Marc Ganis
Marc Ganis
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It is economically if not physically obsolete. When you have a special event like Sugar Bowl or Super Bowl, people care less about how far away the field is or a bathroom in the luxury box. But for annual ticket buyers, it's a big deal to them.
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The primary reason you're seeing more self funding is that the easy deals with the local governments are pretty much done. We don't have local government budget surpluses any more. It takes more creative financing.
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They are girding for the uncapped year. They're planning for it. It's getting to the point where the two sides are so entrenched that getting a deal will be very difficult.
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They are girding for the uncapped year, ... They're planning for it. It's getting to the point where the two sides are so entrenched that getting a deal will be very difficult.
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Once you announce you're moving the team, you give up your key piece of leverage. When they moved, a new stadium deal was expected to take a matter of months. It took eight years.
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I say that from some personal knowledge and from the historical perspective of nothing happening in South Florida to get a stadium deal done.
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They are a cash machine. They print money, ... While there is no revenue pressure, they'll try to keep certain things pristine.
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Fans really want to feel intimate with the action. This is part of what has made the NBA so successful. You can almost smell the sweat.
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Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.
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The teams in smaller markets, like Jacksonville and Cincinnati, got their stadiums first. Then it was the big markets' turn -- Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, and soon New York and Dallas. The disparities between markets have become magnified.
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The Superdome has been one of the greatest sports facility investment a community has ever made, ... But it would be significantly diminished if the Saints left.
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Sometimes deadlines help and sometimes they don't make much of a difference. They rarely hurt, unless they are arbitrary or excessively short. But if you are working in good faith and the deadlines can be extended if progress is being made, they work well.
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It doesn't have to be some sort of brand new, $1 billion stadium like what was planned for New York.
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Fox just had to overpay on a rights fee basis for the Celtics games in order to keep the lights on the Boston market, ... So they're saving a lot of money owning the Dodgers. If the Dodgers' broadcast rights were up for public bid right now, they could go to an astronomical sum, and that would mean either a loss of programming for Fox or far greater costs.