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By this math, it might make sense to lower the price for the early playoff games that are less attended. As far as a semi final, that game is always nuts and sold out. I think by having more people, you will generate more parking, team makers raffle money, and the dome will earn more.
GROSS REVENUE (NCAA gets 75% / NDSU gets 25%)
12,557 x $40 average = $502,280 gross x .25 = 125K (if prices were lowered to $30 average, the NDSU portion drops to $94K)
15K x $40 average is 600 grand x .25 = 150 grand (if prices were lowered to $30 average, the NDSU portion drops to $112K)
18K x $40 average is 720K x .25 = 180 grand (if the prices were lowered to $30 average, the NDSU portion drops to $135K)
That doesn't include the TM Raffle, tailgating parking, and other revenue.
The Fargodome certainly profits and probably gets rent from the NCAA. They make money off of parking and food sales. It's kept them in the black a few slow years.
On top of that, it's a free exposure game on regular ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN+. More game day recruiting visits. Another week of practice and player development.
And as a super bonus, it's a boom to local hotels and restaurants, which really took it in the ass during covid.
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It’s it 75 percent of the net though, not the gross?
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So minus the charter flight, lodging, refs,, dome rent and dome labor. I think espn is part of the ncaa contract. Probably 10 grand lodging, 125k for a charter flight and who knows what the dome charges. Since the Bison pay 200k guarantees, let's just pull numbers out of the ass and assume expenses are about the same
Still even a crappy turnout like last week should earn 75k and 130-150k for a sellout
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The NCAA covers the travel expenses for the visiting team and I don't think they factor in any money from the TV contract in the books for these games since the FCS playoffs is one of 20+ championships included in that media deal (which does bring in $30M+ annually). I do think the host schools pay for the officiating crew and the NCAA reps travel expenses but that comes out revenue before the NCAA takes their 75% cut. It would be interesting to see what NDSU's expenses to host a playoff game are. I've heard that schools like NDSU who don't own their venue have significantly higher hosting expenses than those that do.