emu steve
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RE: MAC Out of Conference Payouts
(06-05-2014 09:52 AM)DrTorch Wrote: (06-05-2014 07:17 AM)Slinkin Street Flash Wrote: (06-04-2014 09:10 PM)chipfan Wrote: I really feel pain about this situation. How will the P5 Conferences ever survive handing out that kind of cash? It will be even nicer when they fork over $1.5 Million and take a loss with it!
70,000 seats x $100 per ticket = $7,000,000 just in ticket revenue for 1 game. Schools like Alabama have more seats and more expensive tickets, so go from there. Penn State has more than 100,000 seats.
I wonder if there's extra money offered if you can help with strength-of-schedule? Maybe more money if you're a near-guaranteed win
BTN is helping that conference dramatically.
Still, it's not like even w/ $1.5M payouts, that the gap is narrowing. It's still an ever increasing inequality.
I'm not worried about the 'inequality' - college sports isn't like MLB where teams can try to out spend each other for talent.
The big thing for the MAC and other G5 schools is to raise as much revenues to at least pay for the cost of the football program.
The 'ultimate goal' of any MAC program, as Marshall fans asserted they were able to do is balance the costs of their athletic programs (I assume it was FB and they tried to 'charge back' the cost of scholarships, R&B, etc. for the football players).
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SVHerd
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RE: MAC Out of Conference Payouts
Frankly, I wish the G5 schools would refuse to play the P5 schools. Make them suffer and eat their own. They want total separation from the rest of us, have at it. Don't whore yourselves out. jmo.
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RE: MAC Out of Conference Payouts
(06-09-2014 06:15 AM)emu steve Wrote: (06-05-2014 09:52 AM)DrTorch Wrote: (06-05-2014 07:17 AM)Slinkin Street Flash Wrote: (06-04-2014 09:10 PM)chipfan Wrote: I really feel pain about this situation. How will the P5 Conferences ever survive handing out that kind of cash? It will be even nicer when they fork over $1.5 Million and take a loss with it!
70,000 seats x $100 per ticket = $7,000,000 just in ticket revenue for 1 game. Schools like Alabama have more seats and more expensive tickets, so go from there. Penn State has more than 100,000 seats.
I wonder if there's extra money offered if you can help with strength-of-schedule? Maybe more money if you're a near-guaranteed win
BTN is helping that conference dramatically.
Still, it's not like even w/ $1.5M payouts, that the gap is narrowing. It's still an ever increasing inequality.
I'm not worried about the 'inequality' - college sports isn't like MLB where teams can try to out spend each other for talent.
The big thing for the MAC and other G5 schools is to raise as much revenues to at least pay for the cost of the football program.
The 'ultimate goal' of any MAC program, as Marshall fans asserted they were able to do is balance the costs of their athletic programs (I assume it was FB and they tried to 'charge back' the cost of scholarships, R&B, etc. for the football players).
I disagree, inequality is the #1 problem with college football. The unfair revenue distribution allows institutions to buy home games, steal coaches, and out recruit the Have Nots. The ultimate goal of the MAC should not be to just get by, but to compete and succeed.
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06-09-2014 11:53 AM |
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