TheKing
Colin Windon (37)
I think the end result is that the private schools are a business, and rugby success is good for business in the sense that the canteens make money, and the support groups make money. Winning the premiership gets increased numbers of kids playing, old boys at the game, and ultimately more money in the school.
It'd be interesting to find out how relative Rugby success is to enrolments each year.
Like the boosting analogy I made before, I can see the days when schoolboy rugby gets to the point where it's like the NCAA tournaments in the US, where schools compete in luring young players to play on their teams, forcing them to maintain a high Grade Point Average to play for the school, banning meetings with agents and professional coaches until they finish the school year, etc etc etc etc. Games like last years 'Grand Final' between Nudgee and BGS attracted a crowd of maybe 7000 people, and the atmosphere was like something out a sports movie. I expect Saturday's crowd at TSS v Nudgee be of a similar number.
How long will it be until one school builds a 10,000 seat stadium and signs over the TV rights for the competition to Fox Sports, or channel 10, or any other network looking for a new market to broadcast?
It'd be interesting to find out how relative Rugby success is to enrolments each year.
Like the boosting analogy I made before, I can see the days when schoolboy rugby gets to the point where it's like the NCAA tournaments in the US, where schools compete in luring young players to play on their teams, forcing them to maintain a high Grade Point Average to play for the school, banning meetings with agents and professional coaches until they finish the school year, etc etc etc etc. Games like last years 'Grand Final' between Nudgee and BGS attracted a crowd of maybe 7000 people, and the atmosphere was like something out a sports movie. I expect Saturday's crowd at TSS v Nudgee be of a similar number.
How long will it be until one school builds a 10,000 seat stadium and signs over the TV rights for the competition to Fox Sports, or channel 10, or any other network looking for a new market to broadcast?