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Originally Posted by nuggetsyl
How much does you fooball team cost your school????? Yet they find money for that.
shaun
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Actually, our football plan is completely privately funded.
I should know. I played for it, and helped sell the Varsity Gold Cards that paid for it.
That said, football is an institution. Football is a sport that everyone knows and most everyone cares about to some degree. FIRST does not have that cachet. I go to William and Mary, a few hours away from Dave Lavery and VCU, and I've yet to meet anyone who's even heard of FIRST.
Dean is right when he says that football will not provide as many jobs for people as FIRST will. But he also misses the point--people don't do football because they want to be NFL players necessarily, but because it's fun as hell. But Dean hates sports. This is the man who said that walking was "an unfortunate remnant of the dark ages" while promoting the Segway.
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Originally Posted by Stuart
yeah here in texas they find the money for football by cutting art/music/AP classes.
but I must agree with the above poster that the problem is not mentorship its sponsership . . pearce(1745) has been trying to form a team for the past 5 years, and it was only this year that some how we scavanged 6k before the deadline(see. miracle)
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Look at "Friday Night Lights" for a good example of a football program that is over the top.
Football has been a school institution for over 100 years--we can't expect FIRST to show the same potential in a 10th of that.
Also, don't forget that football generates revenue through ticket sales, merch sales, and (in big programs), television sales. Does FIRST do that? Not unless you do a postseason regional...
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Originally Posted by FreedomForce
You should have your letter handwritten and mailed off for like (whats the price of stamps again, they always seem to go up) $.37USD or $.39USD (w/e it is), that way, it is ALWAYS filtered by hand. and it has a better chance of getting on your congressman's desk. also, you can send a seprete copy to FIRST Place, or Dean's Personal Resedence. with a recipt from Kinko's or the UPS store for like $.10USD.
Im gona do my letter for my team before the Florida Regional, so we can hand it to the Governer himself when he is there on friday.
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Great suggestion. I may well do that.
--Petey