Bowl finances

[BusterMartin]

Maybe the $500 for players' gift packages could be spent more wisely? They all probably have xbox 360s anyway.

 

[GrizLA]

This is why a Playoff is on the horizon...

BTW Can anyone here tell me who won the three bowl games last Saturday without looking it up?

nope...didn't know there were any....

 

[GrizLA]

Troy, BYU & Northern Illinois

I bet more people can answer that than can tell you who plays in the FCS title game.

Shhhhh.. dont tell anyone.

Nationwide you are correct, NO ONE KNOWS who is in the FCS game. It would be interesting to ask people in Frisco Texas, that question.

Live near there and "nobody" has a clue who is playing or that there is a game? Doesn't seen like much local publicity is going on especially in the surrounding bedroom communities where you would think they could draw some support. Maybe the "big" PR and Marketing push will happen next week?

Hate to break it to you, but there is no PR effort to publicize this game. Frankly, ESPN has a deep pocket relationship with the BCS and two conferences, in particular. The NCAA is interested only in money. This venue and date could not be more wrong for this game...few of the fcs schools have the passion and pride that UM or ASU have....this game exists for the fans of FCS (few and far between) and the schools involved....It exists in opposition to the big money outfits who want all the attention...

 

[GrizLA]

Interesting excerpt from the SI article:
Does It Matter? What a concept. Playoff. How (and why) the BCS is blocking what college football needs.

...you may be saying to yourself, but what about the big bowls, the major BCS games like the Fiesta, Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls? Surely the teams who play in those get lucrative bowl payouts? And, in fact, Ohio State earned $18.5 million for making it to the Rose Bowl in January 2010. That's a serious boost to any team's bottom line.

So it would have been, if the Buckeyes actually got to keep the money, which they did not. The $18.5 million went to the Big Ten, where it was added to a pool of bowl revenue that was then sliced into 12 shares—one for each team, one for the league office. That still left Ohio State with a tidy $2.2 million to spend, which the Buckeyes did. Ohio State's team travel costs were $352,727. Unsold tickets ran the school a cool $144,710. The bill to transport, feed and lodge the band and cheerleaders came to $366,814. Throw in entertainment, gifts and sundry other expenses, and the Buckeyes lost $79,597.

Even Ohio State cannot make money at the bowls. WTF?

True, enough, but when the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl and other Bowls that the Big 10 are in finally disperse funds, there is a substantial profit when taken as a whole...