I don't have the numbers, '66.  I had them last week but I threw them and the checks in the recycler--as I realized when I went to mail that stuff but realized all I had in my hand was the stuff that didn't support my alternative-take-on-the-thruth numbers (which I'd meant to recycle).

Our costs are probably about the same--a home game at Peden whether on TV or not.  Does the TV revenue more than offset any lessening in revenue which might occur from having a game midweek instead of weekend?  Are there other factors--such as, perhaps, more alum and friends see the game and are impressed and so donations go up as affinity builds.

Wanamaker--you're close to the University.  Can you, please, do the thorough and specific financial analysis?

In the most extreme circumstance I'll say that having a game midweek in early October over having one of the weekend is costing Ohio 4,000 paying customers at 20 dollars a ticket. That is 80,000 dollars of revenue lost. The ESPN TV deal with the MAC is paying each school about 100,000 dollars a year. That Ohio has about 1 midweek game and that midweek game is replacing a normally weak drawing late season game I would argue that Ohio probably comes out ahead in this game. The long term prospects of the per school value of the TV contract increasing are better than the net loss in tcket sales growing from a mid week appearance. TV paying 500,000 per MAC school a year is just around the corner while ticket sales will probably remain flat.