Will Joe Paterno AND Penn State Football Both Die in 2012?

[Quality Start Machine]

2) Expenses will go up (compliance won't be cheap). Income will go way down (who's going to want to waste a Saturday at State College to watch a sad sack team)?

Intrepid Readers: 103,000 fans

WE ARE.

[Internet Apex]

A couple thoughts to ponder when people point out $60 million is one year net income of the PSU football program


1) The Athletic Department ran in the red last year despite having one of the most profitable football programs.

2) Expenses will go up (compliance won't be cheap). Income will go way down (who's going to want to waste a Saturday at State College to watch a sad sack team)?

3) If the football program is subsidizing the rest of the sports, how will they be able to support them?

Going DIII like U of C makes a lot of sense. I asked rhetorically what value Penn State brings to the Big Ten. What value does the Big Ten bring Penn State at this point? Travel expenses would be a lot better in a league with Slippery Rock and Indiana Pa.

Also, aren't they going to get hit with a bunch of civil suits?

Yes. I heard they're going to try to settle/pay them as quickly as possible too in order to close the book and avoid protracted legal battles that will end up costing them even more. $60 Million might be an insignificant number but it's only one piece of the pie.  

[flannj]

2) Expenses will go up (compliance won't be cheap). Income will go way down (who's going to want to waste a Saturday at State College to watch a sad sack team)?

Intrepid Readers: 103,000 fans

WE ARE.

 

2012 Football Season Tickets


Select your section
  BLACK ZONE $600 PER SEAT DONATION REQ'D
$385.00  Adult
  RED ZONE $400 PER SEAT DONATION REQ'D
$385.00  Adult
  Blue Chairback $100 Per Seat donation Req'd
$448.00  Adult
  BLUE ZONE $100 PER SEAT DONATION REQ'D
$385.00  Adult


Pricing for single game tickets has changed for the coming year to better reflect the per game pricing of a season ticket, which beginning with the 2011 season incorporated a Nittany Lion Club per seat donation amount. Those amounts, based on seat locations in Beaver Stadium, have been applied to the per game ticket price in order to protect the value to all season ticket holders and the NLC priority point system. The price for Blue Zone public single game tickets remains the same as the last two seasons.


The 2012 public single game ticket prices are:
Green Zone (lower midfield) - Not available Black Zone (between 30-yard lines) - $140 per ticket Red Zone (10 to 30-yard lines) - $110 per ticket Blue Zone (end zones to 10-yard-lines) - $70 (bench) and $74 (chairback) per ticket

"This pricing allows us to offer tickets to the general public in all seating areas while assuring that the season ticket and donation commitments that our Nittany Lion Club members have made are not devalued or compromised," explained Associate Athletic Director Greg Myford. "This change greatly highlights the value of joining the Nittany Lion Club and being a season ticket holder, while still offering single game tickets to the public."

The bolded part mad me laugh.

EDIT:

2012 Club Seat Pricing
(Per Seat)

Lease Term: Per Year OR Pre-payment Total
The 10 year lease should read: $1,320.00 with the prepayment total remaining the same at $9,180.00
The 7 year lease should read: $1,510.00 with the prepayment total remaining the same at $8,085.00
The 5 year lease should read: $1,710.00 with the prepayment total remaining the same at $7,000.00

A Nittany Lion Club contribution and the cost of tickets are additional charges
All annual payments will be subject to a 2% increase

Ouch.

[Slaky]

I have little doubt that these morons will pack the place and wait out the years until the football team is back to prominence. It may wane a little after a few seasons but this year the fans are going to off the charts annoying, loud and sickeningly use what's happened as some kind of fucked up motivation to cheer harder than ever before.

What a terrible place.

[Internet Apex]

I have little doubt that these morons will pack the place and wait out the years until the football basketball team is back to prominence. It may wane a little after a few seasons but this year the fans are going to off the charts annoying, loud and sickeningly use what's happened as some kind of fucked up motivation to cheer harder than ever before.

What a terrible place.

Bob Knight and Indiana'd.

[Brownie]

I have little doubt that these morons will pack the place and wait out the years until the football basketball team is back to prominence. It may wane a little after a few seasons but this year the fans are going to off the charts annoying, loud and sickeningly use what's happened as some kind of fucked up motivation to cheer harder than ever before.

What a terrible place.

Bob Knight and Indiana'd.

Not until after Indiana's win over UK in December were IU basketball tickets hard to come by. Seriously, they might come out for the first couple of games. But after mind-numbing after mind-numbing defeat, especially to teams that should be a bye to them (like IU), they'll not want to invest a whole day in State College moaning about how the NCAA fucked them over burgers and bad beer when they can stay home and do the same.

Hell, the Cubs are doing a massive rebuilding and apparently you can buy bleacher seats to this weekend's games vs. St. Louis in the 20s. And the Cubs are suffering from having a lot of players being bad at baseball, not raping people.

(Starlin Castro hasn't been charged, you know).

[CBStew]

Penn State Football is a THING.  It's a living, breathing all-consuming Thing.  It had to be destroyed.  I'm still pissed the NCAA didn't use the death penalty here, but I'll take what I can get.

Are you sure that you aren't thinking of USC?  They are back and worse than before.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

So the November 13, 2010 game between Penn State and Ohio State now never happened, right?

[Internet Apex]

So the November 13, 2010 game between Penn State and Ohio State now never happened, right?

I guess it happened but both teams lost. Which is awesome.

[Brownie]

So Curtis Enis was the star of the last Nittany Lions team to win?

[CT III]

Penn State Football is a THING.  It's a living, breathing all-consuming Thing.  It had to be destroyed.  I'm still pissed the NCAA didn't use the death penalty here, but I'll take what I can get.

Are you sure that you aren't thinking of USC?  They are back and worse than before.

Of course I'm thinking of USC - GO GAMECOCKS!

[CBStew]

Penn State Football is a THING.  It's a living, breathing all-consuming Thing.  It had to be destroyed.  I'm still pissed the NCAA didn't use the death penalty here, but I'll take what I can get.

Are you sure that you aren't thinking of USC?  They are back and worse than before.

Of course I'm thinking of USC - GO GAMECOCKS!

Gamecocks and Trojans.  Go figure.

[Bort]

Penn State Football is a THING.  It's a living, breathing all-consuming Thing.  It had to be destroyed.  I'm still pissed the NCAA didn't use the death penalty here, but I'll take what I can get.

Are you sure that you aren't thinking of USC?  They are back and worse than before.

Of course I'm thinking of USC - GO GAMECOCKS!

Something something WOFFORD.

[Quality Start Machine]

At last, perspective.

[CubFaninHydePark]

At last, perspective.

This is what I'd expect from a city so poorly managed they had to pay their cops and firefighters minimum wage because they couldn't make payroll.