No, but football is what drives the bus. Success in the sport is paramount to the trickle-down effect it will have on other sports beneath it. We have no choice but to promote it. And as far as losing money, it's still the #1 revenue generating sport for the university by a mile.
You are right in that the 03 and O4 teams would not be in the NIT today. They played exciting basketball. Would need that type team to have interest in CIT. Someone said it cost 60 grand to be in CIT. I think that is CBI and it is only time you pay. In CIT you pay only to host.
When you ____ the bed on national Tv is has adverse effects.. WHO KNEW !
Bowl games are still an NCAA event and you are paid to attend. The "c" tournaments are not an NCAA event and you have to pay to even get in. IMO it's like the softball NISC or ULM and Wyoming trying to creat the ULMOST bowl.
We're "paid" minimum wage to attend...you can't support a million dollar lifestyle on minimum wage payments...you can scream all you want that we got paid, but we lost a schit load of money to go play with Mickey Mouse and some Lamers in Orlando....I'm willing to bet we lost more on that trip than we did when we paid $15,000 to host a "C" tournament...hell it probably didn't cost us anything after ticket sales...
Actually, most of them provide a ticket allotment that even if you sell probably won't make up the cost of attendance. The only time we did was when the NO Bowl allowed the university to sell about 23K worth of tickets from our ticket office so we shared in much more revenue than is typical for non-P5 bowls. There are a number of those with direct payouts, but you'd best be undefeated to make them.
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