Bowl Game in The Bahamas

[castsdan]

That is correct, however the the initial statement was that bowls don't have payouts. The unsold tickets did not affect how much the bowl paid out, as they still paid the $17 million. It's the fans fault the university did not take home more money, due to the unsold tickets.

In my initial post I made it pretty clear that revenue sharing and unsold tickets will result in the university incurring the cost, thus leading to a lower net gain from playing in a bowl.

[CrazyCajun]

That is correct, however the the initial statement was that bowls don't have payouts. The unsold tickets did not affect how much the bowl paid out, as they still paid the $17 million. It's the fans fault the university did not take home more money, due to the unsold tickets.

In my initial post I made it pretty clear that revenue sharing and unsold tickets will result in the university incurring the cost, thus leading to a lower net gain from playing in a bowl.

that's only bcs games... and possible a few of the larger bowls. the majority of bowls..the pay out is directly correlated to ticket sales. you dont sell squat...you dont get squat

[CajunDreDog]

My understanding is that UL was given an amount of money$50-$100K for expenses--then they were given a ticket allotment to sell and they could keep all or some of that---meanwhile tickets were also sold through other outlets---So the buying of tickets from UL was very important and I think that after the initial allotment we were actually given more but with less of a take home amount----I like how the SID comes on here maybe we can get Matt Casbon to explain it!!!

This is how I understood it as well. Now, this is for small bowl games, BCS game games are totally different!!!

Did I just understand Boomer?

[Turbine]

That is correct, however the the initial statement was that bowls don't have payouts. The unsold tickets did not affect how much the bowl paid out, as they still paid the $17 million. It's the fans fault the university did not take home more money, due to the unsold tickets.

In my initial post I made it pretty clear that revenue sharing and unsold tickets will result in the university incurring the cost, thus leading to a lower net gain from playing in a bowl.

BCS payouts and non BCS bowl payouts are accomplished through two different form factors.