(01-01-2022 06:45 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(12-31-2021 07:38 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  Did you folks see the attendance at the Gator Bowl today? Maybe 5000 in attendance. Pitiful.

Yes, felt bad for the Gator Bowl. Venerable old bowl stuck with a turkey game because of the virus.

It will bounce back.

OTOH, the Gasparilla Bowl, which traditionally has terrible attendance, was sold out. Matchups matter.

The good news is that the game was played. Wake Forest didn't get stuck out on a limb after a great season and Rutgers got an opportunity it would not have received. As far as attendance neither team travels that well under normal conditions. Plus, Rutgers was on short notice with their fans settled in on alternative plans because they originally didn't make the bowl cut. Also, air travel itself was a fiasco over the Holidays with many cancellations due to the "Covid Issue" which is still impacting this country and the rest of the world. As Quo said this bowl will bounce back.

(01-02-2022 08:26 AM)panite Wrote:  

(01-01-2022 06:45 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(12-31-2021 07:38 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  Did you folks see the attendance at the Gator Bowl today? Maybe 5000 in attendance. Pitiful.

Yes, felt bad for the Gator Bowl. Venerable old bowl stuck with a turkey game because of the virus.

It will bounce back.

OTOH, the Gasparilla Bowl, which traditionally has terrible attendance, was sold out. Matchups matter.

The good news is that the game was played. Wake Forest didn't get stuck out on a limb after a great season and Rutgers got an opportunity it would not have received. As far as attendance neither team travels that well under normal conditions. Plus, Rutgers was on short notice with their fans settled in on alternative plans because they originally didn't make the bowl cut. Also, air travel itself was a fiasco over the Holidays with many cancellations due to the "Covid Issue" which is still impacting this country and the rest of the world. As Quo said this bowl will bounce back.

No question, as bad as this Gator Bowl was, it was way better that it got played than had it got canceled. Kudos to the Rutgers and Wake fans who did show up.

(12-29-2021 12:32 PM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote:  

(12-29-2021 11:17 AM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(12-29-2021 10:04 AM)ArmoredUpKnight Wrote:  Cincy is pretty much bailing out the conference financially now.

Making the CFP is $6 mil
Making the NY6 is $4 mil
Not making the NY6 would mean your in a lower tier $1-2 mil

Cincy making the CFP is a $4-5 mil swing from not making the NY6 at all.

So even though we lost bowl revenue from games cancelled, its about the same as the AAC not making the NY6 or CFP.

2021 payout will look more like 2016's payout

I'm not sure what you're saying here.

CFP payout to the AAC will look like $27 million this season. Even losing $2.6 million in revenue from the cancelled bowls, there is still $1.5 million in revenue from the other three bowls. In 2016, when WMU got the NY6 slot, the AAC's CFP payout was $20 million, and our other bowl payouts in 2016 were around $4.5 million.
And our primary media rights deal is triple or quadruple what it was in 2016.

Losing 1 or 2 lower tier bowls is fine because we still have the big money bowl.

ECU/Memphis/SMU will be fine because we share bowl revenue and the expenses will be covered because of the massive Semifinal payout of $6 mil. Thank you Cincy!

so y'all didn't get a share of our cotton bowl money?

thank us and we'll consider thanking Cindy, friend.

(12-31-2021 07:38 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  Did you folks see the attendance at the Gator Bowl today? Maybe 5000 in attendance. Pitiful.

That's what happens when a school with <9000 enrollment gets paired with an undeserving 5-7 team with poor attendance at home.

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