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Texas Rio Grande Valley study supports move to FBS football:
https://www.themonitor.com/sports/utrgv_vaqueros/article_2aa53d18-9aba-11e8-9d46-1ba23372cff8.html
The tv money in football is too good
Each school in the MAC gets $700k a year from the TV deal. For comparison, UB is getting $1.8 Million for ONE GAME at Ohio State.
The TV money is horrible! And it is only that high because of the weeknight games which no one attends but gives ESPN something to put on TV.
...Compared to the A10's previous deal that gave teams about $312k a year... (https://www.vuhoops.com/2012/10/3/3448930/basketball-isnt-worth-much-to-tv)
I don't know what the A10 deal is and nor do I care.
You said the MAC made great money off their TV contracts and they don't. $700k for all sports--basketball and football--is not a lucrative football contract.
If UB could get some fans to the games, they could make more than that money from an actual fan base and tell ESPN no thanks for the weeknight games. But the stadium is horrible for fans so why would anyone go see them in person on a Wednesday or Thursday night when they can watch on TV and flip back and forth between other things going on?
Regardless of how high you got attendance, even enough people to offset the current level of TV money, why would you ever say no to more money?
I don't think that's true. If anything the Pegulas would love for the Bulls to be enough of a draw to share their stadium with them. And why do you think it's a zero sum game? Does following UB require renouncing the Bills?
1. Could be true for UB, the stadium is so bad it's a negative X-factor. Your original post said this would be a G5-wide issue, I disagree but time will tell.
4. If UB leadership said lets spend our resources at the same rate as St. Bonaventure, we'd have between 38 million (5.75% of the endowment) and $46 million ($1,642/student).
1. The football stadium is the biggest problem with the program. It is a horrible venue for games. You are miles away from the field. There is no atmosphere or noise.
4. If students and fans attended UB basketball games at the same ratio as the Bonnies we would have 10,000 students and 60,000 alumni/fans at each basketball game. Let's be honest. The Bonnies care about basketball more than UB. UB seems to have a bigger interest in the Bills and the Sabres. Which is what the Pegulas want. They don't want the Bulls pulling away from their 'One Buffalo' sports/entertainment monopoly.
The tv money in football is too good
Each school in the MAC gets $700k a year from the TV deal. For comparison, UB is getting $1.8 Million for ONE GAME at Ohio State.
The TV money is horrible! And it is only that high because of the weeknight games which no one attends but gives ESPN something to put on TV.
...Compared to the A10's previous deal that gave teams about $312k a year... (https://www.vuhoops.com/2012/10/3/3448930/basketball-isnt-worth-much-to-tv)
1. Could be true for UB, the stadium is so bad it's a negative X-factor. Your original post said this would be a G5-wide issue, I disagree but time will tell.
4. If UB leadership said lets spend our resources at the same rate as St. Bonaventure, we'd have between 38 million (5.75% of the endowment) and $46 million ($1,642/student).
The tv money in football is too good
2017 we averaged 3791 fans (assuming paid attendance) and made no more than 249,329 in Ticket Revenue. For conversation say each of those tickets were season and each paid $100 in donation, then basketball would have made $48,340 at the most per game in 2017.
Same numbers in 2018, but more home games and lower average attendance, that number falls to $39,453/game in 2018.
Buying a home game these days starts at around 20k and goes up to around 100k so economically it's gonna be hard to bring a team in. I think we need to start getting more 6k crowds and the good home games will follow.
No Purple Chickens listed. Maybe it hasn't been confirmed yet?
Yet again, except for maybe Southern Illinois, no one big is willing to come here.
Aren’t we supposed to get two home games as part of this Belfast Tournament? Given the field I wouldn’t classify them as “big home games”, but they will be home games nonetheless.
Not so. I was there.
I was at that Big 4 tourney. It had a reasonable turnout, around 5K. (Which looks sparse in a 20K arena) Still mad Canisius beat us.
That said, I bet a Big 4 tourney next year would do well, with all the schools playing at a high level. But why settle for local schools? Why not get together with Pegula Sports Entertainment and pitch the idea of a "Canalside Invitational" and invite Syracuse, West Virginia, Penn State, etc? Might be the only way Buffalo will ever get a high-major to play UB in Buffalo.
That's the Catch-22. UB basketball is at its highest level. Interest among local fans is higher than ever. But we can't get a marquee opponent because no high major wants to risk a loss, especially on our home court. This will be Coach Oats (or whoever builds the OOC schedule) greatest challenge.
I think having at least a game or two a year at KeyBank Center would draw a lot of people.
Talking to a lot of older people around the city, they're all nostalgic for when Canisius used to play at The Aud years ago. No one from the city has any desire to trek out to Amherst, but I think the city definitely has an under-served community of basketball fans. An NBA team looks unlikely, so why not give them a few games each year?
