(11-25-2016 09:22 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  If a G5 team wants to be taken seriously for support, then you need at least 25k or 1/2 of stadium capacity per team for all bowls. Bringing less than 15k is why G5 bowls get the crappy payouts.
P5 teams sell out bowls, G5 should do the same but as it happens that isn't the case for all G5 conferences and why G5 conferences don't get better bowl payouts.

I mean not necessarily. Illinois didn't exactly sell out the HOD when we played them 2 years ago. Tech outnumbered them.

Granted, that's Illinois, not a good P5 team, but still.

(11-25-2016 09:40 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(11-25-2016 09:22 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  If a G5 team wants to be taken seriously for support, then you need at least 25k or 1/2 of stadium capacity per team for all bowls. Bringing less than 15k is why G5 bowls get the crappy payouts.
P5 teams sell out bowls, G5 should do the same but as it happens that isn't the case for all G5 conferences and why G5 conferences don't get better bowl payouts.

OK.....

Maybe the top schools do but I guess you haven't paid close attention to the lesser bowls.

Not many (less than 10%) G5 schools will bring 25k or 15k to a bowl game that is not in short driving range. MYTH...

North Texas will bring over 30K if we luck into the HOD, or the Armed Forces Bowl, now that the BIG12 only has 6 eligible teams.