Will BCS bowl money be split among the MAC teams??

[Siborg]

NIU has to leapfrog Boise or Boise gets the BCS invite. Leapfrogging Michigan is just a bonus assuming we do leapfrog Nebraska, UCLA, Texas, Kent and Boise.

I do not see NIU getting by Boise though. Boise is the comfortable vote over a MAC team. Plus, Boise has feasted on MAC teams in recent years including this year.

[transfer2BGSU]

The biggest payday in MAC history, works out this way:

• $7 million of the $28.2 million is divided between the five non-BCS conferences (Conference USA, Mountain West, MAC, Sun Belt and WAC).

• Another $7 million is divided into 15 “units” based on conference strength. Because it is the No. 1 ranked non-BCS league, the MAC will receive five of those 15 shares, followed by the No. 2-ranked conference getting four shares, etc.

• The MAC will get $8 million of the remaining $14 million as the participating conference.

• The other $6 million will be split up into those 15 units.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... al-with-it


So the way I read it, the MAC gets a quick $15 million of the 28.2 million PLUS five of the 15 units ($400,000 each unit) for an additional $2 million. TOTAL for the Conference is $17 million.

[Globetrotter]

Does NIU get a bigger share?

[hammb]

Does NIU get a bigger share?

Pretty sure it's up to the conference to disperse the funds as they see fit, but I would be SHOCKED if NIU didn't get a bigger share.

I imagine that they'll get 5-6 million with a million to the other football members.

No matter how they disburse the funds this is a HUGE financial gain for this conference. Where our budgets are this is game changing money. Now let's get a basketball coach with it!

[Flipper]

Or we could pay our current FB coach a few hundred grand a year more to stick around...

[hammb]

Or we could pay our current FB coach a few hundred grand a year more to stick around...

I'd spread it around. Use some to buy out Orr and the rest to up the pay of Clawson and the new Hoops coach.