Hawaii feels the pinch when it comes to travel

aeroclone · 07-14-2008, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by ISUboi12

Also, I wasn't speaking about payouts due to bowls. I was talking about fanbase donations. If ISU won every game on their schedule this year, but were snubbed from the title game, I am sure a couple of fans would see ISU athletics, particularly football as a broken investment.

I have to agree here. While the direct payout from the bowl may not be different, there are other indirect revenues that I would imagine are much higher for a NC game than another BCS game.

Bader · 07-14-2008, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by ISUboi12

Also, I wasn't speaking about payouts due to bowls. I was talking about fanbase donations. If ISU won every game on their schedule this year, but were snubbed from the title game, I am sure a couple of fans would see ISU athletics, particularly football as a broken investment.

Bull. If ISU (or any school) were to go undefeated in a season there is no way you would see donations go down if we happened to be snubbed from the title game.

I somehow don't think that UCLA's alumni have been paying less money since Ben Howland can "only" get them to the Final 4 the last four years. I'm pretty sure they see everything is there and will continue to pump money into the program

EDIT: Ah, I see you said some, which I could believe, but there's no way overall donations would go down

jdoggivjc · 07-16-2008, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by ISUboi12

Show me the list of 'better' teams just dying to put Hawaii on their schedule and I will buy into that explanation. They obviously can't do anything about their conference.

Also, I wasn't speaking about payouts due to bowls. I was talking about fanbase donations. If ISU won every game on their schedule this year, but were snubbed from the title game, I am sure a couple of fans would see ISU athletics, particularly football as a broken investment.

I think ISU would have very little right in complaining, especially if teams like Ohio St, Georgia, Florida, Virginia Tech, or USC finished undefeated as well. Those schools are starting in the top 25. We're not even on the radar right now. Awful hard to jump that many schools.

alaskaguy · 07-16-2008, 08:49 PM

High school athletic teams at least in Alaska have also got to feel the impact from the rising cost of travel. Every road trip for communities in off-road Alaska are air transportation. Some of the road trips were as far as 1,100 miles (and again we're talking high school).