have a real stadium on campus means they were never going to dump the program even if there were some negative (financial) aspects hindering progress. Anyway, if we beat them in hoops again this season I will be happy.