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| Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:55 pm)
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CRAZY: Northern Illinois will have to buy more Orange Bowl tickets (17,500) than what they avg'd per game this season (15,670)
their losses will likely be in the 7-figures  
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:56 pm to SlowFlowPro)
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:56 pm to SlowFlowPro)
It's the old "be careful what you wish for"...
You want to play big-time football?
Well...here you go!
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:56 pm to SlowFlowPro)
Don't they get a shite load of money to go play there?
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:57 pm to SlowFlowPro)
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:57 pm to SlowFlowPro)
idk, i could see a lot of NIU alums splurging for this game; it is in miami afterall.
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:57 pm to SlowFlowPro)
Is Jimbo going to UT?
If so NIU might beat FSU
Games a joke tho
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:58 pm to SlowFlowPro)
They should have declined the bowl invite. I hear thats a thing now
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:58 pm to SDVTiger)
UCONN lost $$$ playing in it recently
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:58 pm to rocket31)
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idk, i could see a lot of NIU alums splurging for this game; it is in miami afterall.
I agree. Can see a lot of people from Chicago heading down. And I'm sure flights from Chicago to Miami are cheap.
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:59 pm to 1fairbank)
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Don't they get a shite load of money to go play there?
their conference gets a good bit of money that gets split among the conference
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 8:59 pm to Captain Want)
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UCONN lost $$$ playing in it recently
most non-major programs lose a ton of money on BCS bowl games. i'll give Boise credit in that they show up for their BCS bowls
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Bunk Moreland 
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:00 pm to 1fairbank)
You have to read Death to the BCS. Most teams lose a lot of cash on bowl games. After schools send the team and band and are forced to buy the ticket allotment, they end up in the red. Plus, those payout numbers for some bowls are a starter that gets negotiated down. The Motor City Bowl a few years ago had a handful of schools bidding to play, and I think the Bowl game got Florida Atlantic to accept no payment.
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:01 pm to wildtigercat93)
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They should have declined the bowl invite. I hear thats a thing now
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SlowFlowPro
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:02 pm to Bunk Moreland)
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Most teams lose a lot of cash on bowl games.
that book, if memory serves, leaves out some important points
teams lose money on their individual bowls, but they make money with the conference splits...at least in major conferences
so LSU will lose money on its trip to atlanta, but with all the other bowl money shares, it comes out ahead
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:04 pm to SlowFlowPro)
Virginia Tech lost $400-500k when they played Stanford 2 years ago. Clemson lost $100-200k last year. At least that is what they reported.
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:06 pm to Captain Want)
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UCONN lost $$$ playing in it recently
using a kind of dishonest accounting people made it look like UConn lost money. The bowl payouts are shared with the conference, so if you take their share minus their expenses for the game, then they lost money. That doesn't count their of other Big East Bowls or account for the fact that UConn gets the same share in years they didn't go to BCS Bowls.
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:07 pm to H-Town Tiger)
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using a kind of dishonest accounting people made it look like UConn lost money.
i don't think the MAC has nearly enough to make up for the losses NIU will sustain, though
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:12 pm to SlowFlowPro)
Good, frickem
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| re: Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game (Posted on 12/2/12 at 9:12 pm to SlowFlowPro)
For that MAC it's a different story, of course. but the Big East is in every year, So this year UConn gets what ever their share is this year and have $0 cost
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