Hard Knocks.

"Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan." I am no marketonomist or "-ologist" for that matter, but is anyone really that surprised that the above concert lost Arizona University nearly 1 Million GD dollars? Here's what happened: The brainiacs at AU, with their fancy "degrees" and "book learnding" Googled "biggest music audiences" and then produced the following diagram:



Then they went about securing acts that fit each category, thinking (in theory) that by combining all three categories, they would easily cover Jigga's $750,000, Kelly Clarkson's $249,985, and the Greyhound ticket to Tucson that Third Eye Blind (!) asked for. Here's where their plan went off the rails: They didn't realize that the "Nincompoops" segment of their audience overlapped in to the other two groups, almost eclipsing them entirely. And as we all know, their disposable income is usually taken up by lotto tickets and extended warranties and cell phone ringtones and Nascar. And that's in the good times. Actually, I think it was the fact that there isn't a single person on earth who wants to see those three acts together. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the fans of each of those artists HATES the other artists. Much like my love of nipple piercing, evangelical church services, and frat parties, those are worlds that will sadly never live in harmony.

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