(02-08-2012 11:47 AM)catdaddy_2402 Wrote: (02-08-2012 11:08 AM)templefootballfan Wrote: one thing you guys are missing
expansion will increase other sources of revenue
total might be 4 or 5 million total package
Which still puts us behind the PAC12 and B1G's tv contracts currently, and the SEC when their new deal gets done, before you add in all their "other sources of revenue"
Plus for Clemson it means we are giving up an 82K home OOC sellout for an anywhere from 72-78k ACC home game. Even with the basic ticket cost of $25 that means on the high end it is costing us $100k, on the low end $250k.
Not so fast, Cat Daddy!
First, your stadium capacity is listed as 80,301 - not 82k. According to reported attendance numbers, you were above that 3 times last year:
Auburn = 81,514
FSU = 80,994
UNC = 80,519
Second, the only OOC game you actually sold out last year was Auburn; the 2 that won't require a return trip - Troy & Wofford - averaged only 73,998 attendance - far below capacity (and I know for a fact that some of those tickets were given away for free).
By contrast, if we take away the FSU game for a moment and just look at the ACC opponents that you despise so much - BC, UNC, and Wake - the reported attendance numbers for those 3 games were:
BC = 76315 (still 2,000 better than Wofford & 3,000 better than Troy)
UNC = 80519 (as much as we love to hate UNC, it WAS a sellout)
Wake = 78375
AVG = 78403
So, in real world terms, your ACC games did not cost you money -- they actually brought in EXTRA money. You sold an extra 4,405 tickets vs ACC "northern" and "NC" teams than vs. OOC cupcakes. Using your $25 per ticket number, that's an extra $110,125 per game.
Would it better if they were all sold out? And that is what Clemson needs to try to achieve. By not selling out Troy, Wofford, BC, and Wake, Clemson left $462,950 on the table. That's nearly half a million in extra revenue right there.
I get that you don't want to completely give up a home game every other year. Neither does VT. So, what if you only schedule "extra" BCS at neutral sites, where Clemson gets half? Ga Dome seats 71,228; Bank of America seats 73,778. Here is a link discussing
neutral site games. According to the article, Georgia made nearly as much money from playing Boise St in the Georgia Dome as they would have if they had played them in Athens.
BOTTOM LINE: I don't think the 9 game schedule is going to be as bad as you think it is - especially when you factor in an extra $2 million or more in TV money.