[NU Sports] Temple - no Bowl bid

[Jonathan Hodges]

Reference this article for some of the numbers (including Ohio State eating
over $1M worth of tickets from the 2009 Fiesta Bowl):
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1177192/3/index.htm

The fact is that a good number of schools end up losing money by going to a
bowl, particularly schools in non-BCS conferences.  I doubt any Big Ten
schools lose money on bowls due to the revenue sharing agreement amongst
schools and also since the conference almost routinely gets 2 teams into the
BCS which means over $20M to distribute before even talking about some of
the higher profile non-BCS games that have good payouts (Capital One,
Outback).  Note that the TicketCity Bowl has a $1.2M payout.

Bowls are now required to pay out $1M per team on average over a rolling 3
year period (see:
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/champ_handbooks/football/2010/10_ps_football.pdf)
and must put up a $2M letter of credit.  Note that bowls are generally more
solvent these days mostly due to the requirement that they have set
conference affiliations (or with an independent: Army/Navy/ND) as well as
the fact that TV generally subsidizes the games moreso than it used to (and
by TV, I mean ESPN: 33 of 35 games are on an ESPN network this season).
Also, the high payouts for BCS games and conference revenue sharing
essentially allow the bigger bowl games to subsidize the smaller games since
the big money trickles down.  Oh, and don't forget all of those bowl title
sponsors who pony up for some big name placement (I count 32 of 35 games
with a title sponsor name in the title of the bowl:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/bowl-schedule/index.html
).

Finally, just know by generally being a fan of college football and watching
the games on TV and specifically supporting your school by going to their
game you are helping to perpetuate the system.  I know I enjoy watching and
going to the games so I'll try to put all of the politics out of my mind and
enjoy the product on the field when I have a chance.

Jonathan



On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Arthur Miller <artmiller_news at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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