Article: Bowl fact vs. fallacy
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Article: Bowl fact vs. fallacy
Florida Atlantic agreed to forego cash and accept as compensation some 16,000 tickets, the majority of which will go unsold – for the right to spend the holidays in Detroit. Merry Christmas, Owl fans! Your team will be playing Central Michigan on Dec. 26 at Ford Field and your school will be scrambling to stay out of debt.
If you thought Florida Atlantic’s deal with the Motor City Bowl was crazy, wait until you hear this: Angelos said he thinks the trip to Detroit could move a step closer to “the big payday.”
By that, he means a spot in a BCS bowl.
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Lm77 said
Bowl fact vs. fallacy - College Football - Rivals.comFlorida Atlantic agreed to forego cash and accept as compensation some 16,000 tickets, the majority of which will go unsold – for the right to spend the holidays in Detroit. Merry Christmas, Owl fans! Your team will be playing Central Michigan on Dec. 26 at Ford Field and your school will be scrambling to stay out of debt.If you thought Florida Atlantic’s deal with the Motor City Bowl was crazy, wait until you hear this: Angelos said he thinks the trip to Detroit could move a step closer to “the big payday.”
By that, he means a spot in a BCS bowl.
The 3+ Hours coverage of a bowl game is VERY worth it. Sucks we wont make any coingage but thats the price you pay. ALL the confrences will be scrambling in 2010 and lots of ups and downs will be happening. By going to back to back bowls and continueing to improve, we are placing our selves ahead of others as far as name recognition.
That will be invaluable.
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The more negative comments that come out the more it's going to help us show the rest of the world that we are for real and we will continue to grow despite the naysayers
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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If I'm reading it like that…. I doubt that's the way it went down.
It was probably like… MCB: "listen Sun Belt. We're going to lose money by bringing you here if you don't sell 16,000 tickets. So like a good roommate… you'll pay half of everything. You keep what you sell."
Am I reading this wrong or did my oversimplified and trivial example make sense?
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Interesting read, and guess what MORE exposure. FAU mentioned alot, pictures of Howard.
Cant buy this publicity, (oh wait you can, it was 16,666 tickets) ;D
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FAU - We got Bowls!
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Read the entire article. It's actually pretty good and the whole thing is basically about FAU and what we talk about on here
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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Jab979 said
“I look at it that we’re paying our dues to move this program forward,” Angelos said. “And if we have to foot some of the (bowl) costs, that’s the way we’ll do it.”
Read the entire article. It's actually pretty good and the whole thing is basically about FAU and what we talk about on here
I 100% agree with paying for the exposure, but it means nothing if the stadium doesn't get built for 2010. Without the stadium none of this matters, without the stadium this program has no future.
Sorry to be negative but the truth is no stadium = no good recruits = fewer wins = fewer fans = less money = worse recruits and so on and so on.
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Go Owls!!!!!!!!!!
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