Dumb bowl question

and this is why the crappy teams like vandy will never leave the major conferences. sometimes you look at football scores and wish a vandy would go away, drop to 1-AA or a mid-major conference. but it would lose millions of dollars a year.

 

Uh ... Temple? If they wanted, couldn't the SEC members just kick Vandy off the island?

 

Well it's not like Vandy's been a garuanteed W the last few seasons....They're definitely more cometitive that Temple. I thought the Owls went down to 1-AA of their own accord though.

 

My understanding was that the league voted Temple out for being "uncompetitive."

Certainly, that does not describe Vandy, which has been competitive ... just not overly successful.

 

In reality they voted Temple out for "not playing basketball in the Big East"

 

The Dumb Bowl ...

What teams would be in that?

 

The second team from a conference gets a half-share. The rest of that share is divided among the conferences that had only one BCS participant. So while 2-bid BCS conference teams do get more money, the actual difference in payout isn't anywhere near as substantial as most are led to believe.

 

If Hal Mumme spent less time blowing his boogers into a towel, they probably would win more game. That guys a poor man's June Jones and will never win. But I'm sure a few extra recruiting $$$ won't hurt.

 

Uh, Blitz, outside of football and basketball,and perhaps baseball in south and west, nonrevenue sports generate NO money.

 

I think that money actually goes into some sort of "escrow" account (for lack of the actual term that I can't remember), and if you finish your time clean you get it. At least that was the SEC rule for the last MSU violation.

 

sure they can. whether or not temple left voluntarily or was actually kicked out is a moot point when considering vanderbilt. conferences add and drop teams all the time. a group of schools can do whatever they want. there's no law that says you have to keep a shit-ass team in your conference. i'm guessing they like the academic reputation of vandy. i'm sure they've thought about whether vandy should stay or go and for whatever reasons the other schools have never made it an issue.