Got an email from the Meadowlands
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I wonder if people on the board would now be more supportive of a Meadowlands game once a year given the financial crunch the athletic dept is in. Not sure what the economics are of holding a game there vs at Rutgers - but if it could marginally add another $1.5-$2m or more in revenue. We would have to consider that at this point. That alone could pay for a new coach, upgraded staff, facility improvements, etc.
If we still had 6 other home games and it was still more profitable with bussing 6-8k students to the game, then yes I would support it.
NO. The only games worth moving are conference games that all need to be played on campus. In addition, I was at the Army game at Met. It sucked. Even if there weren't hurricane force winds blowing away tents and tarps, the tailgating atmosphere was terrible. Season ticket holders were given the option of buying seats similar to what they had at HPSS, if they were willing to pay 2.5x as much for them. Those who did not were pushed to the endzones. The stadium is sterile and boring.
RU athletics is not in a "financial crunch". It is a myth perpetuated mostly by this board and the supposed "insiders". The reality is the insiders get this info because it is floated behind the scenes by the administration. How does the administration benefit? It conveniently gets them off the hook from properly supporting the football program by paying market rates for a good coaching staff. The fact is neither the president nor most on the BOG want to spend the money it takes to win and have even given some indications that they are actually offended that a football coach makes so much money. Until that leadership philosophy changes we will never compete in this league.
This.
Elmer Fudd taking the RU program down to pitiful levels can unfortunately only help Cuse in their appeal to local football fans in attending this game.
Two years ago something like half of the athletics budget came from non-athletics revenue. Yes - its a crunch. You should be happy that it took until we got into the Big Ten for the school to start demanding that we not spend so much more than we bring in - because basically no other BCS schools tolerates nearly the level of deficit spending that RU does from its athletics programs.
With Dynamic pricing I don't think there is much of a gap. We gouged the crap out of OSU for every dime we could.
Even without dynamic pricing the gap wasn't as large as Kid2008 expected.
In 2010, Rutgers was paid $2.7MM to play Army at the Meadowlands. Rutgers claimed they would have netted $1.5 MM if the game was at Rutgers Stadium, so Rutgers got an additional $1.2MM to play at the Meadowlands. But this was really an artificial profit. Ticket and parking prices for the Army game were higher than prices in Piscataway. If fans were willing to pay the higher price, then why not just charge the higher price for games in Piscataway (which is what Rutgers does now).
Today, with higher ticket and parking prices, Rutgers probably nets about $2.2 MM per home game (not counting donations). So the net increase to play a team like Army at the Meadowlands would only be about $500K.
If you add in the dynamic pricing premium for a game against an OSU or PSU, Rutgers probably clears $2.7 MM per game. So to move a high profile game to the Meadowlands would require an even bigger payout to make it worthwhile. The Meadowlands has an additional 30,000 seats to sell to finance a bigger payout. But they'd have to do it without increasing prices beyond what the seats would cost in Piscataway (if fans are willing to pay higher prices for the game, Rutgers can just sell tickets for the higher price in Piscataway).
Syracuse must be really desperate for money if they keep agreeing to get knocked out by national powers on TV in front of 10 of their fans 5 hours away from campus.
The state should not allow it. Typical the Jets/Giants given unbelievable tax breaks but it's ok for them to screw our STATE school
Just saying
Just saying
1) No thanks
2) I think this may have been the last game of the "original" deal; pretty sure it was the second series, like 6-games, that they've cancelled
2) I think this may have been the last game of the "original" deal; pretty sure it was the second series, like 6-games, that they've cancelled