The Lions' Pride

So many things wrong here.

1. What gives anyone the impression BOB has any idea what is needed for the athletic department financially? He has never once managed a budget let alone one that is in excess of $100 million. That's not a knock on him as how many college or pro coaches know how to do that? They coach, and very, very few run an athletic department while coaching anymore. Money for football covers the entire athletic department. Do you really think Bob knows how much money is need to run soccer, woman's baskeball, etc., methods to bringing in that money?

2. There are a handful of schools who play major OOC rivalries on annual basis. FSU-UF, ND-USC, Stanford-ND, UM-ND, and thats about it. FSU-UF, well UF never plays anyone else OOC so a rivalry is easy. The others are all against ND who doesn't hav a conference schedule to worry about. All other rivalries are in conference which PSU and PItt are not.

3. Temple gives us three home games for every road game, once Pitt agrees to that great we can play them. Rutgers actually has a better record then Pitt since 2005.

4. ND wants to stay independent so it has no choice but to play around the country. The can't play just one conference or midwest schools because they would never be able to schedule an entire season or they would play four or five directional schools which NBC would never allow.

5. A home game with 100,000 fans brings in well over $6,000,000 in ticket sales alone. I am not including concessions which is probably at least another million. Add parking, people buying gear down town that weekend which the university gets. Plus the more home games the more money the Big Ten Network gets because of advertising or ABC contracts. Road games pay less because the home team has TV control, that's why games at Temple were hard to get because it was MAC controlled.

6. The new staff is costing alot more then the previous staff. As in a couple million more per year.

You can play Pitt every year, as long as you don't ever want to play, 'Bama, UVA, ND, BC, Syracuse, Miami, USC, or Oregon St. Those are all schools we have played OOC since we last player Pitt.

Give me a game against Texas, FSU, USC, that is great and gets us exposure. No one cares about Pitt and it costs way too much to the university financially.

be careful, BO'B
you may have bitten off more than you can chew.
I remember Pitt ABSOLUTELY OWNING us for a period of time in the 80s & 90s.
Im worried.

O$U troll no worries, nothing more to see there.

Sparty should worry about not becoming little sister again in their own state rather than coming to our board.

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Wow classy! I hope the average Sparty fan is a better class of citizen than you.

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