[NU Sports] Temple - no Bowl bid

[Arthur Miller]

Honest question: How many bowls are subsidized by the participating schools, who 
lay out more in expenses than they receive in appearance money from the bowl 
committees?

I'm no fan of a playoff system, but the one thing that concerns me about about 
our bowl system concerns me is the possibility that we have too many bowls only 
because we have too many teams who are willing to accept bids to play in 
them--regardless of how low their payouts are.

Why would they do this?  Well, the 3-4 weeks of extra practice time is a big 
advantage, as is the perception of prestige of participating in the college 
football postseason.  Also, I would imagine that for most conference-affiliated 
bowl invitations, declining an invite is not really an option.

The wikipedia entry lists 11 bowls whose most recent payout was less than $1M, 
including three who pay out < $400k.  Does anyone know what it costs a school to 
participate in a bowl game?




----- Original Message ----
From: "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com>
To: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
Cc: Northwestern Wildcats <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 2:59:52 PM
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Temple - no Bowl bid

You're right and I was being generous.

As long as there are enough 6-6 teams willing to commit to buy their
share of tickets, there will be bowls and bowls sponsors willing to
create games for them.

Jeff