Jafus (Thinker)
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This is type of game the BCS member and Bowl Committees are playing. This is big time and serious business.
If BCF is indeed going to operate in this field, then how do BCF Officials play the game effectively to create an infrastructue and environment to place BCF in a position to take advantage of this enterprise?
Is the MEAC planning on positioning itself to capitalize in some format with the potential expansion of the conference to 12 football (14 total) participating members?
New deal, bigger payoff
Chick-fil-A Bowl to pick No. 2 ACC team
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/1205/29peach.html?cxntnid=sprt122905e
By TONY BARNHART
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/29/05
The Peach Bowl's new deal with Chick-fil-A will pay its first big dividend Thursday when the ACC announces it will send its No. 2 team to Atlanta, beginning in 2006.
ACC commissioner John Swofford and Peach president Gary Stokan confirmed to the Journal-Constitution the deal had been reached and will be announced Thursday at a news conference at the Georgia Dome.
Since 1993, the ACC has sent its No. 3 team to the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl to play the No. 4 or No. 5 selection from the SEC. In exchange for the No. 2 pick, which currently goes to the Toyota Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, the ACC will see its payout increase from $2.4 million this year to $3.25 million in 2006.
"What you have to say is that the Chick-fil-A Bowl has earned this opportunity," Swofford said from his office in Greensboro, N.C. "When we met with our athletic directors, we just decided that Chick-fil-A had really stepped up to the plate and that this made a lot of sense for our conference."
Earlier this month, Chick-fil-A signed a five-year, $22 million deal for naming rights to the Atlanta bowl. Starting in 2006, the game will be known as the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
The Chick-fil-A Bowl is still in negotiations with the SEC on its new contract. Currently, the first four teams from the league go to the BCS, Capital One, Outback and AT&T Cotton bowls. If the Chick-fil-A is not able to get a higher pick, the SEC's payout from the game will remain at $2.4 million.
"We love our relationship with the SEC, but the ACC was willing to make a very important commitment to us and we felt they should be rewarded for that," Stokan said. "It just makes our game stronger and more attractive."
The move made sense to the ACC because it picked Jacksonville, the home of the Gator Bowl, as the site for its new conference championship game, which debuted on Dec. 3. By giving the No. 2 pick to the Chick-fil-A, the loser of that game could come to Atlanta instead of going back to Jacksonville, as Virginia Tech is doing this season.
But this decision, as most in the bowl business are, is also about money. According to the Gator Bowl's Web site, it paid $1.6 million each to the ACC and Big East last season. According to Chick-fil-A's Web site, the Atlanta bowl paid the ACC and the SEC $2.35 million each after last year's game between Miami and Florida.
"The fact is that financially this bowl has grown into a very solid situation for us," Swofford said. "The fact is we're a much deeper conference now and so we'll have more quality teams at the top of our bowl inventory."
In the past two years, the ACC has added Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College to form a 12-team league.
If BCF is indeed going to operate in this field, then how do BCF Officials play the game effectively to create an infrastructue and environment to place BCF in a position to take advantage of this enterprise?
Is the MEAC planning on positioning itself to capitalize in some format with the potential expansion of the conference to 12 football (14 total) participating members?
New deal, bigger payoff
Chick-fil-A Bowl to pick No. 2 ACC team
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/1205/29peach.html?cxntnid=sprt122905e
By TONY BARNHART
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/29/05
The Peach Bowl's new deal with Chick-fil-A will pay its first big dividend Thursday when the ACC announces it will send its No. 2 team to Atlanta, beginning in 2006.
ACC commissioner John Swofford and Peach president Gary Stokan confirmed to the Journal-Constitution the deal had been reached and will be announced Thursday at a news conference at the Georgia Dome.
Since 1993, the ACC has sent its No. 3 team to the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl to play the No. 4 or No. 5 selection from the SEC. In exchange for the No. 2 pick, which currently goes to the Toyota Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, the ACC will see its payout increase from $2.4 million this year to $3.25 million in 2006.
"What you have to say is that the Chick-fil-A Bowl has earned this opportunity," Swofford said from his office in Greensboro, N.C. "When we met with our athletic directors, we just decided that Chick-fil-A had really stepped up to the plate and that this made a lot of sense for our conference."
Earlier this month, Chick-fil-A signed a five-year, $22 million deal for naming rights to the Atlanta bowl. Starting in 2006, the game will be known as the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
The Chick-fil-A Bowl is still in negotiations with the SEC on its new contract. Currently, the first four teams from the league go to the BCS, Capital One, Outback and AT&T Cotton bowls. If the Chick-fil-A is not able to get a higher pick, the SEC's payout from the game will remain at $2.4 million.
"We love our relationship with the SEC, but the ACC was willing to make a very important commitment to us and we felt they should be rewarded for that," Stokan said. "It just makes our game stronger and more attractive."
The move made sense to the ACC because it picked Jacksonville, the home of the Gator Bowl, as the site for its new conference championship game, which debuted on Dec. 3. By giving the No. 2 pick to the Chick-fil-A, the loser of that game could come to Atlanta instead of going back to Jacksonville, as Virginia Tech is doing this season.
But this decision, as most in the bowl business are, is also about money. According to the Gator Bowl's Web site, it paid $1.6 million each to the ACC and Big East last season. According to Chick-fil-A's Web site, the Atlanta bowl paid the ACC and the SEC $2.35 million each after last year's game between Miami and Florida.
"The fact is that financially this bowl has grown into a very solid situation for us," Swofford said. "The fact is we're a much deeper conference now and so we'll have more quality teams at the top of our bowl inventory."
In the past two years, the ACC has added Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College to form a 12-team league.
