[QUOTE=JaMiNNiNeR;140372]If a corporation could invest in a new business venture that in the long run would be profitableā¦[/QUOTE]
Oh my God am I sick of this topic.
The pro-football maniacs refuse to understand logic.
Look, you answered your own question. Corporations DO raise/borrow money for PROFITABLE ventures. Div 1 football is NOT profitable at 70% of the schools!!!
If you look at our community/student/alumni SUPPORT for our basketball team (poor is an understatement), what makes you think that the community/student/alumni are going to show up 10X fold and spend 10X fold for a sucky start up 1-AA Football team?!
Iāve said it on record now for the 12,349th time. If we continue to grow as a university and eventually begin to pour SERIOUS money/support into the 49er Club and CURRENT 49er sports, then we will prove ourselves worthy of such a RISKY venture.
Corporations will invest/spend millions on a project ONLY when the research shows a POSITIVE return on their investment. We, as a school/community/alumni/student base have done NOTHINGā¦let me repeat thatā¦NOTHING to show that football here would be nothing more than a cash furnace of a failure.
If you disagree. Fine. Show me facts otherwise. Donāt use other schools. Use OUR issues and OUR market and OUR demographic and why that data shows football will work here. The āFootball is popularā argument is not hard factual data. What another school did is irrelevant to OUR issues. Assumptions do not incite someone to take a $10Million risk.
We need ALOT more time to grow as a universityā¦ALOT more time to grow 49er pride/supportā¦and ALOT more time cultivating more big (and small) dollar contributing supporters of the athletic fund.
Againā¦BEFORE you take a $10million+ risk, you have to PROVE you have a MARKET for the product, a DEMAND for the product and CAPITAL to build and sustain the product.
We have VERY little of each. Solve that problemā¦and you will get your football. I think the only thing that solves that problem is time. Give us another 10 yrs to grow and we may be in a position to ātackleā it then.