According to a City of Dayton study.

With $75m, the city of Dayton could keep I-75 under construction for 1,000 years. Four more years than currently scheduled.

Eisenhower warned against the "Overpasses With Jets Carved Into Them-Industrial Complex"

Ike was quite the prophet.  Did he also warn about the "overpasses-with-starbricks-carved-into-them-industrial-complex"?  

In terms of the I-75 construction, I'm going there next weekend for the annual Hamvention and wondered if it was still like running hurdles in a hail storm to get from west-bound Rt. 35 to the north end of Dayton via I-75.  And, can one now get from Hara Arena to downtown without getting lost at least five times with totally incomprehensible detour signs and closed exits.  

Yes, Sir!  The world's largest annual gathering of amateur radio operators (i.e., "hams").  It's been held every year in Dayton since 1950s.  I haven't missed one in over 20 years.  

So, spending $72 million actual dollars would equal what they got out of the Elite 8 run?  That makes no sense.

The same people who calculate this are the ones who claim a  bottle of Tide will do more than 64 loads of laundry.

I'm guessing the police in Dayton might like to see their funds replenished after their Elite 8 expenditures:

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/05/20/rep.../

Good for the school, not the citizens of Dayton and the PD.  That $57,000 bill for the police is being paid for by the taxpayers while those millions go to something else.  The police department must feel like Forrest Gump and his buttocks wound, "the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars."

But if the City of Dayton had paid for all the free publicity it got from the Elite 8 run the money would have come from the taxpayers. Still seems like a good deal for the city and its citizens.

I am not the one saying the city of Dayton got $72 million worth of free publicity. The city of Dayton is saying that.

That sounds good in theory, but break it down.  What do all those things have in common?

-Enrollment
-University donations
-University event attendance
-Flyer pride...people buying Flyer gear at university stores?

All the direct financial benefits go to the University of Dayton...not the city.  Obviously if attendance is up at games next year, some local businesses will benefit from game day traffic, but all the things you mentioned directly benefit the school financially.  The school and the city are two different entities, are they not?  

Wouldn't it be the same situation if Ohio makes a good bowl game in football and wins, then people go nuts celebrating and wreck the town.  Couches ablaze, destruction of property, dogs and cats living together in harmony, mass hysteria.  The school will get a payday from the bowl game...the city gets stuck with the bill to clean up what used to be the Palmer and Mill St areas.  That bowl game money goes to the university, not the city of Athens.

Bottom line, 1) I think it's crap that the taxpayers have to foot the bill in Dayton and 2) I never thought of Dayton as a rowdy school/area that would react this way to a tourney run.