UT Eliminates Free Hot Dogs and Cokes At Basketball Games...Cites Economy
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Even more implausibly, this is reported to save $80,000 a year. I want this accountant. Since when do you get to cite the concession stand cost as the amount you save?
"In the past, support staff were allowed to get a free hot dog and a soft drink during the games, which retailed about $7. Also each game was staffed with the same number of ushers, but UT says it will now depend on fan attendance."
Doesn't this cost include a substantial profit? Also, what does a coke and a hotdog legitimately cost UT? Let's say you and I went into business selling cokes and hotdogs outside of Thompson-Boling, don't you think we could sell a combo for $2 and still make a decent profit after a trip to stock-up at Wal-Mart? Or, even better, we could go to a retailer that pays their employees a living wage...like Costco.
But even taking these numbers at their face value, this means that UT is giving away 11,429 (rounding up) cokes and hot-dogs to their ushers. By my count there are 34 men's and women's home games (counting exhibitions). This means that support staff are consuming 336 hotdogs and cokes a game. Which, we're to believe, costs the university $2,352 per game.
God, this is too much math. Anyway, let's talk about whether Brian Williams will jump high enough to have both feet leave the floor at the same time this season. Or about whether the IRS is likely to quibble with the fact that I showed a loss of $4,568,948 during the writing of On Rocky Top this fall. On my itemization line, I'm writing Crompton, Jonathan. Labels: hot dogs cokes eliminated ut basketball games
Posted by Clay Travis at 10:08 AM
 
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