Northern Illinois is going to lose so much money on their BCS game

Don't they get a shite load of money to go play there?

idk, i could see a lot of NIU alums splurging for this game; it is in miami afterall.

They should have declined the bowl invite. I hear thats a thing now

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idk, i could see a lot of NIU alums splurging for this game; it is in miami afterall.

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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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Don't they get a shite load of money to go play there?

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their conference gets a good bit of money that gets split among the conference

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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Most teams lose a lot of cash on bowl games.

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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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UCONN lost $$$ playing in it recently

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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.

Good, frickem