thundercatt99 said:
The above is true it seems re budgets
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While I was ready to let this go, something got into my head last night.
(1) No two schools have the same accounting methods FWIW.
(2) Let's take Idaho State. There is no in-state tuition. Fees tend to make up for much of that, but not close to tuition in Oregon. This assumes that scholarships are expensed on the AD's books. That's one thing not universally done.
(3) Eastern Idaho... ag-based, heavily Mormon (frugal), not rich, population base of Pocatello and Idaho Falls might reach 250,000.
(4) Marketing. I don't see much TV marketing in Portland, and it's questionable if ISU does much better. What I generally see in both cases are billboards. ISU usually bought a board west of Pocatello near American Falls. Daily traffic count: 10,500. If they have one along I-15 near Holt Arena, 15,000 cars a day see it. PSU usually has a billboard along SW Columbia (since there's none to place before the Vista Ridge Tunnel, where 150,000 cars per day would see it), so 5,500 cars a day see that. If a billboard were placed near Hillsboro Stadium, 55,000 cars would see it. If you advertise on network over-air TV, 3 million people would see it versus 250,000... and given the reach of Comcast, probably 2 million of that number see a cable TV-based campaign.
So think of how much it costs to advertise in Pocatello as opposed to Portland.
How much does it cost to house athletes in Pocatello compared to Portland?
Of course it's a bigger budget for PSU. Is it self-sustaining given all those factors?
