re: 2012 revenues per USA Today

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Even more interesting.

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Agreed. Not really all that surprising though. Their issue came from people not renewing their premium football seating last year -- since the price for those tickets essentially doubled with the CGA's to build the basketball arena kicking in -- and practically everyone expecting them to be terrible. That "issue" was likely remedied in a single year though -- since they won more than they were supposed to and are very optimistic going into the future.

Our numbers was also in spite of our basketball program having the worst in several decades this past year(which was expected) -- and the Hump being mostly empty all year, while OM was sold out at basketball and riding a historic season by their standards. I think I read somewhere that our basketball revenue was off about $4mil this year against our usual mean.

Our stadium expansion should bring in an increase in revenue of about $8-10 mil/yr as well.

Overall, I think State's logical "ceiling" is about $85 mil/yr by 2014 -- still not really playing with the big boys -- but continuing to close the gap at least somewhat...(+$10mil for football, +$4mil for basketball, +$2mil for baseball which could go higher if/when the DNF rebuild is announced)...