Bowl Game Payouts

[UNA Lion]

This is dated, but wonder if its still the case?

The real costs often come in the form of ticket guarantees; schools are allotted thousands of game tickets that are theirs to sell. When the team is playing in a prestigious bowl like the Rose Bowl or National Championship, or in a highly-anticipated matchup close to home, the allotments are a blessing. Schools playing in these types of games can sell out of tickets.

Then there’s the curse. If a school accepts an invitation to play in a bowl far away, a low-profile game or a bowl in which they had recently participated, fewer fans shell out the money to travel and attend the game.

So it seems that the bigger-name schools can make money off of bowl games, while lesser-known teams in toilet bowls lose money.

 

[john01992]

No the big name schools ARE NOT making money off the bowl games. even Ohio State lost money on a BCS game

The Republic separately obtained records from individual public universities that played in BCS bowls for the past six years to determine, on an individual basis, how many schools lost money. Records dating beyond six years were incomplete. The Republic's analysis showed that 41 percent of public universities playing in BCS games reported losses. The figure would have jumped to 50 percent had conferences not absorbed some of their universities' bowl expenses.

Along with a 40-12 drubbing from Stanford, Virginia Tech's athletic department reported a $421,046 loss. The cost to play in the Orange Bowl, largely based on terms set by the Bowl Championship Series, outstripped the amount of bowl money the team received.

Virginia Tech, which receives millions of dollars in public funding like many other college sports programs, would have lost even more money had the Atlantic Coast Conference not spent nearly $1.2 million to help. The team, required to buy a block of tickets as a condition of being in the bowl, was unable to resell all of them before game time; the school's conference bought out 9,500 remaining seats.

Virginia Tech would have lost $1.3 million in 2008, $2.2 million in 2009 and $1.6 million in 2011 had the ACC not stepped in and subsidized a portion of those losses. Even with the ACC subsidies, Virginia Tech lost money all three years

During those three years, universities - public and private - on average lost $331,137 playing in BCS bowl games. For non-BCS bowls during those same three years, the average loss was $119,631.

For the 2010-11 postseason, the average team loss in a BCS bowl was $346,959, reflecting an average expense allowance of about $2.38 million and an average expense of $2.73 million. The average loss in a non-BCS bowl that postseason was $139,604.

 

[potzer25]

The bowl system has become a huge mess and needs to go away.

The playoffs with semifinal games at neutral sites will be a mess.

 

[podsox]

if the schools were really losing money then why would they continue with the system. it really doesn't make any sense to me

 

[Camfantasy]

if the schools were really losing money then why would they continue with the system. it really doesn't make any sense to me

exposure, extra practice time, reward for their players, etc.

I think it's stupid to make a school buy an allotment of tickets for the games. If the bowl game can't market and sell their own tickets to their own game, then tough shit. The 2 schools are already making them a shit load of TV money for participating...... why fuck them with a shit load of tickets to a game that may be 2000 miles away from their local fanbase?

 

[podsox]

exposure, extra practice time, reward for their players, etc.

I think it's stupid to make a school buy an allotment of tickets for the games. If the bowl game can't market and sell their own tickets to their own game, then tough shit. The 2 schools are already making them a shit load of TV money for participating...... why fuck them with a shit load of tickets to a game that may be 2000 miles away from their local fanbase?

I still don't buy that. the conferences/schools can come in with their own system and make money.

 

[cane_man]

if the schools were really losing money then why would they continue with the system. it really doesn't make any sense to me

These schools dont use h&r block as their accountants

 

[HuskerinBig10]

In 2010, Ohio State LOST $80,000 on their trip to the ROSE BOWL.

Just about all schools lose money on the Bowl Game. It is advertising that might help, or so say the TV marketing hawkers.

 

[podsox]

In 2010, Ohio State LOST $80,000 on their trip to the ROSE BOWL.

Just about all schools lose money on the Bowl Game. It is advertising that might help, or so say the TV marketing hawkers.

why don't the conferences step in and say we are not paying for tickets that went unsold? unless the bowl ceo's are the conference commissioners it makes zero sense.

 

[geneh_33]

This is dated, but wonder if its still the case?



So it seems that the bigger-name schools can make money off of bowl games, while lesser-known teams in toilet bowls lose money.

It's better than it used to be. Long ago the bowl payouts were so low that all bowl teams lost money going to the games. At least now the bowls are paying out more.

It's good motivation for mid-major conferences to start up bowl games in the middle of their geographic area. If they do that, they'll control the flow of money and at least be able to break even.

The SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Pac 12 figured out that strategy years ago. The Big 10 doesn't worry about it because they don't mind losing money on bowl payouts. Because they're so rich that it doesn't matter.

 

[geneh_33]

These new bowl games they are talking about in Miami and the Bahamas and other places that are well outside the MAC footprint are going to just end up dying out. Because the middies will lose tons of money playing in them.

The middie conferences need to crank up bowl games in their own backyards. And that's the only way it will work out for them financially.

The New Orleans Bowl is a good example. The Sun Belt teams make money from that game. The advertisers love it because it is in their interests to support the games and the "local" teams.

 

[TexasExes98]

I think it's stupid that schools who make it to bowl games have to split that revenue with all conference members. Why should OU or Baylor split that BCS bowl money with a pathetic KU program who didn't even make a bowl?