Moving student section
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Local Owl said
Any opinions on moving the student section behind the visitor's bench.Posted On: Jun 6th 2019, 5:33 PM #386753
I love it. A lot of schools do it, UF, Arizona, TCU, Texas A&M.
For Games against teams like UCF it will create an amazing atmosphere.
This is move is really about money though, the 2 per credit hour will create an extra 1.5 from student fees a year based on 25k undergrad taking 30 credit per year.
If you factor an extra 5k student's seats now, FAU just sold 5k season tickets at 300.00 per seat.
Does someone want to confirm my math? LOL
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And hopefully if the kids are enjoying it they’ll stay and come back.
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I'll do some simple math…mostly because I dont think people realize how much money the student body is pumping into our athletics programs.Shane Marinelli OC40 said
I love it. A lot of schools do it, UF, Arizona, TCU, Texas A&M.Local Owl said
Any opinions on moving the student section behind the visitor's bench.
Posted On: Jun 6th 2019, 5:33 PM #386753
For Games against teams like UCF it will create an amazing atmosphere.
This is move is really about money though, the 2 per credit hour will create an extra 1.5 from student fees a year based on 25k undergrad taking 30 credit per year.
If you factor an extra 5k student's seats now, FAU just sold 5k season tickets at 300.00 per seat.
Does someone want to confirm my math? LOL
Posted On: Jun 6th 2019, 6:04 PM #386755
As of 2016 we had 15,714 full time students and 8,499 part time students. For the purpose of this exercise I will only calculate for full time students (which obviously greatly underestimates the dollars).
15,714 x 12 credit hours (some take more) = 188,568 credit hours enrolled in and paid for each semester. Fee per credit for athletics is $17.10 prior to this move. Now is $19.10.
So we were charging the full time undergrad student body $3,224,512 per semester prior to moving the seats. We now charge the full time student body $3,601,648 per semester in exchange for seating them behind the visitor section.
Calculate that to a year (not including summer classes) - you just increased the athletics budget on the backs of the student body by roughly $750,000 in the blink of an eye.
Again, I would add another 30% to my numbers to include part time students who very much still pay fees. So in other terms, we will move the student section and that will take care of Lane's salary. Thanks kids.
Teambeer is the most knowledgeable FAU sports fan I know, way smarter than me.
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I think the school should consider kicking the start times back to 7pm….the sun can be brutal on that side of the field in the afternoon….that's really the biggest negative I see…
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Silver_Bullet32 said
yeah bringing back to football….geesh….Posted On: Jun 15th 2019, 6:09 PM #386819
+1
Moved to a land far, far, away…
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