http://nola.com/sugarbowl/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/107314558084970.xml For teams in its games, the money paid by the BCS actually goes to the individual conferences, not the participating schools. LSU and Oklahoma will forward their Nokia Sugar Bowl paychecks to their respective conference offices, the SEC and Big 12. So the actual distribution of BCS money goes like this, according to LSU senior associate athletic director Dan Radakovich, whose job description includes doing the math on the payday, which he factors into the athletic budget each year. Radakovich, for the sake of clarity, said it is best to round off the individual 2003 BCS payouts to $14 million per team, although it could reach as much as $17 million per participant this year. LSU will receive $1.8 million up front for game expenses, including travel, lodging and event and game tickets. If LSU spends more, it comes out of the Tigers' athletic budget. That leaves $12.2 million for the conference members to divvy up. Each of the SEC's 12 member universities, as well as the conference, receives an equal share. That means $12.2 milliondivided by 13 equals $938,000.
Shouldn't that article say 11 member schools to divide the bowl money? I am almost positive that a school on post-season probation (Alabama) is not allowed to share in the bowl revenue.
and just think how Notre Dame use to benefit from those payments as the would get all of the dough for theirselves. Now they will not get a full payout anylonger, they will get the same amount that the smaller conferences get, I think about 4.5 million if they make it to a BCS bowl game. It used to be in the SEC that the teams that went to a bowl got to keep 1/2 of the bowl money and 1/2 half of the television revenues and then give the other 1/2 to the conference, they changed it when we added Pig U and the Chicks.
