Wealth ( bowl profits, it in only fair.) redistribution.
Wealth ( bowl profits, it in only fair.) redistribution.
Agree with everything you said, with one caveat: once an investment, or an improvement is made, it has to be maintained.
Once the project is done, you have to paint it, fix the toilet, cut the grass, etc. And while the enrollment would potentially go up due to the notoriety of the program, that increase in revenues will go first to the university and then to Cajun Field, Moore Field, etc.
I'll give two examples of this conflict. LCG recently bought the Horse Farm. The cost of buying it eventually goes away, the cost of maintaining it doesn't. And where does the money come from? There is money for existing facilities, not proposed ones. And I'm pretty sure we can't reprogram a capital dollar for O&M. And we wouldn't want to.
Now I have to plead ignorance here.I don't know if that dollar that was used for a UL capital improvement can be used for maintenance once the project is paid for. In any event, the project won't be paid in full for 20 years or so, so you wouldnt be able to use that money for maintenance for years.
Youngsville, on the other hand, did a project correct. Youngsville passed a sales rax to pay for a capital project (a recreation facility) but that sales tax also had a maintenance component to it.
I think T-Joe wants to see Cajun Field improvements. I don't think he'll catch heat from the community. I think the community will be excited about the improvements. I agree that this is probably all dictated by apprehension on the part of the administration. But if the picture is close to rosy, they should act.
7 paragraphs, including this. Oy, some people's children.
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How can we leverage our attendance for future Bowl Appearances to let the selection committees know that our fan base travels so we can get a bigger and better bowl?
Can we send this list to the BCS Bowl Committees, espn, other bowl committees
Is this something our administration shoiuld be doing??????????????????????
Some of us had to fly to attend the New Orleans Bowl. Fact of life, not that big of a deal. It is easier to fly the weeks following Christmas than the week before Christmas. I would be all in for almost any Bowl, but because of their treatment of the Cajuns in the past, I would prefer it not be the Independence Bow.
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