(01-24-2018 07:54 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  Another thing not considered is that for each home football game at a place like Boone, NC it probably adds 5 million to the local economy.

There is the revenue coming in from FB and also the tourism money from the community.

1) FB is not as expensive on the student fee as what some people think.

2) FB at the G5 level brings in enough TV, marketing and game guarantee money to pay for it.

3) Local boost to the economy is per each home game is significant at the 25,000 per game level which is what the average G5 program is putting into the stands for a Saturday home football game.

Exactly this. It's different for big city G5's and college town G5's. At Georgia Southern and several other college town schools, for a large part of the year, the local economy depends on the success of the football team. When we're winning, the population of Statesboro almost doubles Saturdays. Since our move up, it's only had a larger positive effect.