FB: American Rivers Conference

[the_mayne_event]

I love the profile pic. of Lynch...he looks like he's about 45 year old and homeless.

Does anyone know more about an "exclusive rights" player? Sounds like Fred basically has to sign for whatever they offer or he has to holdout.

i talked with someone that works with Patrick (fredy's brother) - Bills have exclusive rights for this contract only.  they could sign him for a minimum contract, but if they do that, and he blows up over the next couple years, there is no way he woudl resign him.  he could also hold out - which woudl work if lynch is suspended.  i woudl they they would give him a pretty decent contract.  i heard from my friend they were thinking somewhere in the 3-4 years 2-3 mil range.

[sportsknight]

I couln't resist telling an old guy's story. 

I saw my first Cub's opening day back in 1966 when I was in seminary in Chicago ... on the north side ... a 25-cent "El" ride from Fullerton up to Wrigley Field.  I think we paid $1.50 for mezzanine seats and both beer and hot dogs were a bargain in those days.  Leo Durocher was managing the Cubs ... and Ferguson Jenkins, who had been acquired from the Phillies, was the opening day pitcher.  It was love at first sight when I walked into Wrigley ... what a ballpark!  Anyway, I'll never forget Jenkin's game winning home-run (I'm sure it was in the 9th).  What a day!

Exhibit #432 why DBQ1965 is one of the most interesting guys around here.  Be sure to let me know the next time you make it back to Dubuque.  I'll buy you a drink in exchange for a few minutes of your stories.

My good buddy press_box was able to snag 6 tickets for the Cubs-Twins Saturday game at Wrigley on June 13, so that is the current date of my annual pilgrimage to Wrigley.  Although I'm hoping to go whenever the Wartburg "Outfly" game is too.

Speaking of baseball, recruiting just got a bit easier for all the IIAC schools, since it sounds like UNI is going to be dropping their program after this season.  Waterloo Courier and CR Gazette are both reporting it, so the long-rumored move is finally being made by the Panthers of Cedar Falls.  I don't think this would have happened if Rick Hartzell was still UNI's AD, but that's a whole other discussion.

[DBQ1965]

I couln't resist telling an old guy's story. 

I saw my first Cub's opening day back in 1966 when I was in seminary in Chicago ... on the north side ... a 25-cent "El" ride from Fullerton up to Wrigley Field.  I think we paid $1.50 for mezzanine seats and both beer and hot dogs were a bargain in those days.  Leo Durocher was managing the Cubs ... and Ferguson Jenkins, who had been acquired from the Phillies, was the opening day pitcher.  It was love at first sight when I walked into Wrigley ... what a ballpark!  Anyway, I'll never forget Jenkin's game winning home-run (I'm sure it was in the 9th).  What a day!

Exhibit #432 why DBQ1965 is one of the most interesting guys around here.  Be sure to let me know the next time you make it back to Dubuque.  I'll buy you a drink in exchange for a few minutes of your stories.

My good buddy press_box was able to snag 6 tickets for the Cubs-Twins Saturday game at Wrigley on June 13, so that is the current date of my annual pilgrimage to Wrigley.  Although I'm hoping to go whenever the Wartburg "Outfly" game is too.

Speaking of baseball, recruiting just got a bit easier for all the IIAC schools, since it sounds like UNI is going to be dropping their program after this season.  Waterloo Courier and CR Gazette are both reporting it, so the long-rumored move is finally being made by the Panthers of Cedar Falls.  I don't think this would have happened if Rick Hartzell was still UNI's AD, but that's a whole other discussion.

Thanks sportsnight!

Someday I'll tell the story of the 12-minute movie I made at Wrigley Field in 1968.

[5 Words or Less]

Wisconsin dropped baseball in 1992

BASEBALL; Wisconsin Votes to Drop Baseball
April 21, 1991

The University of Wisconsin athletic board rebuffed pleas from student-athletes and voted, 10-7, on Friday to drop baseball and four other sports next year to close a $1.9 million budget deficit.

Wisconsin would become the only Big Ten Conference school without a men's baseball program if the athletic board's plan receives final approval by the university's board of regents.

The athletic board was asked to reconsider its decision in March to eliminate baseball, men's and women's gymnastics and men's and women's fencing because some faculty members on the board were absent for the first vote.

As the second vote approached, an alumni group organized a campaign urging the board to reconsider its decision and some 300 students demonstrated on campus Thursday.

[5 Words or Less]

Was baseball deemed too expensive?

		Operating	Team
UNI		Expenses	Total
2007	Number of	per	Operating
Sport	Participants	Participants	Expenses
Basketball	16	$24,142	$386,269
Football	105	$4,203	$441,339
Baseball	35	$6,156	$215,446
Track - In/Out	112	$1,276	$142,902
Golf	15	$2,226	$33,397
Wrestling	30	$2,691	$80,719

Cross Country info wasn't listed

Source: U.S. Department of Education (via Doolittle's link) http://www.ope.ed.gov/athletics/InstList.aspx

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2007 IIAC Football Revenues & Expenses

		Operating
		Expenses	Team
IIAC	Number of	per	Operating	Total	Total
School	Participants	Participant	Expenses	Expenses	Revenue	Comment
Buena Vista	80	$703	$56,229	$325,455	$351,166
Central	126	$592	$74,565	$297,548	$357,625
Coe	95	$819	$77,849	$271,565	$287,488
Cornell	64	$1,205	$77,108	$284,079	$286,526	Money can't buy you love
Dubuque	118	$1,164	$137,300	$448,102	$449,166	Redlands trip spread over 2 years?
Loras	101	$672	$67,825	$275,945	$275,945
Luther	102	$540	$55,125	$228,915	$258,590	Is Frugality a Lutheran Virtue?
Simpson	99	$731	$77,363	$323,084	$282,224
Wartburg	158	$318	$50,190	$246,228	$246,228	Volume, Volume, Volume!!!

Source: U.S. Department of Education (via Doolittle's link) http://www.ope.ed.gov/athletics/InstList.aspx

[the_mayne_event]

Was baseball deemed too expensive?

UNI now has 4 mens sports and 9 womens sports
it's too bad about the baseball team, they were good.
one thing that probably didnt help them was that they didnt have their own stadium, and had to rent out the bucks stadium.

[warthog]

5 Words or Less:

In your opinion, will the action at UW-Madison set off a chain reaction of athletic department cost saving measures at the UW-D3 universities? 

[5 Words or Less]

5 Words or Less:

In your opinion, will the action at UW-Madison set off a chain reaction of athletic department cost saving measures at the UW-D3 universities? 

No - D1 travel costs dwarf D3

[Walston Hoover]

2007 IIAC Football Revenues & Expenses

		Operating
		Expenses	Team
IIAC	Number of	per	Operating	Total	Total
School	Participants	Participant	Expenses	Expenses	Revenue	Comment
Buena Vista	80	$703	$56,229	$325,455	$351,166
Central	126	$592	$74,565	$297,548	$357,625
Coe	95	$819	$77,849	$271,565	$287,488
Cornell	64	$1,205	$77,108	$284,079	$286,526	Money can't buy you love
Dubuque	118	$1,164	$137,300	$448,102	$449,166	Redlands trip spread over 2 years?
Loras	101	$672	$67,825	$275,945	$275,945
Luther	102	$540	$55,125	$228,915	$258,590	Is Frugality a Lutheran Virtue?
Simpson	99	$731	$77,363	$323,084	$282,224
Wartburg	158	$318	$50,190	$246,228	$246,228	Volume, Volume, Volume!!!

Source: U.S. Department of Education (via Doolittle's link) http://www.ope.ed.gov/athletics/InstList.aspx
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Any Idea how the what counts as revenue? I assume donations specifically for the football program + gate revenue?

[Pat Coleman]

I've been working under assumption that it was a combination of what the school budgets for football plus whatever outside fundraising the program does.

[Purple Heys]

Regarding UNI and baseball.

I wonder how this will affect the kid from Jr.'s high school who came to UNI to both wrestle and play baseball.  His name is Anthony Meza and he went to Vista HS.  He was a classmate of Senorita Heys and they were the male and female Athletes of the Year for 2008 at VHS

He was 2-time CA State Champ (kinda rare) and is a very good baseball player.  Given that college wrestling in California is almost all but kaput, I know he wanted to do both in college and that UNI was one of the few places (if there were any others) that would allow him to do both.

[Purple Heys]

Anybody watching the Combine?

There's a D3 QB from Hartwick that got some pub for his Benchpressing.

[Purple Heys]

His last name is Boltus

[Purple Heys]

5 Words or Less:

In your opinion, will the action at UW-Madison set off a chain reaction of athletic department cost saving measures at the UW-D3 universities? 

No - D1 travel costs dwarf D3

4 Words or Less:

Is it the Mascots?