MIR will likely come along at 3 a.m tomorrow to give us the real scoop
LOL, I slept for literally 90 minutes last night, no chance of seeing 3 tonight.
-The $2.2 million dollars that K-State will net, in my opinion, isn't worth the damage to the fan base and local economy. I get what Kurtz is saying but the town and university have an obligation to each other, especially in places like Manhattan, Stillwater, Ames, Morgantown, Pullman, etc. In addition to this that $2.2 million dollar net is likely a little high given this would have been the first game that replaced non premium seats with bigly premium seats.
-Our budget in non COVID years is now over $80 million dollars, $83 in 2018-19 iirc. There are places and ways that the $2.2 million could really go a long way. You heard about those athletic departments cutting programs, not K-State of course because we don't have extra sports to cut, anyway those programs cut generally saved $2-$3 million annually depending on the school, Iowa saved $2 mil by cutting their programs, Stanford saved just over $3 mil. For us that money is just going into the general fund, nothing is really being saved. To me, the juice is definitely not worth the squeeze, especially when you're trying to get season ticket holders back, cutting that game doesn't help. I do wonder if some of the huge money donors leaned on gene to do this, we have a lot of money coming from Texas to the athletic department, it's worth a thought.
-Jerry gets the money from concessions and parking which is a rough ridin' ton of money. The money we are getting, outside of the ticket revenue is essentially from the title sponsorship of the game. We don't have our own third tier media rights anymore when the conference started the ESPN+ deal, essentially all the teams in that deal split that money. FYI our third tier football game will be the Southern Illinois game, The oscar Bowl! Anyway, this game won't net Jerry as much money as the other opening week classics, this will be more like those Tech vs. Baylor games they played there that had like 35,000 fans there. He'll still make money though, crap they have boxing matches in there.