Wolfpack Ram
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Correction - two games. You get one unit for each round you play in, win or lose.
Fixed it.
Revised Seat Equity Plan now Delayed until Next Year
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Correction - two games. You get one unit for each round you play in, win or lose.
Fixed it.
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Hey man, you don't have to attack me, not cool. What I was trying to say was the "entry" (lowest) cost of acquiring season tickets at VCU is higher.UVA also has an arena twice the size of the Stu. At close to 15,00 seats there are going to be some cheap seats that also require the purchase of binoculars.
You need to do your research before you make "blanket" statements regarding the cost of VCU tickets. And stop making unsubstantiated statements like "it's ridiculous that our season tickets are more expensive than basically every other school you can think of", that are totally false. There is no way you can back that statement up with any facts.
The higher end seats and even some normal seats at many schools cost way more than ours. I also addressed that most schools have arenas with 1.5x-2x more seats than we do, which is definitely a limiting factor for us and one of the main reasons why. I actually looked up season ticket + donation requirements for every school in Virginia. Here are the main ones (only calculated for one seat: absolute min):
VCU:
Donation (seating chart): Ticket cost: Total:
Min tier: $250 Min cost: $499 Min cost: $749
Max tier: $10,000 Max cost: $499 Max cost: $10,499
UVA:
Donation (seating chart): Ticket cost: Total:
Min tier: $100 Min cost: $235 Min cost: $335
Max tier: $25,000 Max cost: $600 Max cost: $25,600
VT:
Donation (seating chart): Ticket cost: Total:
Min tier: $25 Min cost: $220 Min cost: $245
Max tier: $350 Max cost: $600 Max cost: $950
JMU:
Donation (seating chart): Ticket cost: Total:
Min tier: $0 Min cost: $125 Min cost: $125
Max tier: $1000 Max cost: $1175 Max cost: $2175
GMU:
Donation (seating chart): Ticket cost: Total:
Min tier: $0 Min cost: $272 Min cost: $272
Max tier: $1250 Max cost: $272 Max cost: $1522
ODU: website says $215, unsure about donation reqs.
UR: Their website is terrible, I can't even find the cost info.
For fun, some other schools:
Dayton: Tickets cost $148-158, no min donation required but donations improve your seating.
St. Bonaventure:
Donation (seating chart): Ticket cost: Total:
Min tier: $0 Min cost: $165 Min cost: $165
Max tier: $425 Max cost: $250 Max cost: $675
Uconn:
Donation (seating chart): Ticket cost: Total:
Min tier: $35 Min cost: $115 Min cost: $150
Max tier: $3300 Max cost: $1500 Max cost: $4800
Villanova: expensive as heck, donations don't guarantee tickets and I'm sure the barrier to entry is high.
What would you consider our equivalent schools? I can add them here.
VCU Finance 2008
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I think it takes a year or two before that money starts rolling in. We might have gotten 1 year of the 2011 Tournament money, but I am pretty sure we wouldn't have seen anything from 2012.
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I read your post 1350 that said we received Final 4 money for 6 years
(a few others too responded to the original post 1350 too clarifying what I said too)
no biggie - go rams
I Read your post 1350 that said we got units for 6 years for final 4 - your revised post(correcting or clarifying) occurred after I sent my response
(a few others too responded to the original post 1350 too clarifying what I said too)
no biggie - go rams
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I’m never getting over that game…
One of our most clutch players ever. Missing FTs that would have sealed. We really have lost some tourney games in heartbreaking fashion.
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darn VT must use the football money to balance because that’s a nice deal for ACC. Dayton is a nice one too and they just redid that arena. If you live in Dayton that’s a no brainer if you love sports.
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Today is the deadline and I always wait for the deadline to re-up.
Let's Go!
Let's Go!
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VCU still would have been owed their payouts from 2011 and 2012 from the CAA as they were still members then.
No matter how posters want to dissect my point, the fact still stands that VCU received much higher NCAA Tournament revenue payouts from units earned under Shaka Smart than any other coach. And that means overall revenue was up during that period, higher than any other period in VCU basketball history. VCU basically has three NCAA units left on the books now with one of them about to expire. That's not good from a revenue standpoint. Add in loss of revenue from ticket sales/RAF donations and the loss of naming rights to the arena (which has not been replaced in several years) and that's a lot of "Benjamins" this current administration has not been able to replace, other than bleeding the season ticket holders to no end.
Regarding the arena naming rights, I can't remember the last time the actual arena did not have naming rights. Alltel originally had the naming rights, then Verizon then EJ Wade. Frankly, I'm at a loss why this athletic administration has totally dropped the ball on finding a replacement since EJ Wade dropped out.
I imagine they are trying to replace naming rights. We also lost $400K a year for the HDL Village ($4M paid out over 10 years). Also less student fees are coming in as enrollment has been declining the past few years. All in the face of record inflation. This is going to be a challenging year or 2 to keep the programs funded. This is a hard environment for anyone.
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Kinda shocked we are more than UVA
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That is a very fair question
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If the CAA was paying out the 2012 NCAA tournament units in 2013 after we were gone then we wouldn't have seen any of that money, or any more of the 2011 NCAA tournament money. No one is arguing that we are getting less now than we were 5 to 10 years ago. Just that we did not reap the full benefits of those 2011 and 2012 NCAA tournament units after departing for the A10. I am not sure that we even saw any of that 2011 tournament money from the CAA. If I remember correctly it was paid out the following summer which would have been after we were gone. The schools that remained after VCU, GMU, and odu departed got a huge windfall there, and it appears that they did nothing with it.
There were only 49 original CC donors who donated more than 10K, so I wonder exactly how many 10K & above donors there are now. (From FOIA request) there were 145 at $2K Plus, 140 at $1,000 Plus, 150 at $290 plus, 318 at $250 which was original B&G level, and 1195 below $250. (This assuming is I did not make a mistake, but it still should be close) The total was 2,000 ($3,049,003.73 total donated) and there are only 97 left. The FOIA says the RAF system does not know (have a report) the donation level of the CCM or of all the current RAF donors. The info. is needed for reseating so it's avoiding answering. I requested a FOIA description of all the RAF donor reports they have.
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The A-10 formula is as follows:
The A-10’s revenue sharing is 75%-25% with the participating institutions keeping 75%.
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I went back and researched VCU's exit fee and you are correct. VCU left $5 million on the table when they left the CAA. They also paid an exit fee of $250,000 to the CAA and an entrance fee of $700,000 to the A-10. The CAA, later that year after VCU left, increased their exit fee to $1 million. Since joining the A-10, VCU's split on the NCAA units earned has been 75%, with the A-10 receiving the other 25% to split amongst it's other members.
The finer details of VCU's big move
On Monday afternoon at 1:30pm, VCU President Michael Rao took the podium at the Stuart C. Siegel Center to announce “Virginia Commonwealth University will join the Atlantic 10 in all sports effective July 1st, 2012.”
rvanews.com
Since joining the A-10, VCU has earned 4 units under Shaka Smart, 3 units under Will Wade and 2 units under Mike Rhoades. VCU has only earned 2 units since 2017.