Thursday, March 3, 2011

How The Odds Work In Proline

: hangover after the Fiesta.


BCS advocates like to talk about the tradition associated with each of these Bowls. But we know very well that the real reason that drives the 6 major conferences not to implement the playoffs is foremost in the portfolio.

Do not share the cake with other universities in the first division, even if the cake of the playoffs would certainly bigger than the current one is crucial for them. That is why for those who dream of seeing the BCS fall, the misadventures of UConn following the Fiesta Bowl this year are good news. If, because of lack of interest some BCS Bowls meet, you start talking about losses and gains, it's a safe bet that the opinion, tradition or not, will soon change in some members of the 6 major conferences.

It has indeed to learn that overall, the University of Connecticut has lost almost $ 2 million because of its presence at the Fiesta Bowl. A Bowl yet distributes 17 million dollars to two guests! The reason for these losses? * The Big East
replied gains on Bowls between all its members and from U Conn was 2.5 million.
* Expenses related to moving the team, staff, the cheers, the band were 1.14 million. Logically
UConn would have benefited from a gain of 1.35 million but ... UConn had to pay almost $ 3 million at the Fiesta Bowl tickets unsold to his fans. In fact of the 17,500 tickets that U Conn has received for his fans, but she has sold only 2771! This is what happens when the BCS tries to sell us as "major bowl" game between the No. 5 Oklahoma and a team not even ranked in the top 25 and finished the season with a mediocre record of 8-5.

UConn can not even blame his own fans who were likely to move into Arizona but that the vast majority bought their tickets at bargain prices on sites like Stubhub resale rather than to provide cheap "official" to the University. As you can see in the picture above, the stadium was also not filled at kickoff of this game, even if the organizers all the tickets have been sold ... at the expense of the guests! The Huskies, who have increasingly been rolled 48-20 by the Sooners, retain bitter memories of what was technically the biggest game in the history of the university.

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