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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 290528, member: 289"] In the latest issue of Central New York Sports Magazine, there are a couple of articles on the state of the SU sports program. One is a 10 question Q&A section with Dr. Daryl Gross, our athletic director. The other is a article entitled "Will We See Another 'Golden Age' of SU Sports?" by a couple of professors, (one of sports management, one of sports business: can you be a professor of those things?) The article is pessimistic, citing 1987-2003 as our "golden age" because of the combined success of SU football and basketball over that period, which we haven't been able to sustain. They feel due to costs it will get harder and harder to be good in both sports. Quesiton #6 to Dr. Gross was about playing games in New York rather than the Dome. He defends moving games there by wanting to get national publicity and to get money to building up facilities and the football budget so we will recruit better and have better teams which will draw more fans for the game that will still be played in the Dome. He makes this statement: "I would tell you that playing one of those games at MetLife stadium will bring in money that is more than 70% of our football budget, which isn't the highest." That's on page 8. On Page 14 as a sidebar to the "Golden Age" article, there is a list of the revenue, expenditures and profit of the Big East basketball and football programs, (in 2010-11). Amazingly, we are fourth in the conference in football profit with +2.4 million, depsite the paultry crowds in the Dome, (I guess the Pinstripe Bowl helped). Connecticut was the only school in the red. (Frankly I smell some cooked books: only one Big East school lost money on football?) Pittsburgh and Rutgers broke even. Lousiville had the biggest profit at $10.1 million., West Virginia second with 6.7 million and USF $4.3 million. Our gross, (or Gross) revenues were also fourth. Louisville made $25.7, Pitt 21.3, West Virginia 20.0 and SU 18.8. Pitt spent the most, (als $21.3), Rutgers 19.2, UCONN 16.4 and SU fourth with $16.4. Consider this: if our revenue was $18.8 million and we will make 70% of our budget off the USC game, does that mean we will make $13.2 million from that game? [/QUOTE]

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