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[QUOTE="Pyle, post: 1862684, member: 137"]
I think you're wrong. The fact is these large state schools have to divulge all of their financials and those pesky academic types, you know anyone who doesn't play sports or works in the AD, get really testy about spending the university's money to support athletics. Rutgers is a perfect example, they get enough money but can't manage their budget and end up $25 million in the hole every year. Fact is the big difference between us and a school like Iowa is the number of seats in the stadium, number of alumni within a close distance, more donors, etc. Iowa looks like they average something like 20-25k more people per game than we do. That's not Big Blue or the Tide, that's the Hawkeyes. So 25k more people at a modest $35 per ticket equates to about $875,000 more per game at the turnstiles alone. Add in concessions, merchandise sales, parking, etc and I think you can see how a school like Iowa easily makes $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 more per season that Syracuse. We need the fans back.
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