2010/11 HL News
Jun 26, 2010 11:56:45 GMT -5
Post by Black PantherU on Jun 26, 2010 11:56:45 GMT -5
I knew I wasn't crazy. I posed the same question to Valpo fans on their board and they practically killed me for it, and attacked our team's character (Milwaukee):
valpofans.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=valposports&action=display&thread=4175&page=4
As for our problems which are above and I thought I should shed light from the program on, the Journal-Sentinel's article had nothing new in it, it was in our minds a simple attempt to smack us down for the good of Marquette. I'm sure you guys experience the same favoritism from local media towards Dayton, so you'll understand.
It was their answer to Rob Demovsky's GB Press-Gazette report on the state of the Phoenix athletic department, which got a lot of praise from people all over Wisconsin. His article was great, the JS' was dogshit.
We do have a large budget deficit, which is tied very closely to the men's basketball arena. Since 03-04, we've played exclusively at the U.S. Cellular Arena downtown, about 3 miles south of campus and a 15-minute bus ride through the East Side. Our lease is for 6 figures a year; we fans don't know the exact number, but we've heard as little as 250,000 and as much as 500,000 that we pay the Wisconsin Center District that owns the Cell. The WCD spends most of its money into the Milwaukee Theater, which they built fairly recently and can't get crap for acts because the fact of the matter is we have several similar-size facilities in the city that get acts first. This is money that could be going into updating the Cell, as they promised us, but no.
So we go half a million in the hole immediately, then pay $3 off of EVERY TICKET we sell to the WCD. For a $10 ticket, we only make seven bucks. It's infuriating. Plus, with all the revenue lost for parking, concessions, merchandise (that the bookstore makes, a travesty in itself) and money we COULD be making by having our own facility on-campus, we're in the situation we're in.
If the Journal-Sentinel article were any good, it would have highlighted the problem: build the arena, fix the deficit. Kind of like Save the Cheerleader, Save the World.
Fortunately, we students recognized the problems financially as well as physically getting hundreds of students down there. We voted in a $25 fee to build an arena for men's basketball on campus. That's $25 per student, per semester at 32,000 students for the next 25 years. For you math whizzes out there, if we don't increase our size (we're not decreasing ever), that's $40 million just from the students toward the arena. The UW Board of Regents approved it a couple weeks ago, so it starts in fall. Our athletics development office (ONE PERSON) is setting things up for the lead gift campaign right now. The hope is to raise enough money to build a 6,000 seat arena that can be expanded to 8,000 and completely blow away every basketball arena in the state, including the homes of the Phoenix, Bucks, Golden Eagles, and Badgers.
Of course, I can't confirm the plans themselves, just the money students are paying
valpofans.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=valposports&action=display&thread=4175&page=4
As for our problems which are above and I thought I should shed light from the program on, the Journal-Sentinel's article had nothing new in it, it was in our minds a simple attempt to smack us down for the good of Marquette. I'm sure you guys experience the same favoritism from local media towards Dayton, so you'll understand.
It was their answer to Rob Demovsky's GB Press-Gazette report on the state of the Phoenix athletic department, which got a lot of praise from people all over Wisconsin. His article was great, the JS' was dogshit.
We do have a large budget deficit, which is tied very closely to the men's basketball arena. Since 03-04, we've played exclusively at the U.S. Cellular Arena downtown, about 3 miles south of campus and a 15-minute bus ride through the East Side. Our lease is for 6 figures a year; we fans don't know the exact number, but we've heard as little as 250,000 and as much as 500,000 that we pay the Wisconsin Center District that owns the Cell. The WCD spends most of its money into the Milwaukee Theater, which they built fairly recently and can't get crap for acts because the fact of the matter is we have several similar-size facilities in the city that get acts first. This is money that could be going into updating the Cell, as they promised us, but no.
So we go half a million in the hole immediately, then pay $3 off of EVERY TICKET we sell to the WCD. For a $10 ticket, we only make seven bucks. It's infuriating. Plus, with all the revenue lost for parking, concessions, merchandise (that the bookstore makes, a travesty in itself) and money we COULD be making by having our own facility on-campus, we're in the situation we're in.
If the Journal-Sentinel article were any good, it would have highlighted the problem: build the arena, fix the deficit. Kind of like Save the Cheerleader, Save the World.
Fortunately, we students recognized the problems financially as well as physically getting hundreds of students down there. We voted in a $25 fee to build an arena for men's basketball on campus. That's $25 per student, per semester at 32,000 students for the next 25 years. For you math whizzes out there, if we don't increase our size (we're not decreasing ever), that's $40 million just from the students toward the arena. The UW Board of Regents approved it a couple weeks ago, so it starts in fall. Our athletics development office (ONE PERSON) is setting things up for the lead gift campaign right now. The hope is to raise enough money to build a 6,000 seat arena that can be expanded to 8,000 and completely blow away every basketball arena in the state, including the homes of the Phoenix, Bucks, Golden Eagles, and Badgers.
Of course, I can't confirm the plans themselves, just the money students are paying