BleedGopher
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per Joe:
The Gophers have spent three weeks listening to people say 5-7 teams don’t belong in bowl games, that the bowl system is broken and this finally is the tipping point.
Leave that debate to someone else, the Gophers say. They are in Detroit to win a football game, hoping to end a seven-game bowl losing streak.
Win or lose, the school itself can keep a separate streak intact: its run of six-figure profits in bowl games.
A Star Tribune review of the University of Minnesota’s expenses on its past three bowls shows the program made money on each. So the Gophers are not only talking excitedly about this trip to play Central Michigan on Monday in the Quick Lane Bowl. They are doing it up again, their marching band in tow, with intentions of making another profit.
Last year, the Gophers spent more than $1.7 million — including $459,309 on transportation and meals for their band and cheerleaders, a group of 371 people — on their trip to Orlando for the Citrus Bowl. But those expenses were all covered, and then some, by the Big Ten, which acts as a colossal Santa Claus, showering its member schools in bowl money each holiday season.
http://www.startribune.com/bloated-bowl-season-a-bonus-for-gophers-bank-accounts/363566171/
Go Gophers!!
The Gophers have spent three weeks listening to people say 5-7 teams don’t belong in bowl games, that the bowl system is broken and this finally is the tipping point.
Leave that debate to someone else, the Gophers say. They are in Detroit to win a football game, hoping to end a seven-game bowl losing streak.
Win or lose, the school itself can keep a separate streak intact: its run of six-figure profits in bowl games.
A Star Tribune review of the University of Minnesota’s expenses on its past three bowls shows the program made money on each. So the Gophers are not only talking excitedly about this trip to play Central Michigan on Monday in the Quick Lane Bowl. They are doing it up again, their marching band in tow, with intentions of making another profit.
Last year, the Gophers spent more than $1.7 million — including $459,309 on transportation and meals for their band and cheerleaders, a group of 371 people — on their trip to Orlando for the Citrus Bowl. But those expenses were all covered, and then some, by the Big Ten, which acts as a colossal Santa Claus, showering its member schools in bowl money each holiday season.
http://www.startribune.com/bloated-bowl-season-a-bonus-for-gophers-bank-accounts/363566171/
Go Gophers!!
