Another inaugural bowl
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When one gets added, one dies. They reached a ceiling for bowls a few years back. Remember the Toronto Bowl (or whatever that bowl was called)? It is ridiculous, no bowl means anything unless the payout amounts to something.
Also keep in mind, all we get is 2 shares of the payout. All money goes to the conference and then it is distributed to EVERY team with the participating team getting 2 shares. Since we could have 10 teams in bowls this year, our bowl money will be more than ever before regardless the bowl we go to.
Yeah, I meant in general, if a bowl has a payout enough to add more to the coffers, an extra 50-100K per team pay out, its something at least. Most of our bowl tie ins barely cover any expenses however. Most "new" bowl added over the last decade to placate us G5 folk doesn't even cover that.....if we didn't do conference revenue sharing, a lot of teams would have to turn down half these bowls.
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There are not too many bowls. Do you not remember our era in the lowly MAC? The 1999 season? Marshall entered the MAC Championship at 11-0, having defeated, among others, Clemson. MU had beaten the west champions 6-5 Western Michigan built up a big lead and the Herd struggled to a big comeback. Otherwise, the Herd, at 11-1, would have stayed home. Same deal for 97 at 9-2, 98 at 11-1, and the later BP era bowls were insider deals with others with similar records left out. Really?
Bowls provide a nice trip, different from the in and out business trips of the regular season, for the players, along with (remember they don't get paid) an NCAA legal swag bag of stuff worth a couple of thou. For some fans it is a nice part of the Christmas-New Year's break, whether they go to it or have a viewing party at home, for the towns it is at least a few tourist $$, and for ESPN it is cheap programming at a time of the year when not much is going on (you really interested in seeing Kentucky or Duke or Michigan beat Northwest Stuptown State, or think that the 38th game of an NBA teams interminable regular season really matters at all? ).
Don't like, don't watch it.
www.remotes.com
There are not too many bowls. Do you not remember our era in the lowly MAC? The 1999 season? Marshall entered the MAC Championship at 11-0, having defeated, among others, Clemson. MU had beaten the west champions 6-5 Western Michigan built up a big lead and the Herd struggled to a big comeback. Otherwise, the Herd, at 11-1, would have stayed home. Same deal for 97 at 9-2, 98 at 11-1, and the later BP era bowls were insider deals with others with similar records left out. Really?
Bowls provide a nice trip, different from the in and out business trips of the regular season, for the players, along with (remember they don't get paid) an NCAA legal swag bag of stuff worth a couple of thou. For some fans it is a nice part of the Christmas-New Year's break, whether they go to it or have a viewing party at home, for the towns it is at least a few tourist $$, and for ESPN it is cheap programming at a time of the year when not much is going on (you really interested in seeing Kentucky or Duke or Michigan beat Northwest Stuptown State, or think that the 38th game of an NBA teams interminable regular season really matters at all? ).
Don't like, don't watch it.
No, not even close. Why must you always try to be the authority on every topic and end up providing false information?
A couple of hundred or a couple of thousand, can you really put a price tag on this kind of bowl sponsor talent for The Bad Boy Mower Bowl in St. Pete?
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