Hard Knocks Proposal
This is a business outline for my new wrestling group. I'm just posting it here to cover it in the Creative Commons Copyright.
GOAL
Provide Mississippi Public Schools a mean to raise monies for teacher / classroom needs through reviving the territorial wrestling days by going school-to-school instead of town-to-town.
HISTORY
Before the 'modern-era' of professional wrestling, the 'sport' existed as a collection of territories that had their own champions, personalities, and styles. Many of the men and women that worked these territories would drive from one town to the next as soon as they finished a show. Promoters would go from town to town to town to book a gymnasium, community center or whatever was available to do a show.
Mississippi has had its share of wrestling legends, too. The most familiar to many is Ted DiBiase - The Million Dollar Man - from Clinton, MS. His son, Teddy, now works in the World Wrestling Entertainment. Other legends are The Junkyard Dog, Kamala the Ugandan Warrior, Pork Chop Cash and Jack Curtis, Jr., to name a bare few. There are no less than four independent promotions running in the state even now.
BUDGET
From http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/extrel/news/2009/09EdBudgetCut.html:
“NEWS RELEASE
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Contact: Pete Smith Director of Communications, 601-359-1336
State Superintendent of Education Releases Education Budget Cut Spreadsheet
Jackson, MS - A detailed district-by-district spreadsheet of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) was released today to superintendents to review the impact of the recent budget cuts made by Governor Haley Barbour.
‘Superintendents will notice that 14 districts will be operating in the red and an additional 10 districts could possibly be operating in the red by June 30," State Superintendent of Education Dr. Hank M. Bounds said. "It's imperative that all districts know exactly how these cuts will impact the operation of their schools as we work through these difficult times.’
…
‘Districts will look at every avenue to soften the blow of these budget cuts however, programs such as athletics, band, drama and other extra curricular activities may have to be cut to save money,’ Dr. Bounds added.”
But you knew this.
LET US HELP
The School Of Hard Knocks is a wrestling promotion being formed as a company with one main goal: help schools raise money for teacher’s needs, club/organization needs, other school necessities that their budget cannot.
Hard Knocks (as we’ll refer to it from hereon) is comprised of some of Mississippi’s top independent wrestlers that want to help. Really. By working with schools that provide the location to put on a show, we help bring in additional monies that may not have been accessible before.
WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE
Hard Knocks brings more than a wrestling show if you’ll let us. We want to work with schools that have in-school television studios to produce our shows to put on television and create DVD’s for sale. Graphic design classes or clubs can gain real world experience creating fliers, programs and more. Have a screen printing class? Make and sell t-shirts for Hard Knocks.
Real world experience to take to college and the working world. Can you help a child’s self-confidence more than that? Of course you can, you’re teachers.
Hard Knocks will work with the middle and high schools that want to work with us. My name is Darrell Troth and I have done television commercials and print ads, t-shirt and brochure design for the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi. You can even call 601-957-7878 and ask them. Seen their license plate? Yep. Me. I’m also the promoter and producer for Hard Knocks.
Oh. Any school will be able to sell tickets to our shows even if they don’t want us to perform there. Yeah, we really do want to help.
HOW IT WORKS
Just as in the old days of wrestling territories, we will work one school each week. Shows will be scheduled with the schools as we know you have other things going on, and we don’t want to take anything away from you. If we have ten schools that want to work with us, we’ll do a show at each of them and start again. The shows will be family friendly fare with no cussing, no blood (outside of an accident), and television friendly as well.
Tickets will run $10 for adults, $7 for students and children 9 and up. Student ID will be required. The percentage split will be 80-20 Hard Knocks. Wait, please. Let me explain:
I have to pay the guys that will be doing all the work. That includes wrestlers, referees, security, and stage hands. I have to pay the Mississippi State Athletic Commission, the insurance company (yes, we’ll have liability for our shows) and the taxes. There is also ring maintenance and transportation. Whew. That IS a lot.
That breaks down to $2 a ticket for the school to keep. I don’t plan to do math, so instead of doing 20% of $7, you will get two dollars each ticket. To do some math, on 300 tickets the school would earn $600 to split among the schools/groups that sold tickets. As an added bonus, though, the school that hosts the show can sell concessions and make even more money. That concession money is yours alone, we don’t even think about it.
Now, as the shows grow there will be DVD’s created by students that can be sold online, at the school and at consecutive shows. What cut do the schools get from this? This time the schools get the 80% (or $8 dollars).
So … repeat shows, DVD sales, program sales. Oh yeah. There’s also
THE BIG SHOW
At the end of the school year, we hold a “Pay Per View” style big show where we bring in a wrestling celebrity, crown the Hard Knocks champions and go all out. This will be held at a facility where we can do the rougher stuff, seat more people and still make money for the schools.
THERE’S THE BELL
The time is now to get started. There are plans to be made, schedules to create, and teachers to coordinate with for those that have students that can help put our shows over the top. We will be glad to come in and talk with your school representatives. We will be sending this same information to all Mississippi Public Schools, since everyone needs some help.
Tag.
Darrell O. Troth
President
The School of Hard Knocks
(601) 939-2833
(601) 939-2837 Fax
Darrell.troth@gmail.com
Hard Knocks Proposal by Darrell Troth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
GOAL
Provide Mississippi Public Schools a mean to raise monies for teacher / classroom needs through reviving the territorial wrestling days by going school-to-school instead of town-to-town.
HISTORY
Before the 'modern-era' of professional wrestling, the 'sport' existed as a collection of territories that had their own champions, personalities, and styles. Many of the men and women that worked these territories would drive from one town to the next as soon as they finished a show. Promoters would go from town to town to town to book a gymnasium, community center or whatever was available to do a show.
Mississippi has had its share of wrestling legends, too. The most familiar to many is Ted DiBiase - The Million Dollar Man - from Clinton, MS. His son, Teddy, now works in the World Wrestling Entertainment. Other legends are The Junkyard Dog, Kamala the Ugandan Warrior, Pork Chop Cash and Jack Curtis, Jr., to name a bare few. There are no less than four independent promotions running in the state even now.
BUDGET
From http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/extrel/news/2009/09EdBudgetCut.html:
“NEWS RELEASE
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Contact: Pete Smith Director of Communications, 601-359-1336
State Superintendent of Education Releases Education Budget Cut Spreadsheet
Jackson, MS - A detailed district-by-district spreadsheet of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) was released today to superintendents to review the impact of the recent budget cuts made by Governor Haley Barbour.
‘Superintendents will notice that 14 districts will be operating in the red and an additional 10 districts could possibly be operating in the red by June 30," State Superintendent of Education Dr. Hank M. Bounds said. "It's imperative that all districts know exactly how these cuts will impact the operation of their schools as we work through these difficult times.’
…
‘Districts will look at every avenue to soften the blow of these budget cuts however, programs such as athletics, band, drama and other extra curricular activities may have to be cut to save money,’ Dr. Bounds added.”
But you knew this.
LET US HELP
The School Of Hard Knocks is a wrestling promotion being formed as a company with one main goal: help schools raise money for teacher’s needs, club/organization needs, other school necessities that their budget cannot.
Hard Knocks (as we’ll refer to it from hereon) is comprised of some of Mississippi’s top independent wrestlers that want to help. Really. By working with schools that provide the location to put on a show, we help bring in additional monies that may not have been accessible before.
WHAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE
Hard Knocks brings more than a wrestling show if you’ll let us. We want to work with schools that have in-school television studios to produce our shows to put on television and create DVD’s for sale. Graphic design classes or clubs can gain real world experience creating fliers, programs and more. Have a screen printing class? Make and sell t-shirts for Hard Knocks.
Real world experience to take to college and the working world. Can you help a child’s self-confidence more than that? Of course you can, you’re teachers.
Hard Knocks will work with the middle and high schools that want to work with us. My name is Darrell Troth and I have done television commercials and print ads, t-shirt and brochure design for the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi. You can even call 601-957-7878 and ask them. Seen their license plate? Yep. Me. I’m also the promoter and producer for Hard Knocks.
Oh. Any school will be able to sell tickets to our shows even if they don’t want us to perform there. Yeah, we really do want to help.
HOW IT WORKS
Just as in the old days of wrestling territories, we will work one school each week. Shows will be scheduled with the schools as we know you have other things going on, and we don’t want to take anything away from you. If we have ten schools that want to work with us, we’ll do a show at each of them and start again. The shows will be family friendly fare with no cussing, no blood (outside of an accident), and television friendly as well.
Tickets will run $10 for adults, $7 for students and children 9 and up. Student ID will be required. The percentage split will be 80-20 Hard Knocks. Wait, please. Let me explain:
I have to pay the guys that will be doing all the work. That includes wrestlers, referees, security, and stage hands. I have to pay the Mississippi State Athletic Commission, the insurance company (yes, we’ll have liability for our shows) and the taxes. There is also ring maintenance and transportation. Whew. That IS a lot.
That breaks down to $2 a ticket for the school to keep. I don’t plan to do math, so instead of doing 20% of $7, you will get two dollars each ticket. To do some math, on 300 tickets the school would earn $600 to split among the schools/groups that sold tickets. As an added bonus, though, the school that hosts the show can sell concessions and make even more money. That concession money is yours alone, we don’t even think about it.
Now, as the shows grow there will be DVD’s created by students that can be sold online, at the school and at consecutive shows. What cut do the schools get from this? This time the schools get the 80% (or $8 dollars).
So … repeat shows, DVD sales, program sales. Oh yeah. There’s also
THE BIG SHOW
At the end of the school year, we hold a “Pay Per View” style big show where we bring in a wrestling celebrity, crown the Hard Knocks champions and go all out. This will be held at a facility where we can do the rougher stuff, seat more people and still make money for the schools.
THERE’S THE BELL
The time is now to get started. There are plans to be made, schedules to create, and teachers to coordinate with for those that have students that can help put our shows over the top. We will be glad to come in and talk with your school representatives. We will be sending this same information to all Mississippi Public Schools, since everyone needs some help.
Tag.
Darrell O. Troth
President
The School of Hard Knocks
(601) 939-2833
(601) 939-2837 Fax
Darrell.troth@gmail.com
Hard Knocks Proposal by Darrell Troth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.