Do they know what they're doing? Because there is going to be no meet this year. Someone messed up epically.
No one shows up to NYC meets (like everywhere else). There’s probably financial loss organizing a meet there.
You are lying. I have been going to the NYC event at Carl I Stadium pretty consistently. Some years, the stands have been packed. Other years a few seats left. The events have all been well attended.
PK should build stadiums in South Manhattan & Hollywood for his Nike Virtual Studios, a fully union wage compliant, very highly paid arm, in "The Business", "On Broadway", located in NYC and LA sincw 2022.
Maybe people on here should support Grand Slam a little more because they seem to be motivated to make it work and listen to the people. They are also not funded by the USATF.
So, everyone blames Eugene, saying meets need to move around, which I don't necessarily disagree with, yet NYC, the biggest city in the US, can't host a GP meet? Again, track is not very popular. It's unfortunate, but it's also reality in the US.
I guess I’m not sure of the economics of it. The NYC meets (both NYCGP and Millrose) fill up at high prices (Millrose) and decently high ones (NYCGP). I’ve seen plenty of Silver/Gold European meets that draw worse and appear to have cheaper tickets. So there’s apparently other inputs outside of popularity as far as the gate (sponsorships, stadium costs, other associated costs in the US).
Most meetings in Eur elsewhere are free seats, by the municipaity or ruling dictator. The meeting is held rent free by the local athletics clubs It been that way for centuries.
Usain Bolt might have has something to do with the packed house?
I imagine when things were hot between their duel a couple of years ago, a Tuohy/Valby rematch in a New York stadium would have drawn a pretty good crowd.
USATF is too shortsighted and focused on getting money in their (executives) pocket immediately vs. fulfilling their mission of helping the sport domestically.
Even if the meet was a sellout they’d only gross like 200k. Optimistically that covers prize money, pacers, and appearance fees. There’s just no way you’re in the black after only ticket sales and concessions from a meet like this.
Ideally, and I think this was the plan originally, they’d expand this series in an effort to make track more popular domestically. In theory this would be a sacrifice upfront for future returns down the line, whether it be TV contracts, brand deals, etc.
Seems like USATF constantly does a bad job though. All their events are run by other people who have to pay USATF for the privilege of doing work for the association.
What killed Nike was the ObamaCare era funding for data science. Now geographers instatanly correlate Electric Util, Water Company, ISP Traffic, collected Sales Taxes, airline fligts, sewage flows, Air B N B, hotel stays, etc. against Track Town USA's seat sales claims.
What gibberish! ObamaCare era funding for data science?
No one shows up to NYC meets (like everywhere else). There’s probably financial loss organizing a meet there.
You are lying. I have been going to the NYC event at Carl I Stadium pretty consistently. Some years, the stands have been packed. Other years a few seats left. The events have all been well attended.
Can confirm. I just watched the Zagreb meet, it wasn’t close to full with a smaller home straight seating section, albeit a few hundred fans on the backstretch. Still probably fewer attendees, so I’ll take the posters word for it that the Europeans have a history of funding the meets that makes them workable financially.
Many try to blame Nike and Max but I think we have a cheap public that spends $Trlilions on Hollywood Pro Leauges like the NFL, PGA, MLB, etc. but only spend a few $million on T&F. You always hear little figures like $30M for GST and massive figures like the Yankees $1Billion payroll for 2025.
Breathe in, breathe out, take it easy. Feeling better? Well, now I can give you the bad news: Track and Field doesn't sell as good (not even close) as the leagues you mentioned. Track and Field is an afterthought. It's crap. Face it, even bare knuckles boxing gets better views.
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The Miracle of Scikit Machine Learning data science
What killed Nike was the ObamaCare era funding for data science. Now geographers instatanly correlate Electric Util, Water Company, ISP Traffic, collected Sales Taxes, airline fligts, sewage flows, Air B N B, hotel stays, etc. against Track Town USA's seat sales claims.
True. ObamaCare and later Covid19/mRNA tech would not have been possible if not for computer experts condensed trillions of medical records, prescriptions, handwritten ledgers into digestible data for doctors to easily read.
