The NCAA's take from NDSU's playoff games...

[NDSUstudent]

Thought this was interesting...This is from 2011-2014...

In the last three years, NDSU has had nine home playoff games. NDSU receives 15 percent of the net revenue from these games while the NCAA takes the rest. From these games, NDSU walked away with a combined $482,736.

So the NCAA's take from those playoff games was over $2.72 million. Amazing how much NDSU is subsidizing the FCS playoffs...Honestly I think it is a complete joke that the NCAA is taking that much.

http://kfgo.com/blogs/the-pinto-and-...icate-balance/

[Mr Meaty]

Thought this was interesting...This is from 2011-2014...



So the NCAA's take from those playoff games was over $2.72 million. Amazing how much NDSU is subsidizing the FCS playoffs...Honestly I think it is a complete joke that the NCAA is taking that much.

http://kfgo.com/blogs/the-pinto-and-...icate-balance/

That is why it is important for the NCAA to keep giving us the 1st of 2nd seed in the playoffs to pay for everyone else to play in them. purple.
We earn our seed every year.

[CentennialBison]

Expect to see the other school fans especially one unnamed one to come up with conspiracy theories to justify our rankings..

[HerdBot]

160 per year in profits beats a lower tier bowl game that you will lose money on.

As an added bonus, 6 of them were televised nationally.

Sounds like a great deal for us.

[NDSUstudent]

That is why it is important for the NCAA to keep giving us the 1st of 2nd seed in the playoffs to pay for everyone else to play in them. purple.
We earn our seed every year.

We obviously have earned everything we have gotten. Just seeing that number kind of shocked me and I didn't even get into NDSU fans packing Frisco.

$2.72 million would pay for a lot of charter flights. If Montana ever got back into form the NCAA could be making bank if NDSU and the Griz were 1 and 2 seeds.

[NDSUstudent]

160 per year in profits beats a lower tier bowl game that you will lose money on.

As an added bonus, 6 of them were televised nationally.

Sounds like a great deal for us.

I don't think it is a great deal at all, especially when you take into how regionalization has bit NDSU at times. Great deal for the NCAA though.

[Wally]

Need
Cash
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[bisonaudit]

Expect to see the other school fans especially one unnamed one to come up with conspiracy theories to justify our rankings..

As far as I'm concerned the NCAA owes us a few from the DII days.

[Tatanka]

As far as I'm concerned the NCAA owes us a few from the DII days.

[tony]

I don't think it is a great deal at all, especially when you take into how regionalization has bit NDSU at times. Great deal for the NCAA though.

OTOH, the NCAA also pays for playoff teams to travel, and some years their cut probably doesn't cover those costs.

True, NDSU has probably been picking up a lot of that travel tab the last four years, but the NCAA did pay our travel costs to go to Montana State, Eastern Washington and Frisco x 4. That probably closes the gap by $1.2 million or more.

I suppose a different model would be to have FCS football schools each pay 1/130th of the costs of running the playoffs.