Payouts for I-A games

[Fordham]

what's an approx. $$ payout you should expect in order to play at a D1 school?

Low-end/mid-tier/big time?

[blueballs]

You mean 1-A, right?

If it is a BCS school expect a low of about $200-250 and a high of $500,000.

[DTSpider]

I remember hearing that Richmond would get around $450k to play UVA and NCState and around $300k to play Vanderbilt. I'd imagine Duke paying similar to Vanderbilt. Think that the Arkansas State payout was minimal, around $75k. All in all still very good money.

[DaGriz]

I think we had to pay Idaho to play us the last few years. :D

I think we get around $450K to play Oregon this year.

[Hansel]

I beleive UNI is getting 350K to play the Hawkeyes this year

[igo4uni]

I beleive UNI is getting 350K to play the Hawkeyes this year

All that money to take the short trip to Iowa City and to beat Iowa. :D :D :D

Realistically, though, I just hope no one gets hurt for UNI. Iowa will more than likely be a top 5 I-A team when we play them. It will be fun. Iowa City is a great place to catch a football game on a fall afternoon.

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[blackfordpu]

I wonder what Sam Houston is getting to play both Houston and Texas Tech. Anyone know?

[exbearkat]

I wonder what Sam Houston is getting to play both Houston and Texas Tech. Anyone know?We should get somewhere in the ballpark of 500k for the Tech game, as they will have 50k+ in attendance. UofH will be a much less payout.

[JBB]

If your a good draw for the DI-A team you get more? If thats true I think NDSU will do well in Minneapolis.

[SoCon48]

App at LSU $400K
App at Kansas $300K

Plus two losses on the record.

App at Hawaii, all the pineapple you can eat.
App at Wyoming, 75 Greyhound tickets and unlimited buffalo chips.

[TexasTerror]

One guy on the Bearkat Sports Forum announced SHSU will be playing SMU in Dallas in 2006. Bet that payout will be low. Maybe we'll get good turnouts from Bearkat alums in Dallas.

[leatherneck177]

When WIU played at LSU in 2003 they got around $400-425,000. When we played at Nebraska in 2004 I heard it was around $300,000.

[exbearkat]

If your a good draw for the DI-A team you get more? If thats true I think NDSU will do well in Minneapolis.Yes, from my understanding, the visiting school receives a portion of either concessions or total ticket sales (or potentially both), but I'm not sure on any of the specifics. Bottom line though, is that the better the attendance, the greater the payout.

[arkstfan]

From what I've seen in the current market you should expect $80,000 to $125,000 for a game against a Sun Belt, MAC, WAC, CUSA, or MWC school.

For a game against the Big Six expect $125,000 to $400,000 with a few games topping that when an AD has a ton of money and needs a game locked down.

[Hansel]

From what I've seen in the current market you should expect $80,000 to $125,000 for a game against a Sun Belt, MAC, WAC, CUSA, or MWC school.

That ain't much- NDSU paid Ark-Monticello (D2) a 58k guarantee this year. I wonder what Mont/Delaware pay for one-game guarantees (not for breaking contracts) to I-AA's

[GoGuins]

YSU will get 250k to play at Pitt this year and rumored to get between 400-500k for playing Ohio St in 2006.

[arkstfan]

The lower payout games are usually bus trips so that keeps costs down. I think Richmond and Southern Utah are the only I-AA Arkansas State has played that didn't bus in (at least I assume they didn't bus) and SUU in the past has had real hassles filling a schedule.

I would hope for the sake of the Boll Weevils that UAM flew. When we played Central Arkansas we paid them $30,000 the first time and $38,000 the second. I've heard that if UCA makes the I-AA move that ASU and UCA have already been talking about guarantees in the $85,000 to $100,000 range.

[galojay]

WKU has always typically gotten around $400k to play Wisconsin, Kansas State, or Auburn.

[Husky Alum]

It was published that Maine was getting about $375K from Nebraska.

NU got $150K from Ohio U when we played them recently and Navy gave us something similar last season (from what I'm told). Sometimes the lower level teams in addition to cash give the visitors hotel rooms/meals, etc. so the actual "compensation" is higher.

[Hansel]

The lower payout games are usually bus trips so that keeps costs down. I think Richmond and Southern Utah are the only I-AA Arkansas State has played that didn't bus in (at least I assume they didn't bus) and SUU in the past has had real hassles filling a schedule.

I would hope for the sake of the Boll Weevils that UAM flew. When we played Central Arkansas we paid them $30,000 the first time and $38,000 the second. I've heard that if UCA makes the I-AA move that ASU and UCA have already been talking about guarantees in the $85,000 to $100,000 range.

Yeah, the weevils are flying, our AD said in the article that he normally doesn't pay that much for a DII, but paid more since they will be flying (I think the normal payout was 30k plus busing when we were D2, don't know the normal payout now)

[McTailGator]

what's an approx. $$ payout you should expect in order to play at a D1 school?

Low-end/mid-tier/big time?

You should judge that by how well their games are attended. and how much money your team makes at the gate. We're all different.

It's routine for a typical SEC school to pay $450,000 to $500,000 because their attendance is in the 70,000 to 104,000 range and tickets average around $40 or so.

The Big 12 varies. McNeese Got $450,000 at Nebraska, $350,000 at Texas A&M, and $250,000 at K-State. Their attendance steps down just like their pay days. Nebraska has like 77,000 their, A&M had 68K, and K-State had like 49K.

Over in the East, Miami also average around 45,000 and their payday was the same as K-State's.


Where McNeese has trouble is getting playing dates with the non-BCS's like the SunBelt, where their average attendance isn't as good as McNeese, and their fore can;t pay us enough to make it worth our while.

For instance, McNeese sells and aproximately 7,000 season tickets at an average cost of $16 each. That's $112,000 a game, BEFORE we sell any other seats at all. Those "Other" seats would normally average around $14 each and we typically sell about an other 4,500 of those on game week. That's another $63,000 per game. Throw in another 48,000 or so for parking and tailgating revenue and we gross around $223,000 from each home game, not including concessions, which normally pays our game day expenses anyway.

Most non-BCS teams can't even come close to that kind of revenue much less give us any of it.

McNeese did play at and beat UL-Monroe in 2002. They gave us a 110,000 check for it. That same year we already played Nebraska with a 450,000 payday so we could afford to take the small payday that year. 110K is about what we would clear in 2 years if we did a home and home with them anyway.

[kats89]

Nothing like going to the UH's, SMU's, La-Monroe's, etc... of the world and kicking their butts and getting paid for it. :D