You're an athletic director...you sure you want to go to the BCS title game?

• SportsAndLady

  

  Very interesting read:
  
  http://Alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1353873
  

  Alabama spent more than $3.9 million on the bowl game in New Orleans for the Jan. 9 BCS National Championship Game against LSU. That cost was offset by a $1.925 million payout by the bowl to each of the participating schools for expenses.

• DeyDurkie5

  

  How does it cost that much to send your team to the BCS? If I'm a school that knows how to spend money, then yeah there is no doubt I'm going to a BCS Title game. The recruits, TV time, etc. that comes with it is great.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Here's the expense report...lol @ 1.5 million in "other" expenses
  
  http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/assets/pdf/TL24831411.PDF
• Sonofanump

  Hookers and blow.
• dwccrew

  

  I mean it is the SEC, so I am guessing each player got a gym bag full of money.
• OneBuckeye

  

  Roids and Payment for the players....
• OneBuckeye

  

  lol at the perdiem and meals for the "official party" (49 people) for 3 days being 137k and the band and cheerleaders (393 people) being 60k for 4 days.
• bigkahuna

  They spent more money in 1 day to travel the team and staff (336 people) then they spent on the band and cheerleaders (393) the whole 4 days they traveled.
  
  It came out to ~28,000/ day for the team and staff, while they spent a total of ~18,000 for the 4 day trip for band and staff.
  
  Funny stuff.
• sleeper

  

  Only in the SEC...
• Curly J

  

  Sonofanump;1142124 wrote:Hookers and blow.

  Roll Damn Tide !!!
• bigkahuna

  sleeper;1142474 wrote:Only in the SEC...

  Probably.
• swamisez

  

  Saban got 400K for playing in the national championship game, I am sure other coaches got bonuses as well. I imagine that was included in the cost sheet as performance bonuses.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  ccrunner609;1145402 wrote:someone should be fired for that.....but the football program there makes more then $80 million a year for that university.

  
  Than
• sportchampps

  Wouldn't it cost just as much for any bowl game as long as you took the same amount of people and stayed the same length of time. I would rather pay that for my team to make the bcd title game and get a ton of advertising for my school then pay that for the papa johns bowl team