"The Mountaineers improved to 7-36-1 against top-tier teams since 1978, the previous six victories all over Wake Forest, and took home a $400,000 check from Michigan to boot." Why did they 400,000$??? Thanks
2007-09-03 18:32:26 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
So win or loose they get the 400K i take it.
2007-09-03 18:48:26 · update #1
I think its cause they were a small school that was suppose to get creamed small colleges get paid to play the big teams and get killed the money goes to scholarships and to fund their athletic program but im not 100 percent sure that is my guess this is a good question ask the guy who wrote it on ESPN they answer questions
2007-09-03 18:40:10 · answer #1 · answered by nicolas b 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a good question.
I don't understand why they have 1-AA teams playing with the likes of Michigan anyways.
It's similar to the Nashville Sounds (Minor league baseball team) playing the St. Louis Cardinals.
2007-09-04 02:53:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's called a contract every game that is played has a contract! So in this case for Appalachian State was paid 400,000 dollars for the game as stipulated in the contract. Every college football game is under contract.
2007-09-04 01:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by Steven R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's paid to the visiting school out of a fund and done by many big schools to pay a small schools expenses to visit .
Yes, win or lose they get paid. The guy that said it's in a contract is correct. All college games are scheduled with a contract.
2007-09-04 01:41:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They took home 400,000 grand because thats how much Michigan payed them to travel to Ann Arbor to take a "*** whipping."
See there is really no reason for these D-1AA schools like Western Kentucky or Montana State to come in and play a powerhouse school like Michigan, Florida, or Louisville; who will spank their teams 77-3 and demoralize their football teams; especially when these smaller schools have to pay money to travel to these big time colleges.
So when big D-1 schools wish to schedule smaller schools they offer loads and loads of money for them to come in and get beat up and tossed around by the first-second-and third string. Unfortunetally for Michigan they chose to pick a fight with the wrong dogs who chewed them a new one, ruinied their national title hopes, embarassed them in front of the nation, and probably got their coach fired.
2007-09-04 01:40:20 · answer #5 · answered by Coach Lombardi 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Uh...Yeah...They went to Michigan because Michigan thought they were scheduling a cupcake sure-win game...oops...
And just like any other game, the visiting team gets paid a certain amount for the game...
2007-09-04 03:56:34 · answer #6 · answered by Terry C. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of games are sponsored that the schools athletic fund or general scholarship fund gets money for the win. This game's purse was 400000.
2007-09-04 01:38:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
yup. they get the money because of the media coverage.
2007-09-04 01:50:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋