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I was just curious if anyone knew what the payout was for the GMAC Bowl. I think it is awesome how BG football is doing so well with money lately. Last year Purdue, Ohio State, Gameday, MCB were all great for BG Football in money. That probably helped the new uniform cost. So this year, Oklahoma and the GMAC are also great. I heard OK was $500,000 and I was just wondering this years Bowl payout.

goBG wrote:I was just curious if anyone knew what the payout was for the GMAC Bowl. I think it is awesome how BG football is doing so well with money lately. Last year Purdue, Ohio State, Gameday, MCB were all great for BG Football in money. That probably helped the new uniform cost. So this year, Oklahoma and the GMAC are also great. I heard OK was $500,000 and I was just wondering this years Bowl payout.

The $500,000 Oklahoma trip was infinitely more lucrative than the GMAC trip will be.

The payout is $750,000.

To figure out what we get:

-- Deduct travel and lodging expenses and per diems for the team, coaches and anyone else who tags along.
-- Deduct the price of whatever tickets we fail to sell but were required to guarantee
-- Then split what's left into about 15 or 16 pieces.
-- Hand all those pieces over to the MAC.

We'll get two of those pieces back.

The league office will get one or two of those pieces.

Every other MAC team will get one piece.

It ain't much.

We probably won't have to worry about paying for unsold tickets. The GMAC bowl was sold out last year and they anticipate the same this year. Also, I don't believe the money is split equally. We will get a larger portion and the rest of the MAC teams get a smaller equal portion. Also, don't forget that we will also get our share of the MCB, Silicon Valley, Ft. Worth, and any other bowl a MAC team plays in.

BelieveNBG wrote:We probably won't have to worry about paying for unsold tickets. The GMAC bowl was sold out last year and they anticipate the same this year. Also, I don't believe the money is split equally. We will get a larger portion and the rest of the MAC teams get a smaller equal portion. Also, don't forget that we will also get our share of the MCB, Silicon Valley, Ft. Worth, and any other bowl a MAC team plays in.

You are very right! We're not having an equal split, we get a higher portion as the team playing in the game.

Sorry, its an equal split. From Today's Blade:

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The GMAC Bowl has a payout of $750,000 per team, although BG won't get anywhere near that amount. Bowling Green will pay its expenses from that money, and the rest is turned over to the MAC, which sends an equal share to each of the league's 14 teams.
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You play Bowl games for the exposure, the extra practices, and as a reward to your team. The money (at our level) isn't the reason.

I think BG going south works out well, its a good recruiting game, keeps our name in an area of the country where we got people like Omar. The money is secondary to the fact we are in a game. The GMAC bowl gets decent ratings as well, and has a reputation now as a offensive festival. The hype of two scoring machines matching up will be huge.

The Motor City Bowl does pay $800,000 as somebody from up north noted. Of course, you'd have to pay people extra to do anything in Detroit. The game is mocked nationally as the armpit of college bowl games. That is somewhat unfair. The game is well organized, well attended, and solidly sponsored. Outside of the nations worst city surrounding it, the game is solid. The burbs aren't bad, but that isn't where the game is played. Maybe it is fitting that there is a chance the team from Little Detroit University and Vocational School gets to go there this year.

Ultimately, any bowl is better than no bowl. Miami will turn out in force if their game is in Detroit, or they will travel well to San Jose. Lots of wine and cheese in that area. Plus the University of Little Detroit seems like it could sure use the extra money from what I read these days. I'm sure their fans will have to have bake sales to cover the 15 million dollar gap they have in their budget.

So basically our money game this year was Oklahoma right? And we reap all the rewards from that, am I right?

rc_ziggy84 wrote:So basically our money game this year was Oklahoma right? And we reap all the rewards from that, am I right?

Yep.