Down and dirty on BCS money distributions
There are some interesting quotes in this article about last year’s BCS distributions. College football really is about the student athlete, not the money, to all the top dogs in the BCS… and if you believe that, I have some high quality air to sell you for every penny you’ve got.
It’s really a question of value, says WAC Commissioner Karl Benson. When a Utah shocks an Alabama or a Boise State stuns an Oklahoma, doesn’t that demonstrate the value of those teams and conferences to the BCS? Shouldn’t the payout to the conferences like the WAC and the Mountain West that send teams to the BCS look like the payout to the big six conferences?
No, responds Harvey Perlman, chancellor at the University of Nebraska and chairman of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee. He says there’s a difference between playing well in a game and demonstrating the kind of value that drives long-term media contracts.
“Those teams have certainly performed well, but you’re talking about adding value,†Perlman said. “The real question is whether including those conferences when you negotiate a TV contract adds to the willingness of the network to increase the bid. I don’t think we’ve seen evidence that that’s true.â€