Re: Now. Who is coming to East Lansing
You really don't seem to understand this concept, do you?
No matter what, Michigan State was going to get 1/11th of all of the bowl money earned by the Big Ten (roughly $3.5 mill). Considering one of the two spots in the Capital One Bowl is reserved for a Big Ten team, they didn't earn any additional money by happening to be the Big Ten team to fill that slot.
You could say that they got more money by the Big Ten getting 2 teams into BCS bowl games, as opposed to just the guaranteed one. But that's only an extra $17 million ($18 million for the BCS game, minus the ~$1 million the Big Ten would get from some lesser bowl when everything trickled down), divided amongst 11 teams is ~$1.5 million. But the Big Ten gets two teams in BCS games about half the time, so it's really only $750k more than they expected.
Originally posted by dggoddard
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You really don't seem to understand this concept, do you?
No matter what, Michigan State was going to get 1/11th of all of the bowl money earned by the Big Ten (roughly $3.5 mill). Considering one of the two spots in the Capital One Bowl is reserved for a Big Ten team, they didn't earn any additional money by happening to be the Big Ten team to fill that slot.
You could say that they got more money by the Big Ten getting 2 teams into BCS bowl games, as opposed to just the guaranteed one. But that's only an extra $17 million ($18 million for the BCS game, minus the ~$1 million the Big Ten would get from some lesser bowl when everything trickled down), divided amongst 11 teams is ~$1.5 million. But the Big Ten gets two teams in BCS games about half the time, so it's really only $750k more than they expected.
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