[Vision2020] 17,000 average!

[Donovan Arnold]

Debbie,

Like I say. All of you that think that going AI will be such a bang for the 
buck, ought to invest in it yourself if you are so confident that 17,000 
paying fans will drive to every game. I for one don't think it will happen 
and don't think it is evidence that it will be successful because you know a 
family or two that comes up from Boise, or flies over from Honolulu. This 
sounds like someone saying, I asked ten people I know which candidate they 
liked best and 7 said candidate B so I extrapolated from this data that 
candidate B will win with 70% of the vote.

There is a big difference between a bus full of people and 17,000. I also 
know dozens of Alumni that don't go to UI games, including some that even 
played football. Gambling a huge amount of resources into football when we 
don't have enough money for classrooms and teachers seems like an awfully 
bad idea and smells more like a Hoover program than one of future 
prosperity.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold

>From: Debbie Gray <dgray at uidaho.edu>
>To: Donovan Arnold <donovanarnold at hotmail.com>
>CC: Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 17,000 average!
>Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:33:40 -0800 (PST)
>
>I also know several families who drive down from Bonners Ferry or from
>Boise for the games... There's a big alumni thing in Boise that arranges
>trips up here for games from what I've heard (geez, they even organized
>some sort of relay run from boise to here for some game this year). And
>the people that attend aren't $$ challenged students, they're people with
>disposable income to spend in the region.
>
>Football fanatics will do anything for games...
>
>I wonder which attendance is higher, student attendance (basically free)
>or non-student attendance.
>
>Obviously more regional people would attend if we played "local-ish" teams
>like EWU or Montana State or etc. not a lot of people making the
>drive/flight from Louisiana Crawfish Tech...
>
>Debbie
>
>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Donovan Arnold wrote:
>
> > Mr Hansen writes, "Being a listserve subscriber to Vandal Mail I am 
>aware of
> > several alums that
> > >not only come to Moscow from Coeur d'Alene for Vandal football, but 
>also
> > >Boise, Portland, and Seattle."
> >
> > Oh, Goody gum drops Mr Hansen! You tell those 6 people to come on down. 
>It
> > will be worth the $2 million to switch to AI then!
> >
> > Maybe you and Mr. Storhok should invest your money to switch to AI. Are 
>you
> > not loyal enough fans, or are you just as certain as I am that AI will 
>be
> > financial disaster as has been with every other major project UI has
> > undertaken in the last six years?
> >
> > Put your money your mouth is.
> >
> > Take Care,
> >
> > Donovan J Arnold
> >
>
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