to pay their bills. “If we’re aren’t back (playing) by the fall, it will look like the Great Depression, and we will be in soup lines.”
Could the NCAA become irrelevant?.
I don't see any way that ND won't have to cut ticket prices. That's good for everyone, unless you're paying a certain coach a bunch of money to lead your program.
or not based on unsold seats this year. What an interesting article in light of the way Our Lady's University fiddled away the loyalty and rabid fanaticism of the fanbase as they instead sought to cater to people who wanted to buy a "game day experience" or a "tent with special wing feast".
You could almost write the exact same story about Walt Disney World. They've alienated normal people in favor of the whales. Now that those whales are gone, will the old fans come back?
the weaker opponents. Night games suck too.
Remember when our rationale for the NBC package many, many years ago was so that our fan base could make travel plans to attend a game at 2:30 or 3:30 each Saturday? Fr. Burchaell stated that the fan base was upset that networks would move a high profile game to a night game 2 weeks before game-time.
Even with months to make travel plans, unless you have a hotel room or rental home you can walk to, night games are a shitshow.
Fr. Beauchamp - Executive VP at the time and successor to Fr. Joyce. Burchaell at the time was, shall we say, "unavailable"....
And actually he is correct (in 1990 or so when he said it and still today) - at least to some extent. It means that right now all ND fans know that Clemson will be at 730PM and Arkansas and Louisville at 230PM.
You couldn't get that from another college team about their home schedule. Michigan, for example, doesn't know if their home games against Wisconsin or PSU will be at 12noon, 330 or 730. And in some cases they won't know until a week or two before the game.
on that little bug from Wuhan. Never will they question their own actions to effectively trash their football legacy and embrace the glitz as the cause of their fiscal misfortunes. They built the Altar of Crossroads as their gaudy symbol of excess for all to see and marvel - except it will now be now known as their legacy of lost honor, cluelessness, and inverse ticket scalping.
And they won't change a thing. They've hitched their ride on visionary Savvy Jack and his relentless monitoring of the college football landscape, and there's no going back. And in years to come when they roll in that new statue of cheapened achievement, it will be "Goodbye, Head Coach Brian Kelly for a job well done" - and "Hello, new Head Coach Tommy Rees for more of the same".
I get what you're saying about getting top dollar and alienating long-time season ticket holders and fans with huge price increases. In my opinion, that's more a sign of our MBA-analytics times than it is Notre Dame. Everyone feels the need to squeeze the last penny out of every customer experience.
But the Crossroads project was as good as you're going to get. The 98 expansion bastardized the stadium and made it hideous. Crossroads was a multi-functional expansion that will be used in the fall whether there are football games or not.
and will say "see, we told you so" when athletic departments elsewhere fail and they have offices and classrooms.
people opted to mow their lawns on Saturday fall afternoons instead of suffering through post-Holtz games.
It works if there really is a good match-up like Georgia or Clemson.