Costs or playing in the Big Dance?

[Deeringfish]

Do teams make money if they get in? or play more games? Who pays all the expenses for the extra games?

Basically, I'm curious where all the money comes from and goes. It's a lot of money.

 

[Alan Smithee]

Do teams make money if they get in? or play more games? Who pays all the expenses for the extra games?

Basically, I'm curious where all the money comes from and goes. It's a lot of money.

I asked a similar question and gradeck provided a helpful answer:

The NCAA pays travel, lodging and per diem for the traveling party of team, staff, cheerleaders and band. By bus if <350 miles from school to regional site and by air if >350 miles.

 

[TheC]

Do teams make money if they get in? or play more games? Who pays all the expenses for the extra games?

Basically, I'm curious where all the money comes from and goes. It's a lot of money.

Based on how many times we had to watch Charles Barkley, Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson try to be funny, I'm guessing Capital One pays for everything.

 

[Alan Smithee]

A snack hoodie would've come in handy at the end of that Vanderbilt game, though. I nearly gnawed off a finger before the final buzzer.

 

[FloridAlum]

Based on how many times we had to watch Charles Barkley, Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson try to be funny, I'm guessing Capital One pays for everything.

I absolutely refuse to watch those commercials. The DVR might be the best invention since the wheel. I record every game so I can fast-forward through all that crap.

 

[FeliSilvestris]

The NCAA pays travel, lodging and per diem for the traveling party of team, staff, cheerleaders and band. By bus if <350 miles from school to regional site and by air if >350 miles.

Right. And then they distribute millions to the conferences. They use a formula that counts all games a conference has been in over the past "N" tournaments (I think N=6, so NU's 2 games will be counted in the B1G total multiple times, this year, next, etc). Obviously, each victory means and extra game, so those conferences that win more, play more, and in the end get more money. The conferences then distribute the money following their own rules. With google, you'll find articles giving greater detail on this, if you need it.

 

[gocatsgo2003]

Based on how many times we had to watch Charles Barkley, Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson try to be funny, I'm guessing Capital One pays for everything.

While I normally agree with you, "steaks on a plane" makes me laugh embarrassingly hard.

 

[TheC]

While I normally agree with you, "steaks on a plane" makes me laugh embarrassingly hard.

I don't dislike any of those three, but after the one-millionth viewing over the weekend, I began to go crazy.

 

[docrugby1]

I absolutely refuse to watch those commercials. The DVR might be the best invention since the wheel. I record every game so I can fast-forward through all that crap.

C'mon "Steaks on a plane" !!

 

[mikewebb68]

For FloridAlum's benefit:

 

[TheC]

For FloridAlum's benefit:

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Or, he can wait until Thursday when the games are back on again and this ad will be played 4 times per hour.

 

[FloridAlum]

Or, he can wait until Thursday when the games are back on again and this ad will be played 4 times per hour.

I guarantee to fast forward through every single stinking capital one commercial.

 

[Noah121]

Turrible, turrible, turrible. Crazy knuckleheaded turrible.

Regarding the commercials.