Payouts for 2006-2007 Bowl games:
Rose Bowl - $14.9 Million
Fiesta Bowl - $14-$17 Million
Orange Bowl - $14-$17 Million
BCS Title game- $14-$17 Million
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Is this too much? not enough? Tell me anything you want just let me hear what yall have to say about it.
2006-10-06 18:05:39 · 5 answers · asked by Travis S 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
I think youre talking more about professional sports. These are payouts for college games.
2006-10-06 18:13:58 · update #1
I think it is great. When I was a biochemistry professor, I was able to fund several undergraduates using money the school received from NCAA bowl games.
All money awarded in an NCAA bowl game HAS to go the schools general scholarship fund.
Also, the NCAA is mandated by law to return 95% of all the funds they receive back to the schools. That money awarded in those bowl games will continue to increase as television networks pay more and more to carry the games.
There was a government report in the late 1980s that estimated that funds earned by schools through the NCAA had put more than two million students through University on non-athletic scholarships between 1960 and 1985.
Keep in mind in 1995, the payout for the Rose Bowl was only 2.5MM per team, we've come a long way.
The thing that irks me about this years schedule is that they stuck two meaningless games between the Sugar Bowl and BCS Title Game.
2006-10-06 18:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by Robert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the chic who answered first should ask all of the local business execs who make 1+mill/yr the same question.
2006-10-07 02:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by boxinfan2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really not that much money when you consider that the team who wins the money has to split it with their entire conference. Plus the fact that most programs are lucky to break even every year.
2006-10-07 01:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think we WAY overpay sports people as it is. it gives them big heads and *********, and what do they do to help humanity in their daily jobs anyway? sure, they donate to charities, but that's more of like a special thing. i want to know what they do everyday to help kids, poor people, the environment, etc.
2006-10-07 01:08:30 · answer #4 · answered by mighty_power7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Collegfe football is big business now.
2006-10-07 01:12:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋