Exact Amount GSU Received from Celebration Bowl


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Grambling State capped its 2016 football season, edging out North Carolina Central, 10-9, for the HBCU National Championship at the second ever Celebration Bowl in Atlanta. The victory pulled in $702,200 for the GSU football program and athletic department.

The payout for the Celebration Bowl victory stamps a solid money figure on what winning can do for smaller programs and athletic departments like Grambling. The HBCU national title takes up a big part of the large spike of the more than 21 percent jump in total operating revenue for the school.
 



Bewildered said:
WTF??????????!!!!!!!! NAW MAN!!!!! I thought.... smh Dang somebody explain this one. smh
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This is nothing new B! This is pretty much how it's done with all postseason bowl games at the FBS level.

Keep in mind one key point ... these bowl games (The Rose Bowl, Orange, Sugar, etc.) are agreements that are signed between the bowl game creators and athletic conferences, not the schools that participate in the bowl games. The schools who participate are simply conference representatives. So when it is time for the bowl committee to cut checks, those checks are cut in the names of the conferences (as agreed upon). Once the conferences get the check, they then disburse those funds to their member school according to whatever by-laws they have in place.

So when you see all of these bowl games, notice how some conferences will have damn near half of their teams playing in a bowl game. The more schools a conference can get in a bowl game, the more money the conference (and its member schools) potentially make.

The Celebration Bowl is an agreement between ESPN (bowl creator) and the MEAC and SWAC. The MEAC and SWAC simply agree to send its best team to the CB in order to get that check,
 
wait...

so only the winner gets money? I though each school in the SWAC and MEAC gets a share of the pie.
 
But... But... What about playing for a true national championship? The love of playing to hoist that official NCAA wood and all that soft money and exposure!?!
 
Tigerpride said:
I dont get the connection.
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This is my point.

So maybe my comprehension is off but the article states this:

The victory pulled in $702,200 for the GSU football program and athletic department.

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I would really like a fact checker to present the facts in black and white....not what they heard or what they are sharing by someone on the basis of anonymity.
 
Kenn Rashad said:
This is nothing new B! This is pretty much how it's done with all postseason bowl games at the FBS level.

Keep in mind one key point ... these bowl games (The Rose Bowl, Orange, Sugar, etc.) are agreements that are signed between the bowl game creators and athletic conferences, not the schools that participate in the bowl games. The schools who participate are simply conference representatives. So when it is time for the bowl committee to cut checks, those checks are cut in the names of the conferences (as agreed upon). Once the conferences get the check, they then disburse those funds to their member school according to whatever by-laws they have in place.

So when you see all of these bowl games, notice how some conferences will have damn near half of their teams playing in a bowl game. The more schools a conference can get in a bowl game, the more money the conference (and its member schools) potentially make.

The Celebration Bowl is an agreement between ESPN (bowl creator) and the MEAC and SWAC. The MEAC and SWAC simply agree to send its best team to the CB in order to get that check,
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So the conference office can dip, if they desire? Use @ their own discretion? Oh my....
 
Bewildered said:
So the conference office can dip, if they desire? Use @ their own discretion? Oh my....
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That is not true. The presidents have agreed on a formula for the money to be distributed. I think the same formula is used for NCAA basketball.
 
Bewildered said:
So the conference office can dip, if they desire? Use @ their own discretion? Oh my....
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I guess that's one way to look at it. But the funds ultimately are disbursed based on that specific conference's revenue-sharing formula. If you want to call it "dipping" that's fine, but keep in mind, the ultimate responsibility of a conference is to make money for its membership. The conference office needs money in order to operate.
 



JROCK said:
Founder, I vaguely remember that both conference are supposed to receive 1M and the winner get the lion's share in the SWAC (MEAC's split may be a little different). If the split is 70/30, the $700K may very well be Grambling's cut.
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How can Grambling get a cut when the conference was operating at a supposed deficit when sTu got zip from our NCAA Tournament appearances?
 
JROCK said:
Founder, I vaguely remember that both conference are supposed to receive 1M and the winner get the lion's share in the SWAC (MEAC's split may be a little different). If the split is 70/30, the $700K may very well be Grambling's cut.
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That's the thing we can kill all this speculation with a few calls. I have been searching online and only found the article about each conference getting $1 million but the split is what I am concerned about.
 
The Founder said:
That's the thing we can kill all this speculation with a few calls. I have been searching online and only found the article about each conference getting $1 million but the split is what I am concerned about.
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Yeah, I deleted that post. I couldn't find anything to justify it online. I saw all kind of numbers most lower than 2M for the game.
 
Herbert77060 said:
How can Grambling get a cut when the conference was operating at a supposed deficit when sTu got zip from our NCAA Tournament appearances?
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I think there is a difference. Texas Southern did not win the tournament. Also, this bowl game is between the winners of the SWAC/MEAC. If there was a basketball tournament with the winner of the SWAC/MEAC with a sponsor then that's different.

Yet, I thought that all teams that go to the basketball post season received some type of check.
 
The Founder said:
It's no problem. My question is what is the equation to determine the split.
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One thing we can surmise (assuming the article is at the very least partially correct), if the conference got at least $700K (perhaps more if that is truly Grambling's cut), then the payout this year was a minimum of 1.4M for the Bowl.
 
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