Instead of Dumping Money Into A Stadium

[WoolyBully]

1 hour ago, Brad said:

Right or wrong, logic beats emotion.

Oh no it does not! We've built entire industries on emotion...everything from Talk Radio to I'net message boards. We like to pretend that we're rational animals and always slaved to the grey matter, but it's that thump-thump-thump organ in our collective chest that is the real shot caller. How hard do you think it is to extract folding green for [insert athletic department wish list here] using logic (how would we quantify that? what sort of ROI? I don’t know.) as opposed to tapping some sort of emotional connection. Marketing. Advertising budgets. Research. It's all about how to manipulate your emotional connection to variable X, 'cause we know that relying on our logic/reason does not move the needle. Logic will not fill a stadium with season ticket holders. Logic will not pry open wallets. Logic will not express dismay after a loss to a vastly superior team. Perhaps you remember the old Sam Kinison ‘In Love Nine Times’ routine? Yeah, that’s us. And it will be us for the foreseeable future.

 

  

 

[Brad]

Thanks Wooly, I'll be more specific emotional. 

[The Sheriff]

When we hired Strong... we could have had Lane and/or Leach (everyone's favorite Pirate) - if I recall correctly.

[DontPushMe]

Instead of dumping money into a stadium we should shut down the football program and focus on other things. It's a failure from top to bottom and the sunk costs that got us here aren't worth chasing anymore. 

[mj796]

17 minutes ago, DontPushMe said:

Instead of dumping money into a stadium we should shut down the football program and focus on other things. It's a failure from top to bottom and the sunk costs that got us here aren't worth chasing anymore. 

Well this is enlightening!

[Bull Matrix]

26 minutes ago, The Sheriff said:

When we hired Strong... we could have had Lane and/or Leach (everyone's favorite Pirate) - if I recall correctly.

What a miss 

19 minutes ago, DontPushMe said:

Instead of dumping money into a stadium we should shut down the football program and focus on other things. It's a failure from top to bottom and the sunk costs that got us here aren't worth chasing anymore. 

How are your UL Cards doing this season?

[slick1ru2]

3 hours ago, Jim Johnson said:

So you think a good head coach at Vanderbilt or Arizona State or Purdue will leave their conference to go to Coastal Carolina or Fresno State or USF?

 

They go where the money is don’t they?

[Jim Johnson]

Just now, slick1ru2 said:

They go where the money is don’t they?

And we can pay more with out $8 million per year TV deal than the 30-40-60 million these other conferences pay?  Are you daft?

[slick1ru2]

Just now, Jim Johnson said:

And we can pay more with out $8 million per year TV deal than the 30-40-60 million these other conferences pay?  Are you daft?

Where’s the $100m plus for the stadium coming from?

[Bull Matrix]

4 minutes ago, slick1ru2 said:

They go where the money is don’t they?

 Can’t blame them for that. But now that the 12 team playoff format is on the horizon things may change….