I will also say this whatever it’s worth. I’ve been everywhere around the world. The crazy working world that I cannot escape from doesn’t compare to The tranquility feeling I get from coming to Terre Haute. I absolutely love going to The Balley, and walking around campus. Cooper Bar? Off The charts.Just now seeing that the title of this thread is about the QB - thought I was in a different thread. Sort of nullified that point I was trying to make. I’m rusty. (*unless the thread got cleaned up) My bad!!
Anyway, I don’t know what the Mayor thinks - I just know what I think… In fact, I sat in a housing meeting the Mayor was in about 2 months ago and suggested that one of the best publicly owned pieces of real estate the City or County owns has Memorial Stadium sitting on it and once ISU does the right thing and gets rid of football that we can utilize that property for housing initiatives. I believe @meistro was in the room as well.
* I’m not naive - so many things would have to happen for that to ever become a reality. It was the principle of the matter for me to make that point.
Your point about hotels/restaurants is valid maybe two or three Saturday’s a year. I don’t think having football or not is going to make or break those entities. If they are two or three good weekends away from closing the doors they were never going to make it anyway. Bosco, Fords, Stables, Terminal, Charlie’s, Sonka all the TH staples make a killing every weekend with or without events going on. The hotel’s seem to be at or near capacity on a regular basis - the reason downtown is about to get a new hotel in the next 24 months. They don’t build hotels in areas that have “vacancy” issues… I appreciate the point you are trying to make it’s just that I’ve lived here my entire life and I have a pretty good grasp on these things and the impact a home football game really has on these entities. I assure you - the majority of them will not blink.
The only point for keeping it (for me) is the many friends I have that are football alumni themselves - I would really hate it for them to lose the football program that they played for. That doesn’t stop me from thinking logically about the situation - but I feel that I can still have sympathy if it ever came to that. It’s a touchy subject - I get that especially for those guys who put on the jersey for InState. That’s the only argument that really makes me pause.
I would not come if it wasn’t for Football HC.