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Post by Rogobob77 on Jan 17, 2023 15:46:37 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Jan 17, 2023 15:57:40 GMT -5
Wow!
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Post by fan on Jan 17, 2023 17:53:53 GMT -5
St Thomas is in the Summit and the Pioneer Football League, looks like the Pioneer could use a Michigan member... lets's do it.
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Post by titansforever on Jan 17, 2023 18:19:08 GMT -5
Now they just need to raise another $100 million or so! St. Thomas has made some big strides since going DI.
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Post by happy on Jan 17, 2023 19:17:00 GMT -5
St Thomas is in the Summit and the Pioneer Football League, looks like the Pioneer could use a Michigan member... lets's do it. Agree
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Post by titansforever on Jan 18, 2023 13:34:04 GMT -5
We could do a lot of upgrading to Calihan and Titan Field with $75 million, and still have a good chunk left over for a sizeable athletic endowment.
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Post by fan on Jan 18, 2023 14:42:38 GMT -5
The Detroit area is home to some of the largest consumer advertising companies. GM, Ford, Domino, Little Ceasers, Rocket, and United Morgage. The Pistons have sold uniform logo rights to United Mortgage (UMS). Surely someone out there in the SE Michigan area would pay for the naming rights to Calihan. The Calihan name can stay part of the name. Gonzaga sold their fieldhouse naming rights to a casino. A big enough check could endow the improvements needed and buy the way into the 5 team western slot with Xavier, Marquette, DePaul Creighton, and Butler, A big-name sponsor and the sponsors cash would make it happen.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Jan 18, 2023 15:33:07 GMT -5
The Detroit area is home to some of the largest consumer advertising companies. GM, Ford, Domino, Little Ceasers, Rocket, and United Morgage. The Pistons have sold uniform logo rights to United Mortgage (UMS). Surely someone out there in the SE Michigan area would pay for the naming rights to Calihan. The Calihan name can stay part of the name. Gonzaga sold their fieldhouse naming rights to a casino. A big enough check could endow the improvements needed and buy the way into the 5 team western slot with Xavier, Marquette, DePaul Creighton, and Butler, A big-name sponsor and the sponsors cash would make it happen. I don’t think the revenue-generating ceiling for granting naming rights on a 70-year old arena that is used almost exclusively for non-professional basketball games (that typically draw about a thousand fans) is going to get the Titans the option to unilaterally buy into a major conference like the Big East. Assuming a large corporation can be found to finance/endow major improvements to UDM facilities (you say “surely” but I’m not so sure), admission to the Big East (currently the #4 rated league in NET) is not something that a school simply can buy into. There needs to be a determination by any major conference that it is in its own financial and overall best interests to add additional school(s) (to share its television and tournament shares revenue with) and a candidate institution deemed attractive enough to warrant consideration would need to demonstrate it has great facilities for multiple collegiate sports, recent winning success (again in multiple sports but especially men’s basketball), a solid fan base and corresponding history of strong attendance, etc. In addition to the money to make front-end facility improvements, the school would need to show it has the budgetary resources to cover conference exit and entry fees (multiple millions) and greatly increased long-term travel expenditures in all sports offered. Personnel costs are also scaled significantly higher in the top echelons of college basketball. What’s a typical salary for a MBB head coach in the BE? Villanova is shelling out a reported $4.4 million for their guy. St. Thomas is investing well over $100 million just to be a player in the Summit League. What would make Detroit Mercy a stronger candidate for admission to the Big East than say programs like Dayton (the Flyers sell out their 13,000+ capacity arena every game, see daytonflyers.com/news/2022/10/19/mens-basketball-basketball-sells-out-2022-23-season-once-again.aspx ) or St. Louis (a Jesuit school with a $2.5 billion endowment, about 25 times larger than UDM’s stash). If a school could simply buy its way into a top-tier league like the BE, those two schools would have already done it. Comerica Bank pays about $2 million a year to pay for naming rights attached to the local Major League Baseball facility. Even at that revenue level (which Calihan naming rights could never come close to generating), the derived income wouldn’t pay for a typical MBB head coach’s salary in the Big East. On a side night note, if as you say Gonzaga sold naming rights for their arena to a gambling casino, it is not reflected on the website for the venue (https://gozags.com/facilities/mccarthey-athletic-center/1) or elsewhere I could find on an internet search. “The Motor City Casino Arena at Detroit Mercy’s Calihan Hall” does not seem to be a good branding match for a gaming house IMO, not that I would expect it to happen.
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