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If LSU is a "business" how much money does soccer & softball
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:19 am
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:19 am
generate? IMO those are some prime parking areas to be used at $40/car.
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Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:19 am to TheoreticalTiger
Title 9
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:22 am to PRK
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Title 9
but wait... some people are saying LSU is a business. Also, what does Title 9 have to say that moving soccer field and softball park to the distant areas of campus to allow the higher revenue events to use that space for parking.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:22 am to TheoreticalTiger
Umm, they lose money. I think LSU baseball and football are the only sports that make money.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:25 am to TheoreticalTiger
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but wait... some people are saying LSU is a business.
It is. And businesses work in the context of government regulation. In order to have a ridiculously profitable football team, we build amazing facilities, for example, for the softball team. How much money they generate is irrelevant. And since your subject question was "how much money does soccer & softball generate"...
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:25 am to TheoreticalTiger
This is a stupid argument. By federal law the University must have these sports. (well not specific sports but a certain amount of women scholorships)
Of course they don't make money.
Of course they don't make money.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:26 am to PRK
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How much money they generate is irrelevant.
This and Title 9...can't have football if you don't follow all of the "rules"
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:29 am to TheoreticalTiger
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moving soccer field and softball park to the distant areas of campus
Pretty sure that's where they are now. Not sure where you would recommend moving them.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:30 am to GeorgeTheGreek
Mens track doesn't make money either
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:31 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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This is a stupid argument. By federal law the University must have these sports. (well not specific sports but a certain amount of women scholorships)
And you'd be out of a job.
But lets not let government intrusion blind you from LSU Athletics so called "business".
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:34 am to Golfer
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But lets not let government intrusion blind you from LSU Athletics so called "business".
The point is LSU athletics must work within the confines of the federal govt, so if you eliminate any women's sport, you'd be eliminating a money losing program but you'd also be breaking the law.
Thus this is a dumb argument.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:35 am to Duckie
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LSU baseball and football are the only sports that make money.
Actually, basketball makes more than baseball.
It's all about TV contracts.
Men's basketball at worst breaks even because of their split of the SEC TV money. They make a pile of money if they go to the Tourney.
Baseball makes money if it goes to the postseason.
We're one of very few schools to actually have three revenue generating sports.
This information was garnered from a lunch with Mark Ewing.
ETA .. This was pre New Alex Box. Might make more now.
This post was edited on 11/17/10 at 10:38 am
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:36 am to jmath23lsu
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Pretty sure that's where they are now. Not sure where you would recommend moving them.
You see where the $20 parking areas are located on the most distant parts of the campus? Move them there.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:42 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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The point is LSU athletics must work within the confines of the federal govt, so if you eliminate any women's sport, you'd be eliminating a money losing program but you'd also be breaking the law.
No one wants to eliminate those sports (well yea I actually do) but I am just implying to move them to areas of campus that free up space for football fans. This could help offset the money that the ladies and crappy other sports lose.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:44 am to TheoreticalTiger
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the most distant parts of the campus? Move them there
tearing down an already existing structure and having to rebuild it at a new location costs big bucks, therefore, not good business.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:52 am to Pele
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tearing down an already existing structure and having to rebuild it at a new location costs big bucks, therefore, not good business.
exactly... there was poor planning for both the parking areas vs. softball field placements. Also, the soccer field which is even in a more primed area is hardly a facility IMO and would cost very little to move as opposed to the money they could make from football parking.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:52 am to TheoreticalTiger
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but wait... some people are saying LSU is a business.
It is. Look at Title 9 as a government restriction they don't have any control over.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:54 am to Tigergreg
quote:I did look at it. It says nothing about where to place the facilities.
It is. Look at Title 9 as a government restriction they don't have any control over.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:57 am to TheoreticalTiger
Gender based arse wipe. Yes football fuels the financial beast, but those other sports are a part of the university athletic universe. It's lime that commercial says -- We are NCAA athletes, and most of us will be doing something otyher than sports after we graduate.
Posted on 11/17/10 at 11:05 am to TheoreticalTiger
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I am just implying to move them to areas of campus that free up space for football fans.
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TheoreticalTiger
Name fits.
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