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I disagree HD, re Lemonis shutting up. Imo, Lemonis appears (in this article) to be the reasonable party willing to work out a deal. The board appears to be the hardball player.
Camping World will just advertise via a different means in Shreveport and move on.
All I took from the article was the guy explaining why he was moving on. He'd put a lot of time, money & effort into the community and he felt compelled to explain his side of why things hadn't worked out. Makes sense since they're putting a store in Shreveport and needs the community's support for it to succeed. From the article, he just stated the facts as he saw them and wanted to make it clear he tried to make a deal. He even said he'd have been willing to pay more in future years if the numbers improved.
With luck this will put some pressure on the committee to make some changes & get their act together. Lemonis may have done the I-bowl a favor. If they don't change things up soon you have to wonder if we're looking at its last days.
Last edited by tenacious_dog; 01-20-2017 at 05:46 PM.
You missed the point.Originally Posted by rabiddawg
....So, if you owned a business, you wouldn't care if you pissed off a lot of local customers or potential customers by getting into an unnecessary squabble with a bowl game that you intended to withdraw your support from anyway? Okay.
Lots of free advertising here for Camping World/Lemonis. When he does the "big splash" promotion investment around his new store "creating new jobs in Shreveport, investing in Shreveport for the long-term,..." he will be a local hero at a fraction of the I-Bowl investment!
Kinda like what the I-bowl committee has done for years with Louisiana Tech? Ironic isn't it.You missed the point.
....So, if you owned a business, you wouldn't care if you pissed off a lot of local customers or potential customers by getting into an unnecessary squabble with a bowl game that you intended to withdraw your support from anyway? Okay.
I see what you're saying, but I think it's really a no-win for him. If he stays silent, the inbred mouth-breathers running the bowl will lie about what happened and spin it as him hanging out Shreveport to dry, not acting in good faith, etc. (a la our own debacle). That might actually hurt him more. He needs to move on, but I think it was important for him to state for the record that there was a good faith attempt made on his part.You missed the point.
....So, if you owned a business, you wouldn't care if you pissed off a lot of local customers or potential customers by getting into an unnecessary squabble with a bowl game that you intended to withdraw your support from anyway? Okay.
Marcus Lemonis has a pretty good track record. He made an offer to the I-Bowl and they refused. He made a good business decision. The I-Bowl had no leverage but negotiated like they did.You missed the point.
....So, if you owned a business, you wouldn't care if you pissed off a lot of local customers or potential customers by getting into an unnecessary squabble with a bowl game that you intended to withdraw your support from anyway? Okay.
I love it, screw those bastards.
I sense the locals agree with him.You missed the point.
....So, if you owned a business, you wouldn't care if you pissed off a lot of local customers or potential customers by getting into an unnecessary squabble with a bowl game that you intended to withdraw your support from anyway? Okay.
HD, Cliff and I are fishing in the same pond.
Lemonis' will spend and market his way into the hearts of his perspective customers in Shreveport.
Additionally, I don't think Shreveport is in love with the Indy bowl or ts committee
Still, nothing will change with that I-Bowl committee. They are stuck in a feed-back bubble, satisfied with their superior views.
The only way to change them is to sit back and watch the bowl wither away and die. Then, there would be a good possibility to revive and rename it; with a better group running it.
Shreveport has no love for anything other than LSU, and LSU couldn't care less about anything in Shreveport. The closest thing the city of Shreveport will ever have to a "home" team is Tech, but most people in Shreveport simply don't care anything about Tech. In fact, most of them think Tech should be closed and that state money shifted to LSUS.
So, some scientific survey was conducted polling Shreveporters and the results were 50+% agreed Tech should be closed to support LSUS. Where can we find that survey with its results?
Agreed. That's a ridiculous claim.
Please...PLEASE...make this one of you Profit episodes, Marcus. If you don't have video of all of the conversations, hell, make it up. LOL!
$550k is not the entire revenue stream, but its way more than what the IBowl has collected to help pay bills.
Louisiana Tech University
Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
To move UP the selection order of the $EC and ACC the I-Bowl will have to pay MORE than the $2.4M ($1.2M/team) payout. Otherwise they will keep getting 6-6 or worse teams that their fans won't travel to watch. The bowl needs MORE sponsorship money, not less.
The $EC and ACC are just bleeding them dry until they can no longer pay, then they will "upgrade" to another bowl once the I-Bowl is dead. The committee members are not smart enough and have too much personal ego to see a better solution.
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