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[QUOTE="Cuse12, post: 5319991, member: 6808"]
I will preface this post with saying, I do not know anything other then what I read here, so this post is based off of comments shared here.

The sentiments shared are that we are stuck between a rock and a hard place with Red’s contract. Apparently there is potentially guaranteed money and we would have to buy his contract out, and little ole Syracuse just can’t afford such a thing. Firstly, if that’s the case what a horrible negotiation on cuse’s part. We weren’t competing with a single other power school in the country for Red, why would we guarantee anything? What leg does Red have to stand on to counter that? I digress.

So let’s say that’s the case, and we assume Reds making $2M a year (guessing). Make it make sense that we are okay with losing 2-3x coaches salary (or more) in revenue this year in just stadium sales. (Not counting apparel sale losses etc.) So that’s okay because we don’t have to buy out the contract for maybe half that? (Again all a guess).

Easy math, average seat price is $40 when we are “good”, if we lose 10k tix sales a game due to lack of performance. 10 home games (easy math again) and that’s $4M right there, then add on food/drink sales. That’s just 10 games for easy math.

Am I completely off base here? Make me eat crow if what I am saying makes no sense. It just seems odd that we would be okay with losing that much revenue this year and next (we won’t have fans back until the team proves it so it could take till late January next year to even start grabbing decent crowds, we are already giving up millions in revenue if we continue down this path for next season)
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