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Quote:2011 BCS Payouts


-- Automatic qualifier conferences $145.2 million


-- Non-automatic qualifier conferences $24.72 million


AQ Conferences


-- Big Ten, Pac-10, SEC $27.2 million


-- ACC, Big 12, Big East $21.2 million


-- Total: $145.2 million


Non-AQ Conferences


-- Mountain West $12.75 million


-- WAC $4.05 million


-- Conference USA $3.34 million


-- Mid-American $2.64 million - increase from last year's $2.1 mil payout


-- Sun Belt $1.94 million


-- Total: $24.72 million

Equates to $203,077 per team. Worst among all the conferences yet we want to split it more ways by adding another football member.

Adding a 14th football member would decrease that amount to $188,571 per team.

Let's see.

The NFL, the for-profit entity that pays taxes, distributes its earnings equably to all of their franchises.

The BCS (and NCAA, for that matter), the non-profit entity that pays NO TAXES, distributes its earnings via a sharecropper system.

Kinda ironic, isn't it?

(01-25-2011 05:43 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote:  Let's see.

The NFL, the for-profit entity that pays taxes, distributes its earnings equably to all of their franchises.

The BCS (and NCAA, for that matter), the non-profit entity that pays NO TAXES, distributes its earnings via a sharecropper system.

Kinda ironic, isn't it?

If anyone wants to see American socialism, it is the NFL.

(01-25-2011 05:43 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote:  Let's see.

The NFL, the for-profit entity that pays taxes, distributes its earnings equably to all of their franchises.

The BCS (and NCAA, for that matter), the non-profit entity that pays NO TAXES, distributes its earnings via a sharecropper system.

Kinda ironic, isn't it?

=>In all fairness, the numbers above are the BCS Bowl game payouts. The MAC is receiving $200,000 per school despite the fact that the MAC has NEVER had a team in a BCS Bowl.

How much of the New Orleans Bowl, GoDaddy.com Bowl, Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl, and Humanitarian Bowl money are going to any BCS schools?

In basketball, the NCAA gets ripped every year for all the BCS teams getting at large bids. But, if the NCAA actually took the top 65 (now 68) teams, there would be 10-15 more BCS teams in the field. The current NCAA tournament automatic qualifier system seriously benefits the MAC and other non-BCS schools over the BCS by allowing poorer quality "conference champion" automatic qualifiers ranked 100 or worse from midmajor leagues over vastly superior BCS teams that would be ranked in the 45-68 range overall.

(01-26-2011 02:30 PM)mollautt Wrote:  =>In all fairness, the numbers above are the BCS Bowl game payouts. The MAC is receiving $200,000 per school despite the fact that the MAC has NEVER had a team in a BCS Bowl.

How much of the New Orleans Bowl, GoDaddy.com Bowl, Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl, and Humanitarian Bowl money are going to any BCS schools?

In basketball, the NCAA gets ripped every year for all the BCS teams getting at large bids. But, if the NCAA actually took the top 65 (now 68) teams, there would be 10-15 more BCS teams in the field. The current NCAA tournament automatic qualifier system seriously benefits the MAC and other non-BCS schools over the BCS by allowing poorer quality "conference champion" automatic qualifiers ranked 100 or worse from midmajor leagues over vastly superior BCS teams that would be ranked in the 45-68 range overall.

You REALLY want to be fair about this? How many of those BCS (more accurately, power six conference teams) that get an invite to the tourney with a .500 conference record actually played more than one or two OOC games AWAY FROM HOME? We know the game they play and how they game the system. Play a bunch of home OOC games against winnable foes to pad the record. Then, you only need to go .500 in your league to magically appear in the rankings high enough to get an invite.

Some of those teams are pretty good. Some are not so good.

I'm certainly not arguing that any MAC basketball teams deserve an at large bid because this conference just keeps getting worse, especially over the past decade. But please spare us the BCS-type logic. If all our teams could stay at home almost exclusively during non-conference play, I'm betting that the records would be much better. The TEAMS might not be better but the PERCEPTION probably would be better, because the records would look better. The NCAA tournament invite game is rigged towards "name recognition" and the power six conferences have that built-in advantage and they actively work via their scheduling to game the system to their benefit.

Re: In all fairness, the numbers above are the BCS Bowl game payouts. The MAC is receiving $200,000 per school despite the fact that the MAC has NEVER had a team in a BCS Bowl.

Extending your line of reasoning, what exactly have Indiana, Duke, Vanderbilt, et al, ever done to earn their annual multi-million calorie slice of the pie?

(01-26-2011 02:30 PM)mollautt Wrote:  =>In all fairness, the numbers above are the BCS Bowl game payouts. The MAC is receiving $200,000 per school despite the fact that the MAC has NEVER had a team in a BCS Bowl.

How much of the New Orleans Bowl, GoDaddy.com Bowl, Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl, and Humanitarian Bowl money are going to any BCS schools?

Congratulations! You're the first person I've ever seen use the word "fairness" and "BCS" in the same sentence without dying from laughter.

We're on the ass-end of system that consigns ALL of our teams to money-losing games, allocates over 85% of the money from the profitable ones to the big boys, and pays us some hush money. And now I'm supposed to be grateful about the "fairness" of them tossing us a bribe so we don't go to Congress or the gutless NCAA presidents to point out that the system is totally rigged? **** that.

Anyone know how much money the missed Boise FG cost us? We would have had a second non-AQ team in a BCS bowl had they beaten Nevada.