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While Football Ticket Prices Soar, Auburn Struggles to Profit
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Does not surprise me one bit ! But Alabama is called the hick school in the state. There has and always will be more money at ALABAMA.
They have a deficit of almost $1 million dollars because of all the former coaches they are still paying. Aren't they still paying Tubbs?
In all honesty this is why paying players is a terrible idea. Most athletic departments run a deficit. Alabama's revenue and profit is an exception and not the rule
What a lot of people might be overlooking, is the fact that Auburn spends too much money, not that they don't make enough. They insist on trying to keep up with Alabama, and the only way they can do that is via subsidies that make up for spending that they are in no way justified in doing.
Ironically, Alabama fans paying taxes are helping Auburn spend money to try and keep up with Alabama.
Ironically, Alabama fans paying taxes are helping Auburn spend money to try and keep up with Alabama.
Hmm I might send an email to the Auburn athletic department next year and see if they'll sell me some iron bowl tickets if I pretend to be a barner.
When you're paying that many former coaches and players to keep their mouths shut, it gets expensive in s hurry...
They can spot fakes pretty easily. So be sure to misspell words and use poor grammar so they will think you are a barber.
It costs a lot of money to try to keep up with big brother. Barney will always be a day late and a dollar short.
Exactly. It's like Reagan's Star Wars strategy that broke the Communist Bloc, accelerating the end of the Cold War through a battle of spending.
A glance at the AU boards, and there are topics about how embarrassing it is that the Jordan Hare game clock continues to fail.
If the whole thing comes crumbling down one day, I hope the barner refugees flee east into GA rather than our direction.
Firing bad coaches and paying out their contracts increases revenue and profits if you make the right hire - and they did with Gus. That isn't their problem, nor is the insignificant loss in sales in deciding not to allow extra tickets to be sold to rival fans.
The problem is Title IX. It may be helping young women, but it has destroyed the profitability of almost every athletic department in the US.
The problem is Title IX. It may be helping young women, but it has destroyed the profitability of almost every athletic department in the US.
One must wonder how Auburn paid what amounted to about eight million bucks total to get out of a home and home with Florida State after firing Terry Bowden. Or how they had all that money to tell Chizik to "go broadcast on TV."
Or how they were able to pay Scam, Eric Ramsey, Charles Barkley, and so many documented others.
Or how they were able to pay Scam, Eric Ramsey, Charles Barkley, and so many documented others.
The list of former head coaches and assistants on the payroll is a long one and has to be very expensive. While most schools pay out the remaining contract Aubie pays out hush money beyond the contract.
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