Zeb,
I believe that the funding formula has changed. I am not sure when, but the old rule was the revenue was divided by 2+ the number of schools in the sport. The school going to the bowl then got 2/(the number of schools in the sport + 2). From what I am seeing reported, the formula seems to be changed to the number of schools + 1. I don't know if the reason some schools get more today is because they might have a sport that other schools do not. Thus, for example if a school gets revenue from being in a hockey playoff, they would get a share of that revenue when other schools that don't have a hockey team would not. I fully admit that I am writing the above from memory rather than from the study of something official. It may be that somewhere the real rules can be found. Jerry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Vega Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Miami slice of the payout pie (Dooley) 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
