[*BCM*] FW: 2010 Bicycle Relay-Race at Harvard?

[Anne Buckingham]

Given that they're talking about doing this next July, they're offering cash
prizes and a car to the winners (which would give issues if any of the
athletes were NCAA), and there's no website or confirmed place to do hold
the event, plus the fact that the numbers submitted seem entirely made up
(24K people per day? On what basis?  How many riders?  Will they self select
or do the colleges have to submit a team) and the claim it will be televised
(over six days? In Boston on Fourth of July weekend? Are you kidding?) I
really wouldn't worry about it. The other pitch (that it gets lots of
prospective students to the campus) isn't something that Harvard has a
problem doing.  And given that the theory is that the participants are
already in college, it is a bit of a moot issue anyway.

They're pitching it as an opportunity for Harvard to make money for itself.
But the Harvard guys are smarter than this e-mail.  And if for some reason
Harvard did decide to do it, there is zero preventing them from taking this
idea and making it their own.  So odds of this coming off?  Zip.

2009/11/22 Louise Johnson <lsj2020 at gmail.com>

> Harvard is about the last organization I would consider doing a fund
> raising event for.  What planet are you on?  Louise Johnson
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jess Phillips Jr <jessphillipsjr at msn.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: jessphillipsjr at msn.com
>> To: info at northeastbicycleclub.org
>> Subject: FW: 2010 Bicycle Relay-Race at Harvard?
>> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:51:26 -0600
>>
>>
>>   Re – Bicycle Relay-Race 2010 in Cambridge, MA
>>
>> Dear NEBC, as you can see below, we're planning a unique cycling event for
>> the Boston, MA, area next year. We sure would appreciate the help of your
>> Boston/Cambridge area members with planning this race.
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> Jess Phillips, Jr. <http://phillips88.com/Jess_Phillips_Jr.htm>
>>
>> jessphillipsjr at msn.com
>> 409-454-7365 <http://www.%20409-454-7365/>
>> http://phillips88.com
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: jessphillipsjr at msn.com
>> To: president at harvard.edu; council at cambridgema.gov
>> CC: brad_quigley at harvard.edu; jen_flynn at harvard.edu;
>> sara_aske at harvard.edu; info at quadbikes.org; awashbur at fas.harvard.edu
>> Subject: 2010 Bicycle Relay-Race at Harvard?
>> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:19:08 -0600
>>
>>
>>   To: Drew G. Faust – President, Harvard University
>>
>> Re *– 2010 Bicycle Relay-Race at Harvard?*
>>
>>
>> Dr. Faust:
>>
>> The purpose of this email is to seek your office’s help with bringing a
>> large college bicycle relay-race to the *Harvard *campus next year. My
>> name is Jess Phillips, Jr <http://phillips88.com/Jess_Phillips_Jr.htm>.
>>  I am a retired NFL football player and head of the Relay-Race 100
>> organizing committee. We are an eclectic assortment of bicyclist from around
>> the country. As you can see below, we had originally planned to have this
>> event in Bermuda. However, after conferring with prospective sponsors and
>> the fact that each of these college students would have to get visas and
>> passports to travel to Bermuda, we have decided to have this collegiate
>> relay-race in a more easily accessible U.S. city.
>>
>> The plan is to have each major U.S. and Canadian college/university
>> submit a coed, four person bicycle relay team. Each of the four team members
>> – two males & two females -- will race 25 miles. The top three fastest teams
>> will receive trophies and prizes. The ideal dates being *Tuesday, June 29
>> th to Sunday, July 4th, 2010*.
>>
>> This would be a great fund raising opportunity for the university. And it
>> will attract hundreds of prospective future students to your campus. We
>> expect this relay-race will attract 24,000 plus people per day. That
>> includes race participants, their families, friends, spectators and press
>> from all over the country. Each of these 24,000 daily visitors will spend,
>> on average, $17.00 per day while at this event. *Keep in mind this will
>> be a six day event*. $17.00 x 24,000 = $408,000,000 in gross daily sales.
>>
>> Over the course of six days, we’re talking about gross sales just from
>> parking, food, and memorabilia of over *$2.4 million* and that doesn’t
>> include the hundreds of thousands of dollars that will be spent on area
>> hotel/motel rooms, renal cars and restaurants. *We would like for the net
>> proceeds from the concession and parking fees to go to **Harvard in
>> exchange for hosting and helping us organize this event.
>>
>> *Dr. Faust, would *Harvard *be interested in helping us bring this unique
>> sporting event to *Massachusetts* this coming July? We plan to consider
>> other locations, but I think the *Harvard *campus would be an ideal place
>> to host this first-ever event.
>>
>> If interested, I would appreciate an opportunity to discuss with you in
>> more detail our plans for this relay-race and to find out what if any
>> local/state licenses and/or permits that we would need. We think this will
>> be a great spectator sporting event that will be televised nationally, and
>> we hope to make this an annual event. Thank you for your time. Your
>> questions, comments, suggestions are encouraged.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Jess Phillips, Jr.
>>  <http://phillips88.com/>
>>
>> jessphillipsjr at msn.cm  409 454-7365  www.phillips88.com
>>
>> *
>>
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>> *
>>
>> To - *Andre Curtis,
>>  *Chairman, Bermuda Tourism Board*
>> *Hamilton, Bermuda
>>
>> From *-* *Jess Phillips, Jr. *<http://www.google.com/search?q=Jess+Phillips+Jr&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1>
>>
>> Re *-* *2010 Bicycle Relay-Race?*
>>
>>
>> Mr. Curtis, my name is Jess Phillips, Jr.<http://phillips88.com/Jess_Phillips_Jr.htm>I am the chairman of the Relay-Race 100 organizing committee. The purpose of
>> this email is to seek your *help with hosting a 100 mile, coed bicycle
>> relay-race* in Hamilton Bermuda during Spring Break in March 2010. This
>> will be a six day event: Monday to Saturday.
>>
>> Regarding the 100 mile bicycle relay-race: Each team will consist of two
>> males and two females from colleges and universities all over the U.S. and
>> Canada.* *Race team members will travel 25 miles before passing the baton
>> to their teammate. Because this race will be televised, we would like to
>> have a race route along the beach front.
>>
>> The big attraction for the collegiate race teams will be the cash prizes
>> and the new car that each of the four winning team members will receive.
>> We are extremely confident that will be able to find several corporate
>> sponsors for this unique event that we would like to have every year.
>>
>> Mr. Curtis, this race, which will be televised, will bring thousands of
>> people to Bermuda this coming March and generate hundreds of thousands of
>> dollars in sales from hotel rooms to rental cars. Who would we need to
>> contact to discuss the possibly of having this Spring Break 2010 Relay-Race
>> in Bermuda? Your help in this matter is much appreciated.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> *Jess Phillips, Jr*
>>
>> jessphillipsjr at msn.cm <>  409 454-7365 <> www.phillips88.com
>>
>>
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