I wish I'd read this before replying myself. I could have just said... 'yeah, what she said'. :-)
Rob Sent from my iPad On Jul 9, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Helen Huntley <hhsga...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Rob. It's not about how much UAA "needs," it's about how much it > can get. > > Title IX doesn't require the elimination of any men's teams. It requires > parity. Instead of choosing to spend some additional money on women's teams > to make spending fairer, some universities choose to transfer money from > men's sports to women's sports. > > > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Ed Williamson <bucksho...@hotmail.com> wrote: > It wasn't money that killed the wrestling team, it was Title IX > > > On 7/9/2011 9:33 AM, Rob Alexander wrote: > That's a red herring. We have seven home games now. Before the NCAA added an > extra game to the schedule, Foley always said we must have six home games a > year to make a profit. Now we have added another game and he uses the same > argument about needing seven home games a year. If we made a large profit > with six home games, and we did, then we would make a larger profit with 6.5 > home games a year. Of course, we make even more with seven, but the point is > that we were already past the number of home games we 'needed' before. > > However many or few games we have, and no matter how financially sound we > are, Foley is always going to put making another dollar above the fans' > enjoyment of the sport itself. (See discussion of early home games at noon.) > If the NCAA added two more games a year, Foley would rush out and schedule > two more patsies, and he'd say we 'must' have nine home games a year. > > I know money is important to all our athletic programs (though it didn't save > the wrestling team), but it begs the question... are the sports there to earn > money, or is the money earned to support the sports? > > Rob > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 7:13 AM, Jerry Belloit<bell...@clarion.edu> wrote: > > I would too. The problem Foley has is that we have to find good teams that > will not want a home-and-home. Good teams will demand that. Major teams > need the six home games for revenue. Only teams that do not have a great > revenue source from home games can afford to play away games without a > return home game. That being said, I wonder why Miami doesn't play us here > every year. They don't do that well with their home games, do they? > > Jerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatortalk@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Rob Alexander > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 3:44 PM > To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [gatortalk] GatorTalk Poll: First game of the year > > I'd be much more interested in playing two-game home and home series with > different well-respected teams that we rarely would play otherwise. Although > I understand the reasons for the two warm-up games every year, as a fan of > the sport, I'd rather see good games. > > Rob > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:11 PM, John Vega<zebu...@gate.net> wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2011, at 2:02 PM, mail.bobparks.com wrote: > > One word: recruiting. > they'll have trouble paying their recruiting coordinators if they can't > sell any tickets > soon UM football will be the functional equivalent of similarly sized > private schools > How is St. John's football team doing these days? > > -Zeb > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel > (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve > Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > > > > -- > Helen Huntley > (727) 823-3801 > www.helenhuntley.com > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
