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Harvard announces non-conference games

MontanaGrizSoccer said:
I get it, been to some games and the atmosphere is amazing but will you get fan fatigue down the road playing D2 and low level FCS schools at home. With 12 games on the schedule there's not enough good options. In today's revenue sharing world, one pay day maybe worth it. What's the revenue for a home game vs Drake or Central WA vs playing Oregon St, WSU or Wyoming.
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Don't know for sure but i think its safe to say the U makes at least 600k from home games and the Missoula community DEFINITELY profits more from a home game than a road game.
 
MontanaGrizSoccer said:
I get it, been to some games and the atmosphere is amazing but will you get fan fatigue down the road playing D2 and low level FCS schools at home. With 12 games on the schedule there's not enough good options. In today's revenue sharing world, one pay day maybe worth it. What's the revenue for a home game vs Drake or Central WA vs playing Oregon St, WSU or Wyoming.
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You obviously aren't much of a football fan. UM's attendance, season tickets and fan support have been going up and setting records. There's no fan fatigue.

For schools like Drake and CWU, I assume UM nets about $1 million. There is large tickets revenue, and the U gets revenue from concessions and sale of Griz Ware. UM doesn't net anywhere close to that amount on high-pay road games, where UM has to pay its travel expenses out of the game fee.

Home games are incredibly huge for the Missoula community and businesses. Away games bring zero dollars to Missoula.

"One University of Montana home game football weekend brings in $5.2 million in nonresident visitor spending to Missoula County, including almost $1.6 million in lodging and accommodations and more than $1.3 million in restaurants and bars, according to the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana."
 
MontanaGrizSoccer said:
I get it, been to some games and the atmosphere is amazing but will you get fan fatigue down the road playing D2 and low level FCS schools at home. With 12 games on the schedule there's not enough good options. In today's revenue sharing world, one pay day maybe worth it. What's the revenue for a home game vs Drake or Central WA vs playing Oregon St, WSU or Wyoming.
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It’s not about the atmosphere. It’s about how the payday from a D2 home game is substantially higher than the payout from an FBS road game.
 
mthoopsfan said:
And the atmosphere and attendance for early season games are usually very good.
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That’s true. I’m not saying the atmosphere is bad but rather the dollar amounts are what is driving the decision regardless of what the atmosphere is. There are plenty of FCS teams that play FBS annually because they do not get that much from home games. Montana might get the most money of any FCS for home games.
 
I think it would be fun to have a home and home series with one of the good Ivy League teams. Yale, Darmouth or Harvard would be a fun road trip in the Fall. Even a game at Columbia in NYC would be fun. Cool historic campuses in pretty fun areas. And I think Yale proved last Fall that the football is pretty good. With FCS losing some good schools almost every year and the Ivies now in the playoffs it would be smart for FCS schools to promote these games.
 
mthoopsfan said:
You obviously aren't much of a football fan. UM's attendance, season tickets and fan support have been going up and setting records. There's no fan fatigue.

For schools like Drake and CWU, I assume UM nets about $1 million. There is large tickets revenue, and the U gets revenue from concessions and sale of Griz Ware. UM doesn't net anywhere close to that amount on high-pay road games, where UM has to pay its travel expenses out of the game fee.

Home games are incredibly huge for the Missoula community and businesses. Away games bring zero dollars to Missoula.

"One University of Montana home game football weekend brings in $5.2 million in nonresident visitor spending to Missoula County, including almost $1.6 million in lodging and accommodations and more than $1.3 million in restaurants and bars, according to the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana."
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If UM schedules a home game against Dartmouth, who's colors are you wearing to the game? Who are you cheering for?
 
Wolf777 said:
For the first time in half a decade. With a 12 game schedule every year we have plenty of other slots to fill. What’s our home non-con slate? We play an FBS once every 3-4 years. Seems on years we don’t we play an FBS we play down to a D2 school which doesn’t help us out come playoff seeding.
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We should be playing an FBS school every year since we're already peer institutions and on the same level with most of the MWC teams bare minimum. Also use it as practice for when we have to move up
 
Ut-Grizfan said:
We should be playing an FBS school every year since we're already peer institutions and on the same level with most of the MWC teams bare minimum. Also use it as practice for when we have to move up
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How would UM make up for the hole that would put in the budget? Playing MW schools would be even more costly to UM’s budget. I don’t view UM as peer institutions and the same level as most of the MW.
 
MontanaGrizSoccer said:
I get it, been to some games and the atmosphere is amazing but will you get fan fatigue down the road playing D2 and low level FCS schools at home. With 12 games on the schedule there's not enough good options. In today's revenue sharing world, one pay day maybe worth it. What's the revenue for a home game vs Drake or Central WA vs playing Oregon St, WSU or Wyoming.
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...not if they are rattling off deep playoff runs...

Winning is the decisive point in preventing fan fatigue.
 
mthoopsfan said:
You obviously aren't much of a football fan. UM's attendance, season tickets and fan support have been going up and setting records. There's no fan fatigue.

For schools like Drake and CWU, I assume UM nets about $1 million. There is large tickets revenue, and the U gets revenue from concessions and sale of Griz Ware. UM doesn't net anywhere close to that amount on high-pay road games, where UM has to pay its travel expenses out of the game fee.

Home games are incredibly huge for the Missoula community and businesses. Away games bring zero dollars to Missoula.

"One University of Montana home game football weekend brings in $5.2 million in nonresident visitor spending to Missoula County, including almost $1.6 million in lodging and accommodations and more than $1.3 million in restaurants and bars, according to the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana."
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SoldierGriz said:
...not if they are rattling off deep playoff runs...

Winning is the decisive point in preventing fan fatigue.
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Good points but at what costs, FCS loose money on hosting playoff games and making the championship game, last year MSU barley broke even.
 
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