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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
Out of curiosity, how much of the cost we pay right now is going to pay for the regional venues? Simply switching to a high-school gym (even if we kept all the lighting, A/V, etc) might be a big money-saver. I've heard some numbers tossed around regarding some of the venue costs and those numbers were pretty big (but I don't know if they were at all accurate).
Anybody have a rough idea of the typical cost for a venue? Are we talking $1,000, $10,000, or $100,000? I'd guess it's between the last two.
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The Carolina Coliseum, USC's older arena (which may or may not be standing in ten years due to most of the main tenants, the Columbia Inferno hockey team and USC's journalism school in the basement, moving elsewhere) charges
$4500 a day for the venue. That's just to get yourself an empty arena--the total costs, I bet, are actually far higher.