Why not change the bowl money splits?

[sportsart]

My understanding is all the bowl money is split up evenly right?

As incentive to stay why not give the BCS Bowl participant 50% of their bowl money?

That's at least 8.5 million right?

I think that's quite an incentive seeing that any Big East team that joins another confetence has a much tougher time getting to a BCS game. Don't know if any conference lets the BCS team keep as much or all the bowl money.

Time to be creative.

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

Because then Pitt and Syracuse (and Rutgers too) would get even less money. They need the even split of revenue since they will never actually make the BCS bowl.

 

[IMind]

I do think the BCS money needs to be restructured... but the BCS money is almost small change compared to what these TV contracts mean.

 

[Nostical]

I like Sportsart idea with one edit. I'd subtract the unsold ticket allocation from the BCS participant's 50% share and spread the balance among the league. That's incentivising.

 

[businesslawyer]

My understanding is all the bowl money is split up evenly right?

As incentive to stay why not give the BCS Bowl participant 50% of their bowl money?

That's at least 8.5 million right?

No. All the bowl revenue goes into a pot, but the higher you finished in the Big East standings the bigger serving out of the pot you get.

I think that's quite an incentive seeing that any Big East team that joins another confetence has a much tougher time getting to a BCS game. Don't know if any conference lets the BCS team keep as much or all the bowl money.

Time to be creative.

 

[Druken Friar]

Maybe if you gave ND all the BCS money for say 10 years they would join the Big East for football. How's that for creative.