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Originally Posted by Skipaway
I never heard people claiming that to be college football's big problem. Can you be more specific about why that's even an issue?
Currently the big problem is actually the way Bowl games are paying out to conferences rather than teams made teams losing money by going to Bowl games.
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I'm not sure how other conferences do it, but I know the MWC you don't lose money going to a bowl game because if you go to a bowl game the school gets $450,000 + Travel Expenses out of the bowl payment. Then any leftover is then distributed amongst the conference equally.
On the access problem. I wish I could find updated payouts for this year, but the latest I can find is 2000 through a quick google search. But part of the problem of equity is that you've got so much of the payout already guaranteed to the BCS conferences which helps keep the disparity between the BCS and non-BCS. When you have say the Big 12 with affiliations of the BCS (Payout around 14.5 mil), Cotton (Payout around 3 mil), Holiday (Payout around 2.5 mil) those 3 bowls alone total 20 mil and the Big 12 has 5 more bowls below that. In all let's say that the total payout is say 30 mil. That's a payout of 2.5 mil per team if everyone in the conference gets an equal split.
Meanwhile, the MWC has ties to the Las Vegas Bowl (Payout about 1 mil), Poinsettia Bowl (Payout 750k), and Emerald Bowl (Payout around 800k I think). Those 3 combine to a total guaranteed of 2.55 mil. Spread over 9 teams, that's 283,333 per team if spread evenly. Once you take travel expenses and such out, you're barely having anything split between the teams. Thus, there in lies part of the disparity battle.