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Topic: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Topic: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

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UpSan Bobcat
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Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/24/2012 3:22:34 PM

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/ohio-releases-expenditure-report-potato-bowl

Pretty close to breaking even for this bowl game.

Last year's New Orleans Bowl had to use almost $100,000 of the same fund.

http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-32994-lsbreak-evenrs-bowl-trip-still-raises-some-eyebrows.html

Last Edited: 1/24/2012 3:28:12 PM by UpSan Bobcat

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 12:23:48 AM

$1960 in ticket sales?

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 12:02:36 PM

Casper71 wrote:

$1960 in ticket sales?

At $40/ticket, that means Ohio sold a whopping 49 tickets.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 12:56:23 PM

So, a bunch of people went "for free"?

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 1:09:04 PM

My estimate going in was 50 so I'm not surprised. The Bowl realizes that MAC teams can't get many fans put to that geography in that time frame so they up the payout to compensate. To get a nationally televised Bowl game for $10K is a good deal. I'm glad that the Athletics Dept. saved their ammunition for Gary Trent Day and the IPF.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 3:05:44 PM

I think this minimal financial impact of this bowl game on the department budget is a big reason why every MAC school has been happy to go and would go again.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 6:53:35 PM

UpSan Bobcat wrote:

Casper71 wrote:

$1960 in ticket sales?

At $40/ticket, that means Ohio sold a whopping 49 tickets.

I don't know why, but I continue to be amazed at little support (Crazy support) we have when we only sell 49 tickets. I would think a couple hundred at the minimum. But I can't talk because I didn't go because of conflicts. We've got a long way to go to be taken seriously by most people.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 7:04:38 PM

Nevada sold 10 to the Hawaii Bowl.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 9:33:56 PM

Mike Coleman wrote:

Nevada sold 10 to the Hawaii Bowl.

Now that is disgusting. I would think that a trip to Hawaii would be a no-brainer. Oh well, there's still too many bowls.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/25/2012 9:40:04 PM

Mike Coleman wrote:

Nevada sold 10 to the Hawaii Bowl.

Hawaii Bowl was one of several bowls where empty seats far, far outnumbered occupied ones. They made for morgue-like atmospheres.

At least Boise's stadium seemed nearly full and plenty of crowd noise spiced the TV watching.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/26/2012 10:35:47 AM

One solution would be to make the bowl announcements sooner. It is well known that airfare gets more expensive once you are less than 14 days from the trip. The Boise trip was officially announced 13 days before the game. I would have tried to make the trip if I had 10-14 days more notice. At first I was critical of Boise, but in hindsight I was completely wrong. I am almost compelled to say it is the second-most appealing game to me behind going back to Detroit. It is the best deal financially for the university and the locals seemed to support the game.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/26/2012 6:33:08 PM

Good to see that the cost was only $10,000 this year to play in a bowl. Here's the most complete story on the bowl finances that I've seen so far. Believe it or not, it's in the Athens News.

http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-35919-ou-releases-$$-report-on-football-teamrss-boise-trip.html

Last Edited: 1/26/2012 6:34:54 PM by Alan Swank

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/28/2012 2:00:23 AM

If you buy your tickets on Southwest ( CMH to BOI ) during a sale or a couple of months in advance you can save alot of money. That's how I can afford fly to most of the OU games. Southwest is a savior as there is no cancellatiion fee and if you cancel you can use the tickets up to one year. More fans should go next time Boise was a blast.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/28/2012 1:25:22 PM

txshack wrote:

You were actually there? That automatically makes you the highest respected poster on the football board. You have my envy.

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RE: Less than $10K of bowl expenses come out of "postseason fund"

Posted: 1/28/2012 11:20:30 PM

I feel like Ohio has built a program that that fans can now expect to go to a bowl game on a pretty much yearly basis and budget accordingly if the really want to make the trip. If i was one with disposable income, I would personally buy my plane tickets to whatever the most expensive flight would be (in about 99% of the cases, Boise) at the beginning of the football season. I bet they would barely break $200 bucks round trip each. I know Southwest lets you change your flight (i'm not 100% sure, but I THINK you just pay the difference for the tickets, tell me if i'm wrong).

And if they make it to some place where you think it's worth driving to (like D.C., Detroit, ect.), cancel the flight and just hold onto that honor voucher for whatever trip you might need to take within the next year (OOC basketball game anyone?)

Last Edited: 1/28/2012 11:21:03 PM by KyleWvr13

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