Masterofreality
04-18-2009, 05:04 PM
How about this?
According to Bill Koch's blog, SucKS only broke even on the Orange Bowl. They couldn't even sell out their allottment of tickets. In fact, they only sold less than 75% of them. No wonder they can't sell out their basketball barn. Last time I checked, there wasn't any Nancy Zimpher, Beelzebob backlash against the football program.
I thought that the Bore-Cats were supposed to be such a great story last year. Hell, to hear the talk show guys, the story was that SucKS would now be on the national map. Based upon this story, they were barely on the Cincinnati map.
Big East Football. It's fan.., errrrrrr.........not good.
Bearcats broke even at Orange BowlPosted by BKoch at 4/17/2009 2:02 AM EDT on Cincinnati.com
The Bearcats’ appearance in the Orange Bowl last season did not translate into big money for the UC athletic department. According to athletic director Mike Thomas, the school basically broke even from a financial standpoint.
“People have the perception that because you went to the Orange Bowl you have all kinds of loose change falling out of your pocket,” Thomas said. “For us, the Orange Bowl was about a wash. The best we could have done on the Orange Bowl if we could have sold out our whole allotment (of tickets) was probably another $600,000.
“With our comps and actually sold tickets we were at about 13,000.That would have left us with 4,500 tickets to sell to reach our 17,500 allotment. Even if we would have sold all of those, that would have added about another $600,000.”
Thomas said he didn’t know what to expect when UC first earned the Orange Bowl berth by winning the Big East championship.
“I was hopeful that we would make money on it, but I was going to feel good about the fact that we broke even," he said. "In the predicament that we are in financially, making additional dollars would have helped significantly, but on the flip side losing significant dollars would have made our challenge even greater Just the fact that we broke even, that was really a target for us. Anything above or beyond that was a goal, but we didn’t want to take a step backward there.”
According to Bill Koch's blog, SucKS only broke even on the Orange Bowl. They couldn't even sell out their allottment of tickets. In fact, they only sold less than 75% of them. No wonder they can't sell out their basketball barn. Last time I checked, there wasn't any Nancy Zimpher, Beelzebob backlash against the football program.
I thought that the Bore-Cats were supposed to be such a great story last year. Hell, to hear the talk show guys, the story was that SucKS would now be on the national map. Based upon this story, they were barely on the Cincinnati map.
Big East Football. It's fan.., errrrrrr.........not good.
Bearcats broke even at Orange BowlPosted by BKoch at 4/17/2009 2:02 AM EDT on Cincinnati.com
The Bearcats’ appearance in the Orange Bowl last season did not translate into big money for the UC athletic department. According to athletic director Mike Thomas, the school basically broke even from a financial standpoint.
“People have the perception that because you went to the Orange Bowl you have all kinds of loose change falling out of your pocket,” Thomas said. “For us, the Orange Bowl was about a wash. The best we could have done on the Orange Bowl if we could have sold out our whole allotment (of tickets) was probably another $600,000.
“With our comps and actually sold tickets we were at about 13,000.That would have left us with 4,500 tickets to sell to reach our 17,500 allotment. Even if we would have sold all of those, that would have added about another $600,000.”
Thomas said he didn’t know what to expect when UC first earned the Orange Bowl berth by winning the Big East championship.
“I was hopeful that we would make money on it, but I was going to feel good about the fact that we broke even," he said. "In the predicament that we are in financially, making additional dollars would have helped significantly, but on the flip side losing significant dollars would have made our challenge even greater Just the fact that we broke even, that was really a target for us. Anything above or beyond that was a goal, but we didn’t want to take a step backward there.”