Quote:
|
Originally Posted by superdds
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by SmokeG305
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by superdds
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by SmokeG305
yeah it did. it determines whether they're 3rd or 4th seed for this year. plus, the winner gets scholarship money for their school.
think of it as the bronze medal game, in an olympic setting  |
i think the whole conference gets a cut of the prize money. |
hmmm... i dont know about that  |
im pretty sure on this one. |
You are correct on this, my dental friend. The participating teams get reimbursed for their travel costs, but the prize money is split and given to the two conferences represented at the game. The conferences then split the money evenly among its schools. This is why it was such a HUGE decision to invite Notre Dame to the Fiesta Bowl rather than, say, Oregon. ND does not belong to a conference so they get to keep their half of the prize money. Of course, the PAC 10 sent 5 teams to bowl games so the conference gets to split half of the purse of all of those games (most of which pay out WAY less than the BCS games).
BTW, this is also the biggest reason why the school adminstrators oppose a playoff system. The current system funds a HUGE amount of athletic needs at the universities and a playoff system could conceivably kill the gravy train.
