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falconjw wrote:With the MAC projecting 5 teams I figured I would calucate the payout per team. Not sure of the exact formula, but I know it is split among all MAC teams. I'm sure the league office gets a small portion of these payouts, does anyone know the split???

Pizza Bowl- 750,000
EagleBank- 1,000,000
Humanitarian 750,000
International 750,000
GMAC 750,000

4 million payout to the MAC, if split 13 equal ways would come out to approx $308,000. I don't even want to think about comparing that to the BCS conferences, especially Big Ten and SEC who have two teams in BCS bowls that payout 18,000,000 per team.

daspollak wrote:Here is a thought to protect bowl teams in the conference, let them keep enough money to pay their expenses and then divide it up amongst the conference.

factman wrote:Yep.......if we would have just dropped hockey, we wouldn't have a problem!

michhiker28 wrote:When you divide peanuts by 13 what do you get?

--MH

December 11 , 2009



Dear Faculty and Staff,

This has been a great week for Falcon football. On Sunday, our football team received an invitation to play in the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl. Last night, wide receiver Freddie Barnes was featured on the 2009 College Football Awards on national television as a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award, presented annually to the nation's top receiver. While another athlete won, it is a tremendous honor for him to be one of the three finalists -- and a first for a BGSU player.

I hope you'll join me in congratulating Freddie, first-year Coach Dave Clawson and his staff, and the entire football team on an outstanding season. It's a great honor to be one of only 68 teams in Division I football to be invited to play in a bowl game.

It's also been a good year for the Mid-American Conference. Five MAC teams were selected for bowl games, raising the national profile of the conference and all its 13 member universities.

The Humanitarian Bowl is a tremendous opportunity for our team and a great way for our seniors to close out their BGSU careers. The benefits to the University are significant. Based on television ratings from previous broadcasts, about 3 million people will tune in.

The game will help us increase awareness of the University among prospective students and parents and serves as a wonderful reminder to alumni across the country of their BGSU experience.

That said, we're mindful of the expense to participate in the bowl and are working to control costs, including reducing the number of staff attending and shortening the team's length of stay.

Fortunately, the payments we receive from the Humanitarian Bowl and from the MAC will cover the expenses for the team and the athletic department. While we won't make money, we expect to break even.

There will be some costs for the trip that will need to be covered outside of Athletic Department budgets. For example, I'll be using funds from my budget to send a contingent of about 60 members of the Falcon Marching Band. I am personally very disappointed that the entire band will not be able to go to Boise, but sending everyone would cost in excess of $250,000. We also had to make the same difficult decision about sending only some members of our spirit groups. These decisions were especially difficult because these students are excellent representatives of BGSU and passionate supporters of the team.

I've been very impressed by the leadership and maturity shown by the members of our marching band and spirit groups as we made decisions about what we could afford. I'm confident that these smaller contingents will make their peers here at home and the entire University community proud.

The BGSU Foundation will also be helping to defray some bowl-related expenses.

I hope you share my excitement about the game and will be cheering for our Falcons and Freddie Barnes as he tries to break the NCAA record for receptions.

Best Regards,

Carol Cartwright
President