(02-23-2017 05:49 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(02-23-2017 05:11 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(02-23-2017 04:58 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(02-23-2017 03:48 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(02-23-2017 03:18 PM)panama Wrote:  You're going to have to come up with the dollars in cash to build out that stadium to 25k from 8k. Cash also for a football operations building. Oh yeah and you're going to need additional woman's sports. More cash. No increase in athletic fee allowed. And you are going to have to do this as you reduce your percentage susidy below 65%. They are barely afloat in FCS as it is. Yes, all of that is in stone.

Toodles

The same for Coastal.

The Football team will draw more money from alumni to local business for UWF.

Pensacola doesn't really have a business community or a history of really doing anything. Cooperation isn't a big then. They have an airport. And that's it. Much of their population is transient or retired, and have allegiances elsewhere. Pensacola doesn't even work well with Fort Walton/Crestview/Destin. The only thing Mobile or Baldwin Counties ever have to do with P'cola is the airport.

Their school has a very small (for FBS) enrollment and historically has been much lower than now. They don't have a large number of alumni, nor are many of their alumni even really tied to P'cola. A lot were military.

West Florida's famous Alumni:
Roy Jones JR. boxer
James Ellis Lockheed Martin
Tom Keiser CIO of The Gap Inc.
Bruce Melnick of Boeing Company's Integrated Defense System
Mark Oken former cfo of Bank of American
Hansel Tockes CEO of Raytheon Aircraft
Namrata Singh Gujral actress Passions soap opera
David Hart actor from the tv show In the Heat of the Night
Jan Hooks
David Lingmerth PGA golfer
Many astronauts and military leaders.
several politicians.

add Joe Scarborough, he represented the district in congress. There are about 500,000 people within 30 miles of the campus. UWF compares favorably with Coastal and ULM.