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Posted: 12/9/2024 5:20 PM
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A. We are probably making $3 Million Total for these games when it should be close to $25 Million. Good job. ....

I presume this is intended as sarcasm or humor? My guess is that Ohio State probably will have $8 million in ticket sales for the Ohio game, while Rutgers and WV will have $2-2.5 million in ticket sales. Thus, you are saying that playing Ohio is such an honor that other teams should be willing to pay 200% of their ticket sales for the privilege? The fact is that those schools have developed a fan base that fills their stadiums at real ticket prices. There is no reason they would ever agree to give all it to a visiting team, much less double all of it.
Are they only supposed to pay their opponent off the gate revenues? I would argue their CFP revenues are built off the backs of the Group of Five as well - Greg Byrne just made the point explicitly in our favor.

I don't agree with Ted's point above, but at least the man has ideas and actions.
So B-Love, what do you believe a P4 like WVU should be paying us? What’s should that game be worth?
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Posted: 12/9/2024 5:24 PM
BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
A. We are probably making $3 Million Total for these games when it should be close to $25 Million. Good job. ....

I presume this is intended as sarcasm or humor? My guess is that Ohio State probably will have $8 million in ticket sales for the Ohio game, while Rutgers and WV will have $2-2.5 million in ticket sales. Thus, you are saying that playing Ohio is such an honor that other teams should be willing to pay 200% of their ticket sales for the privilege? The fact is that those schools have developed a fan base that fills their stadiums at real ticket prices. There is no reason they would ever agree to give all it to a visiting team, much less double all of it.
Are they only supposed to pay their opponent off the gate revenues? I would argue their CFP revenues are built off the backs of the Group of Five as well - Greg Byrne just made the point explicitly in our favor.

I don't agree with Ted's point above, but at least the man has ideas and actions.
So B-Love, what do you believe a P4 like WVU should be paying us? What’s should that game be worth?
Somewhere in the 14 threads he started, he said that we should be getting ~25m for next year's 3 P4 games.
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Posted: 12/9/2024 7:22 PM
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:expand_more
A. We are probably making $3 Million Total for these games when it should be close to $25 Million. Good job. ....

I presume this is intended as sarcasm or humor? My guess is that Ohio State probably will have $8 million in ticket sales for the Ohio game, while Rutgers and WV will have $2-2.5 million in ticket sales. Thus, you are saying that playing Ohio is such an honor that other teams should be willing to pay 200% of their ticket sales for the privilege? The fact is that those schools have developed a fan base that fills their stadiums at real ticket prices. There is no reason they would ever agree to give all it to a visiting team, much less double all of it.
Are they only supposed to pay their opponent off the gate revenues? I would argue their CFP revenues are built off the backs of the Group of Five as well - Greg Byrne just made the point explicitly in our favor.

I don't agree with Ted's point above, but at least the man has ideas and actions.
So B-Love, what do you believe a P4 like WVU should be paying us? What’s should that game be worth?
Somewhere in the 14 threads he started, he said that we should be getting ~25m for next year's 3 P4 games.
Has stated that many times. So we pay WVU $125k for coming to us and he thinks they owe us $5M.
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Posted: 12/9/2024 8:43 PM
No, he thinks they owe Ohio $8.3 million (25/3).

To be honest, I suspect that with all the money flowing to NIL, teams will start paying less for buy games, not more.
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus
Last Edited: 12/9/2024 8:45:06 PM by L.C.
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Posted: 12/9/2024 8:49 PM
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No, he thinks they owe Ohio $8.3 million (25/3).

To be honest, I suspect that with all the money flowing to NIL, teams will start paying less for buy games, not more.
I agree with that! And not just NIL, but the schools that are committing to revenue sharing. Several schools have committed to the maximum percentage. The problem is, this is revenue and not “profit” sharing, so yeah, Buy games may be reduced.
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Posted: 12/11/2024 1:54 PM
"So B-Love, what do you believe a P4 like WVU should be paying us? What’s should that game be worth?"


BTC- Maybe B-Love has information on the paltry figure WVU is paying Ohio for this three game series?
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