Excitement Level for Football on a 1-10?

[BrunswickDawg]

Investing in men?s basketball is very smart and we have done that very well. We waste a ton of money on women?s basketball and that should change dramatically. We need every ounce of budget we have and losing the type of money we do on women?s basketball costs us in football and men?s basketball. If we cut the amount of losses in revenue in half for women?s basketball over the past decade we would have been able to fund about a big chunk of the south end zone enclosure that needs to happen without asking a donor for a dime.

I'm going to call BS on this one. Women's basketball lost $5m last year. Cut that in half, at $2.5 million a year gives you $25m in a decade. The north end zone cost $75m a decade ago (yes it's been that long now). You are easy looking at $125m for a similar product today. Maybe $150m. And guess what, cutting that $2.5m from wbb, while playing in a premier conference will put you back in the bottom of the league and probably take you right back to losing $5m a year when fans quit caring again. So in the end you save nothing.

Arguing for approaches like this is being pennywise, but pound foolish. Unless you eliminate programs (which we can't) you have to generate more revenue not cut the expenses. We have a bunch of poor mouth fans who complain about how expensive everything is when we have the cheapest tickets and donation requirements in the league. You want to run with the big boys then you have to pony up like the big boys. Football wants more money - then you better be ready to fork over $10k a year in donations to be eligible to even buy them like my UGA friends do. Not skyboxes - regular season tickets. And not the best seats either. Want a good tailgate spot and parking pass. Be ready to donate another $5k a year. Want a LFL spot. Pony the F up. We don't have the poorest fanbase in the SEC, we have the cheapest fanbase in the SEC and always have. We CARRIED OVER "lifetime" seats from the Dude for $5000 donations in the 1980s!!! Decisions like that are reason we can't compete.