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For all of the UCF bashers out there who are wondering why USF is willing to give up an extra home game to schedule two-for-ones against the likes of Alabama, Florida and Miami while UCF won’t, it’s really quite simple.
Just follow the money trail.
UCF makes a ton of money on its home games — between $3 and $4 million and rising as the Knights continue to find creative ways to add premium seating to Spectrum Stadium — while USF doesn’t make much money at all on a typical home game.
The Knights not only have a much bigger season-ticket base than the Bulls, they also — because they have their own on-campus stadium — get to keep everything they makes in ticket sales, concessions and parking. The Bulls have to pay for the use of city-owned Raymond James Stadium and hardly get any of the parking and concession money, which mostly goes to the city and the stadium’s main tenant — the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That right, the Bucs actually make money on Bulls games.
Running off at the typewriter …
For all of the UCF bashers out there who are wondering why USF is willing to give up an extra home game to schedule two-for-ones against the likes of Alabama, Florida and Miami while UCF won’t, it’s really quite simple.
Just follow the money trail.
UCF makes a ton of money on its home games — between $3 and $4 million and rising as the Knights continue to find creative ways to add premium seating to Spectrum Stadium — while USF doesn’t make much money at all on a typical home game.
The Knights not only have a much bigger season-ticket base than the Bulls, they also — because they have their own on-campus stadium — get to keep everything they makes in ticket sales, concessions and parking. The Bulls have to pay for the use of city-owned Raymond James Stadium and hardly get any of the parking and concession money, which mostly goes to the city and the stadium’s main tenant — the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That right, the Bucs actually make money on Bulls games.
