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RE: Talk about NOT traveling to a bowl!
(06-22-2017 08:15 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: (06-22-2017 07:52 AM)tcufrog86 Wrote: (06-21-2017 10:25 PM)Win5002 Wrote: (06-15-2017 07:48 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: http://www.yardbarker.com/college_footba...6_24166468
Indiana spent $2.5 million to play in the Foster Farms Bowl last December, but only a handful of their fans made the trip to California for the game. According to a report by The Herald-Times’ Michael Reschke, Indiana sold only 672 tickets out of their allotment of 7,000. (That’s under 10 percent.)
The Hoosiers ate a little under $100,000 in unsold tickets and dumped the vast majority of the cost on the Big Ten, which picked up a $407,557 tab for about 5,300 tickets.
Thanks to the Big Ten’s contribution, the Hoosiers' bowl trip won’t be a financial negative. The school will net about $100,000.
From The Herald-Times:
...It cost IU more than $2.5 million to participate in the 2016 Foster Farms Bowl. That’s about $350,000 more than IU’s official payout. But when the Big Ten’s contribution for unsold tickets is factored in, IU actually received a payout of more than $2.6 million.
This is becoming a regular problem for Indiana. Last season, well over half of their ticket allotment for the Pinstripe Bowl went unsold. Via The Herald-Times:
This is the second year in a row the conference has helped IU cover the cost of unsold bowl game tickets. More than 4,000 of the 7,500 tickets allotted to IU for the 2015 New Era Pinstripe Bowl went unsold. IU only absorbed 950 of those unsold tickets, at a cost of about $84,000. The conference paid about $345,000 to cover the cost of 3,369 unsold tickets.
YOU THINK SOME ACC TEAMS DON'T TRAVEL WELL?
WOW!
This is a good example of why the bowl games need to be replaced by expanded conference playoffs.
I think we end up with expanded conference playoffs if we see conferences getting to 16, 18, or even 20 teams.
Even at 14 teams the schedules across the conferences members can be very unbalanced in toughness, will become even more so in larger leagues.
OR... if we go to a P4 with 16+ teams each, maybe we see conference semi-finals and a P4 champions-only playoff? Less travel. Keeps it in the conferences control. Lots of reasons this could happen.
My guess is if all they go to is conference semi-finals they might keep bowl games, since a lot larger % than 25% go to bowls. I like a % of conference playoff games participants similar to NFL playoff numbers which is 6 out of 16 teams make the playoffs or 37.5%. Two teams would get a first round bye. If we get 18 team leagues go ahead and go to 8 teams. Those conference playoff games would be so much more compelling than bowl games!
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