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CAN UNC AFFORD BUTCH DAVIS?

by MrTarheel

Butch Davis, the new North Carolina Tar Heel football coach, will be paid a handsome salary and other compensation for running the UNC program. Ever wonder if it is worth it?

Let's do some math on the back of my napkin here.....

UNC Football has been averaging 51,000 to 53,000 fans at their home games the last few years I believe. Kenan stadium can fit up to 62,000. So, if Butch can take the average attendance up from 52,000 to 60,000 then that is an extra 8,000 fans each game. 8000 tickets at say $35 a ticket would be $280,000 per game additional revenue. And with 6 home games that's almost 1.7 million dollars each year!

Butch comp - $1,800,000 (estimate)
Bunting comp - $600,000 ?
A difference of $1.2 mill....so if UNC football generates $1.7 mill more each year in ticket sales then they have already made an extra $500,000!

Of course, my numbers could be off a bit. But even if they are, you can see that it can make great economic sense to have Butch Davis as the UNC football coach.

And I haven't even counted the extra food sales, merchandise sales, the impact on the Franklin street businesses, the better TV revenue that might result from a winning team, the bowl game revenue....

Can UNC afford Butch Davis? Of course! ( remember, I am assuming he will win! )

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won 37 team national championships in five different sports, 9th all-time, and 51 individual national championships. The UNC women's soccer team has won eighteen national championships since 1981; the men's soccer team won the championship in 2001; the women's basketball team in 1994; the UNC Tarheels basketball (men's) team in 1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, and 2005; the UNC men's lacrosse team in 1982, 1986, and 1991; the UNC women's field hockey team in 1985, 1995, 1996, and 1997; the women's team handball team won in 2004; and the men's team handball team has won the last three National Championships in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The Carolina men's crew team won the 2004 ECAC National Invitational Collegiate Regatta in the varsity eight category. The North Carolina Men's Baseball team is also a perennial power, and in 2006 made it to the Championship round of the College World Series.