On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Shane Ford wrote: > When you play for the national championship there is a > misconception that the schools participating reap a $17 million pay > day. > > Florida is hoping to make $47,400. > > According to the budget approved by the University Athletic > Association's board of directors last week, UF will spend $2.42 > million on the game and receive $2.467 million in revenue from the > SEC. The rest, as usual, goes into a pot that includes all bowl > revenue and is split by the other 11 conference schools and the > league office. > IIRC, there are two flaws with this view.
First, it ignores that there are 2 SEC teams in BCS bowls. The added revenue from the second team is far more important than whether the first team is in the MNC game or not. Second, IIRC, the split is not even steven. I think that an extra something (like 1/13th) is carved out from each bowl game/NCAA tourney and added to the annual payout of the team that went to that bowl. Perhaps this is just for NCAA tourney, but I recall reading that the annual payout from the SEC to each team was not identical, and this was the reason. -Zeb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
