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Post by section2 on Feb 20, 2013 15:03:30 GMT -5
Over the last 10 years, Siena has drawn almost exactly 100,000 fans per year to an average 15 home games. Average ticket price is appr oximately $16. Raise the average price by only $5 per seat and draw 10,000 per game, you add over $1.5 million per year, just in ticket sales.
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Post by hoopjunkie on Feb 20, 2013 15:18:57 GMT -5
If you played the quality teams in the C-7 every year, ticket proces would double and it'd be worth every penny. You'd have enought to pay a "name coach" and use the rest for recruiting.
Corporate sponsorship would come out of the woodworks for the schedule we'd be playing every year.
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Post by MTS on Feb 20, 2013 15:22:33 GMT -5
I wonder if this (C7 or more realistically A10) entices more attractive candidates next month when the job opens? This search will be fascinating..certainly more open than the last one.
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Post by bigsaintg on Feb 20, 2013 15:54:25 GMT -5
OF course it does
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Post by section2 on Feb 20, 2013 16:05:33 GMT -5
If you played the quality teams in the C-7 every year, ticket proces would double and it'd be worth every penny. You'd have enought to pay a "name coach" and use the rest for recruiting. Corporate sponsorship would come out of the woodworks for the schedule we'd be playing every year. I agree totally. I underestimated just to show the nay sayers how quickly the new revenue actually adds up.
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Post by airwolf on Feb 20, 2013 16:27:54 GMT -5
If you played the quality teams in the C-7 every year, ticket proces would double and it'd be worth every penny. You'd have enought to pay a "name coach" and use the rest for recruiting. Corporate sponsorship would come out of the woodworks for the schedule we'd be playing every year. I agree totally. I underestimated just to show the nay sayers how quickly the new revenue actually adds up. I bet some of the nay sayers work for the Admn.
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Post by section2 on Feb 20, 2013 16:35:42 GMT -5
I agree totally. I underestimated just to show the nay sayers how quickly the new revenue actually adds up. I bet some of the nay sayers work for the Admn. Actually, I doubt that. Most people who work for a living want to earn more. Growing the revenue is how they will do that. Now, they may not have the knowledge or courage to make it happen, that we will have to wait and see.
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Post by nolesaint on Feb 20, 2013 16:36:14 GMT -5
I agree totally. I underestimated just to show the nay sayers how quickly the new revenue actually adds up. I bet some of the nay sayers work for the Admn. Then they need to be replaced! Based on the strategic plan the admin should ALWAYS look at opportunities like this (if its real) with a nearly singular focus on how to make it happen. Of course that means more work for them and an extensive cost benefits analysis would need to be done but if Siena leadership truly believes in the strategic plan then their employees must portray these perceived opportunities in an extremely positive light and pursue them aggressively. Anyone in the admin not up to the job needs to go ASAP...
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Post by lmnop22 on Feb 20, 2013 18:14:45 GMT -5
You know Siena has 18 other Division I teams that need to be competitive as well....or do you expect to just have losing teams in every sport and a mediocre one in basketball if change conferences....Also, once the A10 is gutted for the C7 and Umass leaves for Big East...what makes the conference more appealing than the MAAC?
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Post by CellarRat on Feb 20, 2013 18:22:48 GMT -5
While it is true that people in the ad would love to make more money a move yo a higher conference would not necessarily mean that the extra revenue would go in their pockets.
A move to a higher conference will increase the quality of incoming recruits, get us a better coach. It will also may require that the talent change in the ad department.
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Post by Tony on Feb 20, 2013 18:24:55 GMT -5
You know Siena has 18 other Division I teams that need to be competitive as well....or do you expect to just have losing teams in every sport and a mediocre one in basketball if change conferences....Also, once the A10 is gutted for the C7 and Umass leaves for Big East...what makes the conference more appealing than the MAAC? hmmm lets see Qunny, Monmouth St Peters, Marist etc or St Joe's LaSalle, Richmond or VCU, Bonnies George Mason .. you tell me which one is better..all the remaining A10 teams have actual fan interest,,but I will say Siena needs to get its own house in order first
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Post by lmnop22 on Feb 20, 2013 18:33:45 GMT -5
VCU will be gone....plus the A10's TV contract deal will be completely different with the other teams leaving....if you think there are not clauses in there pertaining to what teams are in order for the maximum value that is at now you are crazy....plus you're not even thinking about the amount of support staff that needs to be hired in order to move to this level....remember your not hiring the same type of student-athlete if you want to compete at this level and each office can't be a one man shop
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Post by billmurray on Feb 20, 2013 18:46:40 GMT -5
You know Siena has 18 other Division I teams that need to be competitive as well....or do you expect to just have losing teams in every sport and a mediocre one in basketball if change conferences....Also, once the A10 is gutted for the C7 and Umass leaves for Big East...what makes the conference more appealing than the MAAC? hmmm lets see Qunny, Monmouth St Peters, Marist etc or St Joe's LaSalle, Richmond or VCU, Bonnies George Mason .. you tell me which one is better..all the remaining A10 teams have actual fan interest,,but I will say Siena needs to get its own house in order first Tony is on target, even with the top of the A-10 conference transfers out to the C-7, the A-10 would have 6 teams with kenpom rankings lower than 100 and only two with higher than 200 (three if Siena was included this year). The MAAC without Loyola and Siena but adding Quinny and Monmouth, would have no teams with a ranking below 100 and 4 team with a ranking higher than 250 and the best 4 teams ranked at 109, 119, 122, and 143. The new A-10 would be significantly better than the "new" MAAC.
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Post by lmnop22 on Feb 20, 2013 19:00:16 GMT -5
And those rankings would significantly drop once you add a Siena and George Mason and take away the teams that give them their strong strength of schedules....I think the league becomes worse than what the CAA was two years ago and Siena has a better chance of getting to the tourney every year in the MAAC....I mean why would someone like Gonzaga ever leave the WCC? All in all I really think the A10 is going to ask a school like Stony Brook before a school like Siena...better market and fully funded in all their sports...I don't think Siena is fully funded in all of theirs
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Post by section2 on Feb 20, 2013 19:04:58 GMT -5
You know Siena has 18 other Division I teams that need to be competitive as well....or do you expect to just have losing teams in every sport and a mediocre one in basketball if change conferences....Also, once the A10 is gutted for the C7 and Umass leaves for Big East...what makes the conference more appealing than the MAAC? This is the Siena hoops board, so I didn't feel the need to address every sport at Siena. However, , I would expect that every sport could benefit by moving up. Basketball is the only true revenue producing sport at Siena or the Catholic 7.
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