re: Bowl Game Question

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Agree with this. Mizzou is once again an embarrassment to the SEC. Bowl proceeds are split among the SEC conference members yet Missouri declines their bowl? They should not get their cut as a result if you ask me.

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I understand what you are saying...but when you get down to the lowest tier bowls the colleges can actually lose money. There would have been nothing to put into the kitty had Missouri gone to a bowl game. The only advantage for them to have gone would have been the extra practice time, and to tell recruits they went to a bowl game.

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I find that hard to believe: LINK

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But the top Bowls pay out as much as 16 million for each team. The smaller ones do not pay out nearly as much. PLUS, Ohio State actually lost money when thye went to the Rose Bowl a couple of years ago.

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Keep in mind the way Conferences handle Bowl games.
Conferences give the schools a certain amount of money to pay for expenses. Typically the bigger the bowl the more money they get. The smaller schools find it difficult to pay for hotels, food, transportation, etc. and stay within the budget the conference gives them. Then, the smaller the bowl the less the payout. Once the school gets the payout, they turn it over to the conference and it si split among the conference members. (MOST conferences handle it this way. This is one reason Notre Dame didn't want to be a part of a conference. the felt they would go to a big bowl every year, and then their money would be diluted by sharing it with other teams)

Smaller schools at smaller conferences just do not fare well in this scenario. Central Michigan expects to lose money on their bowl game, for instance.

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And perhaps the best article from Bloomberg tells the story best.

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Rutgers University celebrated its 8-4 record last football season with a trip to the St. Petersburg Bowl in Florida. Big East Conference schools got stuck with a $740,000 bill.

The Scarlet Knights’ story isn’t unique in college football. Payouts for all but the biggest bowl games seldom match teams’ expenses, and the rest of the schools in the conference have to subsidize them, according to financial records obtained by Bloomberg News using open records laws.