OCS mention - St. Pete Times

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USF will not build a stadium until they have to.  It makes no fianancial sense to do it. If the morons at the Citrus Bowl had treated UCF with some semblence of partnership it is possible that UCF would still be playing at The Dump.  In the long run I don't care what you say about BHNS it is a world better than the Citrus Bowl. Put USF in the same dilemna right now and you would be facing down your own version of The Wok.

 

If they are financially forced to do it USF would build a BHNS type stadium on campus.  There is no money to build anything better.  Otherwise they will stay where they are.  Partnering to help build a different off campus stadium is just plain stupid. 

 

I beleive Baylor has one of the biggest enodowments in the country and 100s of years of rich oil field alumni.  That type of building is a pipedream for USF

 

USF has a similar deal, if not worse, then what UCF had with the Citrus Bowl.

 

We get almost nothing in parking revenue

We get zero concession revenue

We get a marginal amount of $$ from ticket sales

We have to bus all of our gear from USF to RayJay and back every game, our home games are basically road games in this respect

We get zero revenue from non-football related events held at RayJay

We get zero alumni/fans on campus for home game

Our rental fees are more per year then what we would be paying to repay construction loan/bonds on our own stadium (this is what I was told, correct if wrong)

Our stadium is Rutgers red

The Buc's dictate to us what we can and can not do (no live animals, you can't have games on these dates, etc.)

We have to pay a fortune to have the grass fixed from our games to make it NFL worthy for the Bucs.

We have to pay a fortune to have the Bucs paint the field and hang our banners.

Our tailgate hours/rules are dictated by the TSA/Bucs.

We have to pay the TPD and HCSO for security vs. using our own police dept. which is sitting back on campus doing nothing.

Its virtually impossible to get traditions going 15 miles off campus

 

 

An OCS would allow us to bring in the following revenue streams...

 

100% of concession revenue

100% of parking revenue

100% of ticket sales

100% of non-football related event revenue

 

Also we would be able to draw extra $$ from on campus dining halls, the Marshall Center food court, and Beefs. We would also likely see a spike in merchandise sales at the book store and Bulls Outfitter with everyone on campus vs. 15 miles away at Big Red.

 

We could also get some real student and alumni based on-campus traditions going... like a real Bulls walk and such.

 

The only down side to building an OCS would be paying for the construction of the stadium... I see this as a minor deal since our revenue would more then pay for it and we would still be able to turn a profit.

Edited August 27, 2013 by Bubba Bull

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