(06-29-2019 10:49 PM)HarborPointe Wrote:  

(06-29-2019 10:14 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  Expenses has nothing to do with revenues when you are complaining about how good the good old days were and the revenues you brought in.

No, no, no, a thousand times “no.” If revenue increases aren’t keeping pace with the cost of doing business, you’re absolutely moving backwards. That’s not even debatable.

I honestly don’t have the answer on ticket sales because the only tickets I keep up with are my own, but you are right in that we quit distributing as many discounted & comp tickets a few years back. I will say this: If we’re still selling the same number of tickets, a lot more people these days are choosing not to use them. Attendance has declined and the atmosphere has gone significantly southward since our ACC “pals” left us behind.

Quote: I doubt if fans give more to offset a TV package.

So if an athletic dept. is used to “x” dollars in TV revenue each year, and that figure suddenly becomes “x - y,” you don’t think the administrators are going to reach out to high-level donors & ask them to help offset that loss?

Frankly, this whole discussion is the conference mate version of mansplaining. Don’t try to tell us what we’ve been through and try to justify your version of what we ought to think about what we’ve been through when WE are the ones who have actually been there and done that and actually went through it.

Bold 1. You will not read one post before you complaining about keeping up with inflation...ZIP! They were complaints about NCAA/TV dollars. Complaints about ticket dollars. Complaints about donations. Not one about inflation...

if you need to know that I gave you the numbers. You do the math.

Bold 2. Prove it? Prove to us that S. Miss asked fans to donate more to cover the drop in TV dollars?

2016 avg attendance 28,587 ($3,476,155)
2010 avg attendance 29,400 ($2,888,213)

Going by those numbers and we have no ideal if more students went to the games in either year....the 2016 ticket avg was almost $5 higher than 2010

What cost $2888213 in 2010 would cost $3267057.56 in 2016.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2016 and 2010,
they would cost you $2888213 and $2559078.96 respectively.
2016 avg 28,587 ...tickets sold $3,476,155 more than covers inflation compared to 2010


So going by the lowest and the highest and inflation 2016 is still more than 2010
https://westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi

2005 avg 27,902...tickets sold $1,825,322
2016 avg 28,587 ...tickets sold $3,476,155 more than covers inflation

What cost $1825322 in 2005 would cost $2285253.78 in 2016.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2016 and 2005,
they would cost you $1825322 and $1435819.16 respectively.

Inflation is just one variable that I said you were ignoring. Increases in expense aren’t limited to that. At the very least, there are additional coaching positions and cost-of-attendance stipends to fund now. There’s no denying it takes more money to run an athletic program today than it did in 2013. Meanwhile, the checks from our conference have decreased greatly. That is regression.

That donors would be asked to dig deeper into their pockets when other income streams dry up is beyond obvious. That aside, even if donations are up, if that money is simply going to fill a new hole elsewhere, you’re treading water at best.

Hey, if you’ve caught some people referencing incorrect trends on specific income streams, congratulations. 10 internet points to you. It doesn’t change the fact that Marshall & Southern Miss fans are unhappy for numerous other related reasons & rightly so.