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    Bowl game gifts......

    This is pretty sweet, the bowl game gifts given to players. This does not include the gifts given by the team. http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/64318


    For example Oregon State players get

    Sweatshirts
    Track suits
    new nike shoes
    $300 to best buy
    luggage

    On top of the bowl game gifts listed in this article. My favorite gifts:

    Meineke Car Care bowl: Commemorative Richard Petty Driving Experience photo

    Brut Sun Bowl: Brut hair dryer

    I also love how so many bowls give out footballs.
    *Banned*
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    Where does this money come from? Ticket sales? Advertising dollars?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by JohnnyLingo View Post
      Where does this money come from? Ticket sales? Advertising dollars?
      I am guessing all of the above. Mostly advertising dollars.

      Every player on the team gets these gifts. For bowl games all of the players get to travel. So BYU has 105 players on the roster they all get these gifts.
      *Banned*

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      • #4
        Originally posted by JohnnyLingo View Post
        Where does this money come from? Ticket sales? Advertising dollars?
        Today's San Diego Union-Tribune has a cover story about bowl game economics. My guess is the gifts are part of the bowl game overhead, which the teams end up liable for via ticket sales:

        http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...es-price-play/

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        • #5
          This is the condemnation of the bowl system

          The Pacific Life Holiday Bowl is one of the fortunate few. Its Dec. 30 game at Qualcomm Stadium is sold out. Not only that, but both teams, Nebraska and Arizona, quickly sold out the 11,000-ticket allotments they were required to buy from the game. Many of the 34 bowl games often aren’t such hot properties. Participating conferences and teams incurred $15.5 million in losses last year on unsold tickets alone. Some examples:

          • Ohio State was required to buy 17,500 tickets to the Fiesta Bowl last Jan. 5 but only sold 9,983, leading to a loss of $1 million for the Buckeyes and the Big Ten Conference.

          • Minnesota and the Big Ten bought the required 10,500 tickets for the Insight Bowl last year in Arizona. They only sold 1,512, absorbing a loss of $434,340.

          • Ball State and the Mid-American Conference bought 8,889 tickets to the GMAC Bowl in Alabama last Jan. 6 but sold only 1,431, absorbing $400,005.

          • Oklahoma State and the Big 12 bought 11,000 to the Holiday Bowl last year but couldn’t sell 5,438, absorbing $318,490.

          • Utah was required to buy 10,000 to the Poinsettia Bowl in 2007 (tickets at right) but sold only 2,361 and absorbed $267,365.
          "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

          "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
            This is the condemnation of the bowl system
            So essentially the schools are paying for these player gifts.

            Is this just a way to get around NCAA regulations on this type of thing?

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            • #7
              I suspect those gifts come from sponsors. It is pocket change.
              Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

              For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

              Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mormon Red Death View Post
                This is the condemnation of the bowl system
                Most Universities don't break even when they go to a bowl game even with the pay out.
                "Take it to the Bank"

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