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(12-11-2009 09:29 AM)KSUowl0003 Wrote:  http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/sports/k...ram_121009

never get sick of seeing us on the news

We were on each news cast last night

That's great screen time right there to get a three minute block on the news. Even Channel 2, which is UGA down to the bootstraps, had a short snippet in the sports - but only 20 seconds or so.
12-11-2009 10:04 AM
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Adam, Did you catch the "We were first to report last week" at the very start? That's probably why they did the whole 3 mins. They scooped it somehow.
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(12-11-2009 09:59 AM)KSUowl0003 Wrote:  http://courses.kennesaw.edu/media/files/...60x315.mov

Here is the schools official announcement video which they sent out to people and posted on their website

How the hell did you dig that up? Nice find though!
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Just found that the MDJ has posted the full 44 min news conference

http://www.mdjonline.com/pages/full_stor...ws_bullets
12-11-2009 10:19 AM
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(12-11-2009 10:07 AM)Nick M Wrote:  Adam, Did you catch the "We were first to report last week" at the very start? That's probably why they did the whole 3 mins. They scooped it somehow.

Yeah, and they were the only news station to do an initial report on Dooley's involvement last year. So I think you must be right about them getting the scoop.

I was just about to check the MDJ...
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This publicity does nothing but help our other programs as well...especially basketball. We get football, and our basketball team continues to improve and we will get a lot more publicity in Georgia. We are starting to crack the Atlanta market even now, and we really haven't done much. Pretty good for a 1st year D1 program. The mind-boggling aspect of this publicity wise is that Atlanta is a 5+ million resident area. While most of those people will never come to watch a game, it still makes a huge difference for our graduates who are entering the work force.
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You know, that's one thing that's always been crazy about job hunting. You say Kennesaw State and they ask, aren't you getting a football team? Now I think graduates have a solid answer for those hiring managers and that is a huge change from the past. Will it get you hired? No. Will it put you in the same mindset category as UGA/Tech/State/Southern and West Georgia? Finally.
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I have discussed this a bit with some friends and after watching the entire press conference this is what I think. Yes, I understand it is an "exploratory" committee that will answer all those important questions, but #1 KSU wouldn't bring in Dooley if there wasn't a legit chance and #2 Dooley wouldn't want to waste all that time without being able to see a program built. Just my opinion though.
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Fox5 seems to agree with you Escalade. As do I.
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I am not convinced it's a done deal - I think the move to bring in Dooley was simply to bring some visibility and credibility to the effort. With that perhaps will come greater financial commitments from donors or sponsors (not sure sponsorship works with NCAA sports). And, hopefully, it will bring in some more interest from more apathetic alumni and students, many of whom probably grew up as UGA fans.
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There was a new building almost completed by the time I was last on campus 6 months ago. I have very little concern for the university's ability to find financing for any ambitious project they choose to take on. Dooly's not here to cheerlead, he's here to put his stamp on one more of his many accomplishments over his career. You could tell from the press conference that he has a different attitude than Papp's, "We're just talking about it" company line.
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Yeah, he seems pretty enthusiastic.

I have no doubt they'll use the whole nine months before they come to a decision either way, even if they're leaning towards football right now. I'd be surprised as hell if we heard anything definitive before then.
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This article mentions KSU in a recent edition of the The Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/article/At-What-Pri...ll-/64132/

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February 14, 2010
At What Price Football?
As some programs suit up (and others disband), one team's early success could be instructive

Matt Eich for The Chronicle
Bobby Wilder, head coach of Old Dominion U.'s football team—reborn in 2009 after an absence of 69 years—speaks to the university's booster club, whose numbers grew almost 50 percent over the past year.
By Libby Sander
Norfolk, Va.
Old Dominion University's fledgling football team received an unusual boost this month when three players from two now-defunct Division I programs signed on to play for the Monarchs next season.
It was the steep price tag of football that prompted the two universities, Northeastern and Hofstra, which like Old Dominion are members of the Colonial Athletic Association, to discontinue their teams after decades of competition. Yet the Monarchs, which have a football team for the first time since 1941, have rallied students, alumni, and residents of this city to support the costly venture.
Starting a football program, even at the NCAA's Division I-AA level, where Old Dominion began competing last fall, is rarely easy—particularly at a time when most colleges' finances are already stretched thin. Old Dominion had the advantage of completing much of its preparation before the full impact of the recession hit. Still, its early success offers a lesson in how to pull off a football debut.
Old Dominion U. defeated Chowan U. in September in its first game since the 1940 season. Marquel Thomas, a wide receiver, scored the first touchdown.
Several other colleges in Division I-AA are hoping to replicate Old Dominion's running start. Responding to intense demand from their students and alumni, they are in various stages of rolling out programs.
Among them are the University of South Alabama, which also introduced its team last fall, and Georgia State University, which begins competition next season. The University of Texas at San Antonio is slated to start playing in 2011. Kennesaw State University, the only Division I institution in the football-crazy state of Georgia without a team, announced in December it would explore the viability of adding one (and hired the legendary Georgia coach Vince Dooley to lead the project).
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which announced in 2008 that it would add a football team in 2013, however, has struggled to raise money. Companies that initially offered financial support have pulled back, as have individual donors. So far the university has brought in less than $6-million of the $45-million needed to move forward, and is awaiting approval from state officials on a student-fee increase that would significantly offset football's costs.
Still, the 49ers are determined to make the sport a reality, says Judith W. Rose, Charlotte's athletic director. "This is a long-term vision for the university," she says. "If we're going to be the university we want to be, if we're going to be perceived as the university we want to be perceived as, football is the way to get there."
She adds: "People always talk about the cost of football. They ought to look at the cost of not having football."
Is the Money There?
The aura of football extends far beyond Saturday afternoons. Students clamor for the game-day atmosphere. Alumni like to see the name of their alma mater on the ESPN ticker. And many college officials crave the positive attention a successful program can bring.
"From the day I was named president four years ago, I have been asked in every presentation I make, every store I walk into, 'When are you going to start football?,'" says Daniel S. Papp, Kennesaw State's president. "Clearly the interest is there. What I don't know is whether the money's there."
Football is by far the costliest line on an athletics department's balance sheet. In Division I-AA, the median annual football expenditure is $2.3-million—but some programs spend more than twice that. The vast majority of football teams at this level struggle to break even. In fact, only 2 percent reported operating surpluses in the 2008 fiscal year, according to the most recent NCAA data available.
At Hofstra, football accounted for a quarter of the $18-million athletics budget. After a two-year investigation, the university's Board of Trustees concluded in December that its investment in football was not paying off, and cut the team.
"It was costing the university $4.5-million a year for a sport which did not draw national publicity or recognition, which was not embraced by large numbers of the community or our alumni in terms of fund raising or attendance, and which didn't excite our students," Hofstra's president, Stuart Rabinowitz, said in a recent interview. "It was a relatively clear decision that the money would be better used for academic purposes and need-based scholarships."
Hofstra's announcement came less than two weeks after Northeastern discontinued its football program. With a team beset by lackluster facilities and a perennially losing record, officials at Northeastern said they were unwilling to shell out more money to revitalize the program with a new coach, a new stadium, and ramped-up recruiting.
"It was about what we were going to have to spend going forward," says Peter Roby, the athletic director. "It was a $20-million-plus situation, and that, to me, was not tenable."
Making It Work
Old Dominion may well encounter its own fiscal challenges.
A recent report on the public university's athletics department obtained by The Virginian-Pilot, a local newspaper, praised the department for creating an "enviable" financial model for football. But it said projections showed "a continuous budget shortfall" from the 2011-12 through the 2014-15 fiscal years. The report, which nonetheless recommended that Old Dominion embrace football as a potentially lucrative fund-raising tool, had been commissioned by the university and conducted by an independent firm.
So far, though, the Monarchs' return to the gridiron has clearly been a win.
The team defeated nine of its 11 opponents last fall. A refurbished 20,000-seat stadium drew sellout crowds for every home game. And in a surprising show of community support, residents of the surrounding Hampton Roads region with no formal ties to the university snapped up a majority of the season tickets.
Over all, football brought in $5.4-million in its first year, including $2-million in naming rights for the stadium and the sale of luxury seats and season tickets.
So why does the sport succeed at some institutions but not at others? At Old Dominion, several key components were already in place, officials say.
A football field still occupied the center of the campus, though it needed a face-lift. Existing athletics teams are strong, having collected 28 national titles among them. The Hampton Roads region is rich in talented high-school players often overlooked by the state's two Division I-A football programs, the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech. And there are no major local professional teams to compete for the spotlight. (Northeastern and Hofstra, by contrast, competed in major urban markets with popular pro sports.)
Still, adding the sport has been a major investment here. Football's operating costs, including scholarships and coaches' salaries, are $3.9-million this year, and those expenses are expected to grow to $4.5-million next year. In 2007, Old Dominion imposed a new annual fee of $450 per student not only to help cover the operating costs and debt service for football and its facilities, but also to pay for the addition of three women's teams to satisfy gender-equity requirements.
The new fee came on top of existing athletics fees, which already cover 72 percent of the university's $27-million athletics budget. Students had supported football from the beginning, and John R. Broderick, the president, says officials were clear that "if we decide to go this route, it is going to cost the students more."
Ms. Rose, at UNC-Charlotte, hopes a fee increase will help football's cause on her campus. So far athletics officials there, confronting fallout from the recession, have collected less than $2-million in private donations toward the estimated $45-million start-up price tag, and have accounted for $4-million in seat licenses. Without strong support from local companies and donors, officials hope a proposed increase in student fees will help pay down $40-million in debt service on a stadium and, eventually, cover $4-million of the sport's estimated $6.5-million annual operating cost.
(The University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors approved the proposed $120 annual debt-service fee for students late last week. A separate annual fee devoted to operating costs, which would begin at $50 per student in 2011 and increase to $200 by 2014, will be considered at a later date.)
"I certainly wish we wouldn't have to tax the students as much," Ms. Rose says, "but at the same time, this is their desire."
At Old Dominion, Mr. Broderick says football's early success was not "a fluke."
Adding football was essential to the university's goal of shedding its image as a commuter school, he explains. "We've made a big commitment to football." By 2015, the year that football and the three additional women's sports will all be up and running, the university expects to have spent more than $70-million on the venture. Officials here are determined, he says, to keep the momentum going, even as programs on other campuses struggle to get off the ground—or fold altogether.
If there's a sign of things to come, it may be in the membership of the booster organization, the Big Blue Club. Its ranks grew from 1,700 to 2,500 in 2009, and on signing day this month, when football prospects declare where they will enroll, it appeared there was near-perfect attendance from the club.
The spirited group packed the Big Blue Room at the university's indoor arena for a pep rally of sorts led by the team's head coach, Bobby Wilder. Blue wigs and face paint added color to the crowd, and raucous cheers erupted whenever a local athlete from nearby Chesapeake or Newport News was mentioned.
"Your Monarchs," the coach told his supporters, "are the best-ever start-up program in the history of college football!"
Clutching their plastic cups of beer, the boosters shouted their approval. But, packed elbow to elbow, they didn't have much room to maneuver. If Old Dominion football keeps up its momentum, the Big Blue Club may soon need an even bigger room.
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(02-19-2010 08:31 AM)Bucfaithful Wrote:  This article mentions KSU in a recent edition of the The Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/article/At-What-Pri...ll-/64132/

Care to mention what it said about KSU? You have to be a subscriber to read the whole thing.
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