There's no compelling argument or different plan. The administration views it as advertising, marketing and a value-added part of the college experience. In their minds it's a way to sell BGSU to kids outside the region and attempt to attract as much academic and athletic talent as they can. It's a way to keep alumni engaged after they've graduated. Mid-majors are banking that the intrinsic value of athletics is greater than the true value, which is demonstrated on sites like this. The game plan is to keep doing it until it's absolutely economically unfeasible to continue doing so.Flipper wrote:Don't kid yourself..Drawing 15k for anything after the Brandon fiasco and the awful teams we had in 2010 and 2011 was a minor miracle
One of the problems with turning your football program into a mid week TV show for a boutique audience of 50,000 is this. What do you do when your show gets cancelled? ESPN is a sinking ship...do you really want to overspend on one sport so you can make yourself attractive to a network that's bleeding money?
I've yet to hear a compelling argument for staying on the course we're on. I don't think the emotional needs of a few alums gets it. I don't think the notion that ESPN's exposure is worth it is compelling...how do we benefit from some guy in Calabasas, CA watching us play Kent? "Well...we've always done it this way" isn't a great argument either.
We're forcing people who don't give a crap to pay for a toy that doesn't serve their interests one iota. I don't care if they seem to be OK with it...or if they haven't figured out that they're being ripped off....They're being ripped off. We need to come up...and by "we" I mean everyone who isn't going to be one of those eventual 64 schools that get virtually all the money...a different game plan because we're on a Looney Toons path right now
And no one is forcing anyone to do anything. A little research brings up the breakdown of general fees at BG and who gets what. My guess is that parents who care about what their son or daughter's tuition dollars are going towards will take the time to do said research and potentially use that to guide decision making on where they attend college.
