time for the FCS to stop selling its self short

[grizzpaw]

i was wondering how others felt about setting a minimum price for ALL FBS gamesxnodx? i feel that the FCS is selling itself too cheap for most of the teams in the FBSxnonono2x. is it good or bad for the FCS as a whole to set a price to play ANY FBS teamsxeekx?

[89Hen]

i was wondering how others felt about setting a minimum price for ALL FBS gamesxnodx? i feel that the FCS is selling itself too cheap for most of the teams in the FBSxnonono2x. is it good or bad for the FCS as a whole to set a price to play ANY FBS teamsxeekx?
Bad. There's no set price for BCS to play SunBelt. You get what you can and what you need.

[Dane96]

i was wondering how others felt about setting a minimum price for ALL FBS gamesxnodx? i feel that the FCS is selling itself too cheap for most of the teams in the FBSxnonono2x. is it good or bad for the FCS as a whole to set a price to play ANY FBS teamsxeekx?

All the leverage is with FBS schools-- you take the price they give or you dont show at all.

[BEAR]

I think the biggest price setter for FCS is the other FCS schools. If your school doesn't take the $250k, I'm sure another one will. If they all stopped taking the $, then I can imagine boosters would be mad. If UCA didn't take an all expense paid trip with a $150k paycheck to Hawaii, that would have been horrible for them. I can imagine it cost Hawaii about nearly $500k to send 90 Bears to play them just to get a W.

90 people @ $4500 per (roundtrip flight, hotel on wakiki beach and all food etc.)
$150k paycheck for coming.

That's a good paycheck for paying all other expenses.

So my question is: Are you including the FBS schools having to pay all the other expenses?xeyebrowx

[grizzpaw]

i'm not saying to set it so high that they don't want to play an FCS team but the big 6 (BCS) can! i was reading that the avg asking price for a FBS vs FBS was going to 1 million starting next year so asking a minium of say $450,000 would be a bargain for BCS teams! maybe set it like " BCS" teams pay this amount and the rest of the FBS pays a lower amount!

[Big Al]

It all depends. UNI got less to play the Hawks this year than vs. BYU last year but Iowa City is a 90 minute bus ride from Cedar Falls.

[Polywog]

Portland State got $300K to visit Oregon State this year. It's less than 1 1/2 hours away by bus, and that $300K will cover ALL of PSU's travel expenses for the year. It would be pretty hard to pass that up to try and leverage an even bigger check.

[aust42]

Sheet, Navy got a million to play Ohio State this past Saturday.