(03-14-2018 03:22 PM)KenneySense Wrote: Temple has never paid 3 million a year and isnt now or for the next two years of an extended lease signed at Temple's request.
Temple has not attempted to negotiate a long term lease because they want to build a stadium and use the fabricated figures presented by its since fired President to provide that rationale.
Temple isnt building a single extra parking space to accommodate 30,000 people on campus (for the 1st game anyway.) There are 11,000 dedicated parking spaces for football at the Linc. Temple's plans call for 0 and a free for all for available parking not used by students, employees and residents currently.
If Temple and city leaders cant resolve a lease playing in a vacant stadium on saturdays built in part with taxpayer monies, they should all be led to the top of City Hall and thrown off William Penn's hat......but they dont want to do that. There's some rubles to made by developers, pols and Temple's BoT's so you just continue to play the role of village idiot and accept Yulman II will be a great success at 15th and Norris.
The $3mill number is the number that's out there and is the most accepted in addition to the rehab fee of over $10mill. The fact of the matter is that the Eagles don't want Temple to play in their stadium and the Eagles never denied the figure just that Temple hasn't come to them to negotiate a new lease. Do you blame them?
The only other option would be where the soccer team plays in Chester which I think holds about $25k. Remember the last time that idea was floated? Villanova's third rate football program tried to pitch that to the old Big East and it single handedly broke it up. At least Temple could sell that stadium out but as stated, that idea is not an option.
Of course, you didn't get my point about parking so I'll try to write in a manner that even my 10 year old would understand. Temple, at this point, gets zero, nada, nothing for parking fees. Let's say Temple has 3,500 parking spots available. Those spots would be at a premium and Temple would take advantage of that by charging premium pricing. For arguments sake, let's say they charged $50 (probably more, I know) a spot for 3,500 spots. That would equate to $175,000/game or $1.05mill per year. That's money Temple is currently not getting. Same for concessions, same for naming rights, etc. Now, the great thing about Philly and where Temple is located is that they have subway, bus and regional rail line access. Less parking? Yes but better and more public transportation options currently than the Linc provides.
As far as I've read, Temple isn't relying on public money. It's a combination of private donations and debt financing of which most will be covered by whatever the Eagles would hike their rent up to in 2021. So what's the problem? Do you live in North Philadelphia? I doubt it but please correct me if I'm wrong. I know you're not a Temple fan because you called all of them dumb. I'm just curious to know what your motivation is other than trolling the Temple fan base.
Let them build their stadium and if they fall flat on their face and they're stuck with debt financing and have to drop their program then you can come back here and say I told you so all without any money coming out of your pocket. But I doubt that will happen.
I'm sure most Temple fans will enjoy having their own stadium even with none of the amenities that the Linc provides.