Ohio State football gets one-year bowl ban; Tressel hit with 5-year "show cause"

Re: Ohio State football gets one-year bowl ban; Meyer hit with 5-year "show cause"

I hope Ohio State enjoys that Gator Bowl trip over a potential BCS game next season.

The real question is, if Ohio State does well and wins the Leaders in the regular season, will Buckeye fans burn down Columbus since they're banned for the B10 Championship Game?

 

Dammit! Fixed.

 

Re: Ohio State football gets one-year bowl ban; Meyer hit with 5-year "show cause"

Because the ADs and presidents are in on the swindle.
http://www.citypages.com/content/printVersion/2345289/

 

Actually, no. Certainly there's some anger / frustration, particularly with Gene Smith & the decision to not self impose a post season ban for this season. As AQB pointed out, though, there's no guarantee that the NCAA wouldn't have given them the ban for next season anyways.....and OSU fans are starting to "get" that.

After the initial wave of anger / frustration yesterday (in particular by the standard message board lunatic), most OSU folks have already calmed down. There seems to be a realization that while tough, the sanctions could have been MUCH worse. Couple that with the arrival of Meyer, a 2012 recruiting class that's looking much better than it did a month ago (and seems to be holding together, even after the sanctions), and the fact the ban will be over in time for the first 100% Meyer class to arrive in C-Bus...most folks seem to be pretty relieved that it's finally over. In fact, I'd say there's an overall positive, optimistic and excited feeling amongst the fan base. Just not about Gene Smith....

 

The payout for a second team from the same conference in a BCS bowl is in the neighborhood of $4 million. I'm not exactly sure but I believe in the Big Ten that would be split 13 ways; 1 share for each team, one share to the conference, and one share for Ohio State's expenses.
I think that's how the Pac-12 does it.

The other $14 million or so from that game is divided among the BCS AQ conferences that did not advance two teams to the BCS (somewhere in there there's a also a shazre for the five non-AQ BCS conferences). So there isn't really much a financial windfall for getting two teams to the BCS, especially if the second team can't sell all its tickets. The Microville Tech AD once told me it was in the neighborhood of an extra $200k or so.

 

How did Tressel get a show cause and Carroll didn't? Is that because he lied to investigators?

 

The email trail. Carroll maintains plausible deniability to this day.

 

Few play dumb as well as Carroll.

 

Bowl games write pretty sweet checks to the teams. If the teams choose to bring the entire band, cheerleaders, majorettes, redshirted players, injured players and official parties from the university president to the school janitorial department, that's their problem. They can't weep and moan about losing money when they bring 125 players and an equal number of university big-wigs for the week.

 

Bowls are like parties you get invited to, then learn there is a steep cover charge (but its waived if you bring 50 friends that will pay full price, you want music? bring your own, and do you want to eat? You'll have to buy it there as well (at inflated prices).

The bowls need the teams more than the teams need the bowls. It isn't the 70s anymore when the bowls were the one chance most teams had at playing to a national audience.
You wonder how much the bowls would change if schools demanded their team expenses were covered (food, transportation and lodging) as well as those of the band and cheerleaders since they are performing as well. Throw in a flat appearance fee that isn't dependent on ticket sales.

 

Most teams lose their asses financially on anything below a BCS-level bowl.

 

Conference rules vary, but generally the TV deals in each league require sharing. The SEC divides bowl receipts among 12 members, plus the SEC office. The sweet check doesn't go to the school. A home game is worth more revenue than a bowl in terms of direct payout to the school. The leagues divide up all the TV and bowl money at the end of the school year. That's when schools themselves get a sweet check.