(06-19-2018 07:40 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(06-19-2018 07:32 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-18-2018 11:25 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  

(06-18-2018 10:31 PM)WoodlandsOwl Wrote:  $1.32 million in Media Rights and Royalties, Licensing and Ads is pathetic
But when you are a part of the impotent CUSA Media Contract with numerous Facebook Live and other Social Media Broadcasts to distribute your product, you are left with the option of body Bag Games for OOC to raise revenue.

It's definitely pathetic, but it's not just the bad CUSA media contract. If I'm understanding things correctly, this category includes corporate sponsorship, where we have self-imposed restrictions on solicitation. There's a lot of money out there if you ask for it, but apparently we're not allowed to.

That's interesting. At the Coaches Caravan I had a bit of a private aside with JK and specifically asked why we didnt 'open the door' more to the concept of corporate sponsorship. His answering was pretty much 'we are are doing awesome with it'. The above numbers kind of toss doubt on that entire statement.

We are doing "awesome" with it within the constraints under which we operate. These numbers reflect how unrealistic those constraints are.

Unless there is 40 million on the proverbial table we are unable to use, is the corporate sponsorships a game changer? Say the number went from 1.32 million to 6 million; a 4 fold increase. It still doesn't materially change that cost outstrips revenue by a massive amount, leaving a revenue gap in the tens (if not hundreds) of millions.

And extra 4.5 million may have made a difference a decade ago towards steering the ship somewhere. 5 million now is like a trying to turn a cruise ship with a soup ladle.