Quote:
Originally Posted by Madison
I don't believe that for half a second.
|
Yeah I'm with you on that. 1st off, you're telling me you planned on leaving the Dome Floor emptier then last year. Then the concert just happened to come up after the fact. When you have prime space like that, you do something with it, just don't leave it empty.
I understand why Bill would say that. As someone who's done PR in the past, sometimes when you make an unpopular descison mainly based on a pragmatic reason, you need to let the public a lesser idealistic reason to back it up. I'm sure the idea of having Dome feel more balanced did come up, but I'm sure that was only after the fact the idea of moving the 2 fields came to fruition, and FIRST chose to use that as the main reasons for good PR.
Also as Jane said, by using the balancing of programs as their reason will allow FIRST to continue this practice without a concert in the future. Now I'm sure some right now are thinking, that's horrible and I can't believe they would do that. Thing though. What if Collegiate FIRST comes to being as not just a pilot? To get them in the Dome, someone's gotta go, and at the moment FRC has the most real-estate.
With that said, I still don't appreciate FIRST not owning-up to the real reasons, or using a weak excuse, but it is what it is.
That said, I still thank will.i.am for his performance, as you yourself have done nothing wrong and doing something amazing for this organization!
Hope everyone out there has a fun weekend!