Fact of the day
Did you know that 95% of the NCAA operating budget comes from the NCAA Tournament? Yes, these next 3 weeks, the NCAA makes the VAST bulk of it's $$$$. It's not football, it's basketball that rules the roost.
And let us not forget that UM will be in the dance after a 10-22 season last year. Beilein is a GENIUS.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:23 PM ^
95% of the ENTIRE operating budget comes from just the BASKETBALL ncaa tourney? Interesting. Link?
March 15th, 2009 at 12:36 PM ^
Source: John U Bacon on WTKA radio show this morning. CBS is to pay NCAA 571 million this season alone for sole marketing rights to the tourney.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/189971-Cover_Story_Multimedia_Madne…
March 15th, 2009 at 12:40 PM ^
per this 2005 article
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?id=2186638
March 15th, 2009 at 12:47 PM ^
John U. Bacon also made this point last year in his History of College Athletics course.
Furthermore he also claimed that the Frozen Four is the 2nd biggest moneymaker for the NCAA.
They host the event, therefore they can sell their event, as opposed to college football, where companies sponsor the event and pay the bills as the hosts so they can reap the benefits.
No links, sorry. I could scan my notes if someone really wants. Ha.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:24 PM ^
95% of the time it works every time.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:25 PM ^
23% of statistics are made up
March 15th, 2009 at 12:37 PM ^
and 69% of posters here are moron thread hijackers?
March 15th, 2009 at 12:44 PM ^
moran
61% of all people know that, Kent.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:38 PM ^
Only 47% of sandwiches in the state of Michigan are delicious. That means that 53% of sandwiches in the state of Michigan are NOT delicious. Over half the people in this state who consume sandwiches are not receiving the full benefits of sandwich! IT'S BULLSHIT.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:40 PM ^
It's not that surprising that basketball rules the roost over football. If the NCAA hosted a 1-A football playoff in order to actually make revenue off of it, that might be different.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:44 PM ^
Which is why it doesn't make any sense that there isn't a football playoff...
March 15th, 2009 at 12:48 PM ^
think alike.
March 15th, 2009 at 12:47 PM ^
inclined to dump the bowls and host a football tournament as well.
Why give the money to the NCAA when they can take it straight in themselves.
A lot of schools/coaches/ADs like the idea of half of all post season participants end their season with a win. I am sure that there are other reasons as well.
Still, I do think it is a wonder that these 3rd-party bowls, as archaic as they are, are still around. NCAA football post-season is unique in that aspect in all of sports.
Essentially the NCAA has zero oversight over D-1A college football and because of that, they don't award the championship trophy.
As opposed to the Basketball Tourney, the TV networks negotiate directly with the "non-profit" bowls for tv rights and then the payouts go directly to the teams/conferences.
As said above, it is surprising that the NCAA doesn't take control of the football championship, as that would be the way to control the dough.
However, I think the current payout structure for the bowls so favors the major conferences, that there's too much resistance by the influential schools to an NCAA-led championship because they'd have to share more of the pot of money with the "non BCS" conferences. -- hence one of the reasons the BCS was stacked against the smaller schools until recently.
The NCAA can't force the current bowl system out in favor of a playoff system that they the NCAA would own the rights to.
It makes sense to me that the colleges and conferences would rather keep a larger chunk of change for themselves and keep the current bowl system.
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