Bowl Ponderings.
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:05 am
Bowl Numbers.
Lets figure this out a bit. Assuming we share with UCF and Marshall, the bowl games will bring in $4,500,000 in cash. That figures to about $321,000 per team if you divide it out evenly across the MAC. Of course a lot of the cash will be burned in shipping teams, alumni staff, and others to the game.
We will have 6 nationally televised games with the top half of the MAC playing mostly winnable games, from coast to coast.
The MAC will gain from having the networks hyping 6 games with conference members in them. More to the point, we have stories to hype with each team. Even if Bob Pruett said he considers his team a "CUSA program" as of now, if he wants the bowl money, he has to wear the MAC label one more time. Plus the networks will still hype them as being from the MAC.
The exposure for the MAC nationally and on the west coast simply can't be over valued. If one team were going, it would be nice, but not a long-term thing. Now three or four MAC teams may play out west. That is a lot of regional ink never spent on the MAC before. One program might not consider calling on recruits out there. But if five or six teams can leverage the hype, it might open a few doors nobody would knock on alone. There is talent out there that gets stuck between the PAC, WAC, and 1AA. If suddenly a kid has Akron, BG, NIU, and other MAC schools sending letters, making calls, the trip out here might not be a bad deal for a 1A scholarship. Especially after the hype the players in the MAC are getting.
Local papers, normally putting MAC football to bed for the year, are having to dedicate ink and staff to teams all over the place. This helps locally, and is especially great for the MAC in Akron and Kent.
If we were worried about lousy OOC results this year, here is a chance to bury them and rack up something better.
Special circumstances aside, Marshall leaving for CUSA because of 5 bowl bids, after a year when they bring up the rear of the MAC's 6 bids, is amusing.
If there is something outside of my own team that makes me happy about this, it is that the Zips can really get a boost out of this. Plus Kent had a decent year, and OU showed they are worth saving.
Even if it does not motivate bowl organizers, there is value in having new programs and their fans going to games expands the market for such things.
These games will ensure our commissioner is on national TV six times. The MAC should invest in some flashy, well produced TV spots, because they are going to air during six bowl games. MAC programs will have their ads promoted nationally six times.
Now if they can just win the games.
The full impact of this season, will take all summer to realize.
Lets figure this out a bit. Assuming we share with UCF and Marshall, the bowl games will bring in $4,500,000 in cash. That figures to about $321,000 per team if you divide it out evenly across the MAC. Of course a lot of the cash will be burned in shipping teams, alumni staff, and others to the game.
We will have 6 nationally televised games with the top half of the MAC playing mostly winnable games, from coast to coast.
The MAC will gain from having the networks hyping 6 games with conference members in them. More to the point, we have stories to hype with each team. Even if Bob Pruett said he considers his team a "CUSA program" as of now, if he wants the bowl money, he has to wear the MAC label one more time. Plus the networks will still hype them as being from the MAC.
The exposure for the MAC nationally and on the west coast simply can't be over valued. If one team were going, it would be nice, but not a long-term thing. Now three or four MAC teams may play out west. That is a lot of regional ink never spent on the MAC before. One program might not consider calling on recruits out there. But if five or six teams can leverage the hype, it might open a few doors nobody would knock on alone. There is talent out there that gets stuck between the PAC, WAC, and 1AA. If suddenly a kid has Akron, BG, NIU, and other MAC schools sending letters, making calls, the trip out here might not be a bad deal for a 1A scholarship. Especially after the hype the players in the MAC are getting.
Local papers, normally putting MAC football to bed for the year, are having to dedicate ink and staff to teams all over the place. This helps locally, and is especially great for the MAC in Akron and Kent.
If we were worried about lousy OOC results this year, here is a chance to bury them and rack up something better.
Special circumstances aside, Marshall leaving for CUSA because of 5 bowl bids, after a year when they bring up the rear of the MAC's 6 bids, is amusing.
If there is something outside of my own team that makes me happy about this, it is that the Zips can really get a boost out of this. Plus Kent had a decent year, and OU showed they are worth saving.
Even if it does not motivate bowl organizers, there is value in having new programs and their fans going to games expands the market for such things.
These games will ensure our commissioner is on national TV six times. The MAC should invest in some flashy, well produced TV spots, because they are going to air during six bowl games. MAC programs will have their ads promoted nationally six times.
Now if they can just win the games.
The full impact of this season, will take all summer to realize.
