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Post by dpb13 on Sept 3, 2007 16:11:29 GMT -5
So this comes up fairly often-how much do visiting teams really get? According to a blurb in the RGJ yesterday, Nevada was paid $750,000 to get beat down by Nebraska. They expect to pocket about $600,000 after expenses.
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Post by Pirate Joe on Sept 3, 2007 16:12:42 GMT -5
Appalachian St got 400,00K from Michigan
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Post by bcsbbad on Sept 3, 2007 17:45:04 GMT -5
ASU should pay Michigan for all the publicity ther're getting. Wonder what their jersey sells will do tomorrow.
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Post by USCGamecocks on Sept 3, 2007 17:45:43 GMT -5
And how many of those jerseys will be purchased by Ohio State fans.
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Post by Pirate Joe on Sept 3, 2007 17:47:21 GMT -5
And how many of those jerseys will be purchased by Ohio State fans. I wonder how many OSU fans will wear ASU jerseys to the Ohio St Mich Game this year?
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Post by USCGamecocks on Sept 3, 2007 17:48:42 GMT -5
That would be hilarious
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Post by Pirate Joe on Sept 3, 2007 17:53:00 GMT -5
LOL We need to plant that seed on some OSU message boards....That would be a melee
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Post by gobigred203 on Sept 3, 2007 18:12:09 GMT -5
I'm definitely getting an Appalachian State jersey
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Post by dpb13 on Sept 4, 2007 8:19:45 GMT -5
And while we're on the subject, from the RGJ once again:
The football coaches at Hawaii and Fresno State choose to play the Oregons and Alabamas.
The San Jose State and Louisiana Tech coaches have those choices made for them.
Maybe it's not quite that rigid (every coach has some degree of input into his schedule), but it's close, and it is probably the clearest indication, year in and year out, of who the haves and the have-nots are in college football. It's a financial issue, and it often correlates directly into wins and losses.
And in the Western Athletic Conference -- possibly the poster child for "mid-majors" these days -- teams see both ends of how it affects scheduling.
"Payday games have been around a long time," WAC Commissioner Karl Benson said Monday during the WAC's weekly teleconference call. "Some programs depend on those games as revenue sources."
WAC teams must find four non-conference games to fill out their 12-game schedules each season. For some it is more difficult than others.
For example, Fresno State's Pat Hill has been saying for years that it is difficult to get a Top 25-caliber team to come to Fresno because teams know of the Bulldogs' knack for playing top teams tough (No. 1-ranked Southern Cal eked out a 50-42 win in Los Angeles in 2005).
Most coaches, and San Jose State's Dick Tomey is among them, say they just want some balance in their schedule, such as one team from a Bowl Championship Series conference, one opponent his team should beat and two opponents who are similar to themselves. But if the program isn't able to pay bills, the administration will look for a second payday game (top programs will pay more than $500,000 to a visiting team), sometimes a third or even fourth payday game.
Such has been the case at Louisiana Tech, where they averaged 14,500 fans in five home games last year. The Bulldogs annually play more road games and do so in some of the toughest venues in college football. Last year, Tech played at Nebraska, at Texas A&M and at Clemson in the first four weeks. In 2004 and 2005, Tech's road games included Miami, Tennessee, Auburn, Florida and Kansas.
The Bulldogs went 3-10 last season and head coach Jack Bicknell lost his job.
Times, though, might be changing in Ruston, La.
"Louisiana Tech's philosophy is in the process of changing," Benson said. "They've made an institutional decision that they can't continue to put their team in that situation, which means they will have to get their revenue from somewhere else.
"As you look at the importance of winning, winning generates revenue and resources. It can mean additional season-ticket holders and corporate sponsors. I hope that (administrators) will recognize what winning, whether it's a (Division) I-AA team or a win over a lesser conference, can result in."
San Jose State opened with a 45-3 loss at Arizona State in Tempe on Saturday and now travels to Manhattan, Kan., to take on Kansas State.
"We're playing what we've got, but it's not my favorite, I can promise you," Tomey said of his schedule, which also includes non-conference games against Stanford (away) and UC Davis (at home). "We have to financially. We have to bring in the dollars."
Benson said the temptation to take those big payday games could grow.
"Unfortunately, paydays are going up," he said. "We're getting calls from teams looking for a team for 2008 and 2009 in the $800,000, $900,000 amount.
"There needs to be a strategy in scheduling. Is one of those (payday) games a year worthwhile? I'd like programs to get to a point where they're scheduling from a competitive standpoint rather than a financial motive
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Post by ksuwolverine on Sept 4, 2007 9:58:25 GMT -5
LOL We need to plant that seed on some OSU message boards....That would be a melee I hate all of you. We'd deserve in though. I've seen a couple Michigan fans wear Charlie Bauman (The Clemson player Woody punched) jerseys at OSU games.
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Post by joshrk on Sept 4, 2007 14:51:18 GMT -5
LOL We need to plant that seed on some OSU message boards....That would be a melee I will definately give that thought. Although the "I gave Ann Arbor a Dirty Sanchez" shirt i saw at the game Saturday was pretty funny.
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