[Vision2020] 17,000 average!

[Mike Weatherford]

  My money is still on a figure in the low 20,000's, for the total 
student/resident population, figuring in the overlap. At this point, I'd 
just be guessing - I don't have anything approaching the semblance of useful 
information to throw at the problem. But I'd -guess- around 22,500 or so. 
Which doesn't help the numbers at all.

  As Tom implied, we could simply rely on out-of-town vistors to make up the 
difference at all of our football games. Every single one of them. Because 
we're not going to get something like 75% local attendence (that's a simple 
fact; I'd be shocked if any school in the nation could boast a number close 
to that.) But how many out of town visitors could the town realistically 
accomidate? And how many are we likely to see, on average? Assuming that 
nobody from out of town went to the homecoming game (which doesn't seem like 
a very good assumption, but I'll make it anyway, for the sake of argument,) 
then could Moscow and the surrounding region accomidate an average of 8,000 
out-of-towners every weekend, in order for us to meet the requirements of 
average attendence? And, supposing we had excellent out-of-town attendence 
for the homecoming game, then where exactly are we going to find another 
8,000 football fans? Maybe we should institute an expensive advertising 
campaign? Or start bussing in fans from surrounding areas? Of course, that 
would be expensive. But hey, the College of Letters, Arts, and Social 
Sciences still has some money left in it. Maybe we could just hit the CLASS 
budget until a better football team comes out?

  On a slightly related note, I'm kind of impressed that so many people 
hurried to correct my mistake about the Moscow population. It was a mistake, 
and I'm sorry for it. But I'm kind of touched that so many people actually 
read what I put up here, let alone responded to it. Thanks guys! I knew you 
cared! :-) :-)

Your Pal,
-Mike W.

>From: "Dan Carscallen" <predator75 at moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 17,000 average!
>Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:21:31 -0800
>
>While that would still put the "non-students" close to 13,000, I wonder
>how it breaks down to full-time residents who also attend school . . .
>
>DC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
>[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Ron Force
>Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:12 AM
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 17,000 average!
>
>
>The 2000 US Census shows Moscow Population as 21,291
>1049 are under 5
>1664 are over 65
>17,861 are over 18
>10,390 are over 25
>
>8,352 are enrolled in college or graduate school.
>
>http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=ChangeGeoContext&g
>eo_i
>d=16000US1654550&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=moscow&_state=
>0400
>0US16&_zip=83843&_lang=en&_sse=on
>
>
>**********************************************
>Ron Force         Moscow ID USA
>rforce at moscow.com
>**********************************************
>
>Are you sure Moscow's population includes UI students? Does that mean we
>only have 12,000 full-time residents? That doesn't seem accurate.
>
>Debbie
>
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