Increasing the budget, winning more games, and a stadium renovationQuote:
Originally Posted by CajunJeaux
Oh, and a market plan to actually get us there. And I’m not talking a PowerPoint.
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Increasing the budget, winning more games, and a stadium renovationQuote:
Originally Posted by CajunJeaux
Oh, and a market plan to actually get us there. And I’m not talking a PowerPoint.
You’d be very surprised how close we actually are to doubling our budget. People will laugh at the comment. I’ll be the one laughing in 5 years...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajunrunner
“P5 through PowerPoint”Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
Serious question.. Do you really think I’d just be spouting off stupid _____?Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunJeaux
Skype in 2018 brahhhhQuote:
Originally Posted by ULvictory
Can you handle the truth?...Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
As long as we send the conferences a solid PowerPoint presentation on a CD, that’ll mean we are serious. In the meantime, we an accomplish all things in the Sun belt Conference!!!!!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I love the home and home. Seems like every month or so some new news comes out that shows Maggard and Co. are doing some work.
This is for footballQuote:
Originally Posted by CajunT
Maggard will open a torchy's franchise in cajun field boom 20 mill more a yearQuote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
But what about the fans who tailgate in the area where the Torchy’s would be located? We can’t upset them!!!! Greedy people....Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun_lannister
We doubled our budget over the last 5 years and I have no doubt we will do it again. My question to you is this. Did the doubling of our budget over the past 5 years put us in a better situation? The answer to me is no. It didn’t help because everyone but ULM is growing their budget dramatically. So 5 years from now we are sitting at 45MM. What do you think the lower level P5 schools will be at? 100MM? The big dogs will probably be over 250MM. What about Houston and Memphis who share our footprint and are light years ahead of us? Doubling our budget will not get us close to them. I am not saying give up. I am saying the BiG12 is like banking on winning the lottery. We first need to start competing with Tulane and Tech before we take on the Big12.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
And car show will have to be relocated scrap the whole ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by ULvictory
Guess we won’t know unless we tryQuote:
Originally Posted by MetryCajun
Yesh, we don’t want to lose out on that hefty check of less than $10k that they write to us.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun_lannister
$26 mil of that is conference sharing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajunrunner
Bottom of the stack marketing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ULvictory
Kissing conference desks everywhere.
We will be at $30 mil this year. They project possibly between $32mil to $34 mil next year and that is with Learfield, other branding concerns, corporate outreach and accomplished without student fees. We have a ways to go, but that is moving the needle of the compass quickly. With focus on growing revenue streams outside of student fees for our athletics, facilities improvements and our push for Tier I status, we will be close to the top of the G5 in four to five years. Where to from there, we will have a much better view of the landscape at that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by MetryCajun
Good luck getting UH to agree to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonCajun
People won't laugh if you could explain thisQuote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown
That is assuming the top of G5 stays stagnant. They will not. If a UH, SMU, Tulsa or Memphis feels like we are encroaching on their territory they will fight back with the considerable arsenal of donors they have. I fully believe that we will move forward, I just don’t see the universities I mentioned just letting us pass them by. Notice I didn’t even mention SMiss, Rice or Tulane. We are not even at their level yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunT
That would be a conference worth talking about. Houston, TCU, Rice, So. Miss, Tulane, LaTech, LA, ..... I would love to see thisQuote:
Originally Posted by HoustonCajun
We won't pass them by... but the big miss when people talk about our budget being X... is that we're growing it despite being saddled in the SBC. If we get in a better conference... or a realignment with a better member group, we will both capture much more revenue through greater Cajun fan/alumni/business interest... we'll get more conference revenue. You make a good point regarding no one else standing still while we grow our budget... but almost everyone that we envy is in a conference that gives them a serious boost in revenue (TV, etc). We would be the recipient of those shared revenues... and that would allow us to invest and move the needle within our reachable fan base. We keep acting like our ceiling is the budget we're only currently able to generate through what we're limited to showcase in the SBC... with the budget we have. A shot in the arm from a good conference affiliation would have a multiplicative effect on UL.Quote:
Originally Posted by MetryCajun
A better slate of regional home and home deals is a fantastic start. Great work Dr. Maggard and staff.
You don't always fight a new fighter on your block. You recruit him to join your gang. If he's enough of a threat that he gives you a little worry... bring him into your camp. And never underestimate what kind of punch we'd have if we worked out with a stronger group with better equipment. We wouldn't just be a benefactor in a better arrangement. We'd very quickly become a contributor to the pack.Quote:
Originally Posted by MetryCajun
YESQuote:
Originally Posted by ManAboutTown