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Post by KidHeartless on Mar 31, 2015 20:06:26 GMT -5
...this does make ya feel a bit better about the bowl..... still dont like the AQ situation....never will....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 21:16:11 GMT -5
...this does make ya feel a bit better about the bowl..... still dont like the AQ situation....never will.... Meh... We'll get over it especially if we can beat up on Grambling or Southern during the game and during Halftime.
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Post by Aggie One on Mar 31, 2015 21:41:30 GMT -5
Going through my notes from Monday night - This bowl is going to pay for two days of travel (including food and hotel) for the participating bands and cheerleaders - ESPN wants the halftime show.
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Post by KidHeartless on Mar 31, 2015 21:57:21 GMT -5
...this does make ya feel a bit better about the bowl..... still dont like the AQ situation....never will.... Meh... We'll get over it especially if we can beat up on Grambling or Southern during the game and during Halftime. Speak for yaself mayne!!!
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Post by KidHeartless on Mar 31, 2015 21:57:55 GMT -5
Going through my notes from Monday night - This bowl is going to pay for two days of travel (including food and hotel) for the participating bands and cheerleaders - ESPN wants the halftime show. Payday is getting thicker for the participants huh
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 31, 2015 22:09:38 GMT -5
Going through my notes from Monday night - This bowl is going to pay for two days of travel (including food and hotel) for the participating bands and cheerleaders - ESPN wants the halftime show. Now, that goes along with what I said was in the deal back on January 1st. ESPN was supposed to "pay for transportation and lodging" and at least one dinner (a banquet). Nothing that I've heard confirms that those items made it into the most-recent agreement. But that would be a significant game-changer (not a total or complete game-changer for me...but a significant one).
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Post by marchingband1969 on Apr 1, 2015 9:38:54 GMT -5
This is what was announced at tonight's AAF meeting about the Celebration Bowl: 1. Participating school gets 200,000 in complimentary tickets. 2. The remaining payout is 800,000 in cash. 3. The conference is still deciding whether the 800,000 will be split 80/20 or 70/30 between participating school and the conference. 4. Six year commitment. Just a question to ponder...If A&T goes as the MEAC representative, we would get $200,000 in complimentary tickets, right? The key word is "complimentary!" And the idea is all the money we make selling those tickets goes directly into our pockets! That said, let me just state that not one of those tickets will "not" be sold...even if we have to sell the last bunch of tickets at a discount or bogo (buy one get one free). I know this sounds dumb to suggest that we should try to sell every ticket at full face value but I wouldn't miss an opportunity to sell all the tickets no matter what. Here's a marketing idea, the first 500 fans that pre-order a ticket get a $2.00 reduction on the ticket. Or AAF members that donate over $500 annually get 25% off their second ticket purchased. Or active members of A&T Alumni Chapters get a 10% discount on the tickets. Or all Greensboro High School and Junior High School Students get a 10% discount on tickets. What I'm saying is it may be better to sell all the tickets and make some revenue money than to only sell a few tickets a full price. Also the more butts we can put in the Georgia Dome the greater the buzz will be for future games. And I expect the A&T football team to return for this game for the next 6 years or until ESPN pulls the plug on it! Think about it...10,000 to 15,000 A&T fans in the stands cheering for A&T.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Apr 1, 2015 10:01:37 GMT -5
This is what was announced at tonight's AAF meeting about the Celebration Bowl: 1. Participating school gets 200,000 in complimentary tickets. 2. The remaining payout is 800,000 in cash. 3. The conference is still deciding whether the 800,000 will be split 80/20 or 70/30 between participating school and the conference. 4. Six year commitment. Just a question to ponder...If A&T goes as the MEAC representative, we would get $200,000 in complimentary tickets, right? The key word is "complimentary!" And the idea is all the money we make selling those tickets goes directly into our pockets! That said, let me just state that not one of those tickets will "not" be sold...even if we have to sell the last bunch of tickets at a discount or bogo (buy one get one free). I know this sounds dumb to suggest that we should try to sell every ticket at full face value but I wouldn't miss an opportunity to sell all the tickets no matter what. Here's a marketing idea, the first 500 fans that pre-order a ticket get a $2.00 reduction on the ticket. Or AAF members that donate over $500 annually get 25% off their second ticket purchased. Or active members of A&T Alumni Chapters get a 10% discount on the tickets. Or all Greensboro High School and Junior High School Students get a 10% discount on tickets. What I'm saying is it may be better to sell all the tickets and make some revenue money than to only sell a few tickets a full price. Also the more butts we can put in the Georgia Dome the greater the buzz will be for future games. And I expect the A&T football team to return for this game for the next 6 years or until ESPN pulls the plug on it! Think about it...10,000 to 15,000 A&T fans in the stands cheering for A&T. how can you say all 200,000 tickets would be sold? what basis do you have for that opinion? our turnout at the atlanta classic wasn’t very good at all, both times we played scsu, scsu had more fans there than we did. last year the attendance was only 24k and again, scsu had more fans there than we did. personally, i don’t like the idea that you have to “sell tickets” in order to get paid. so in other words, the meac champion won’t get one single dime from espn. not a dime!! you get paid by your own fans, not espn. and, you have to “work” for it! meanwhile, the rest of the meac schools can sit home and do absolutely nothing, but yet they get a check from espn? ya’ll call that a good deal? wow...
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Post by Aggie Monster on Apr 1, 2015 10:12:57 GMT -5
Oleschool, the possible $200,000 isn't the only payout. The conference will decide how much of the remaining money goes to the participating school.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Apr 1, 2015 10:33:46 GMT -5
Oleschool, the possible $200,000 isn't the only payout. The conference will decide how much of the remaining money goes to the participating school. monster, quite frankly, i don't think anybody on this message board knows the "facts". folk are "speculating" like a mugg with no "documented" evidence of their speculations whatsoever. one minute its $200k in ticket sells for the participating schools, next minute its $800k cash up front. if i read what was stated at the aaf meeting correctly, i don't see a big paycheck at all. sounds to me that the participating schools have to "work" to earn their money, its not some kind of "freebie" from espn. until an "official announcement" comes out regarding the finances of this bowl, a brutha can't actually believe what's posted on the message boards...
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Post by aggierattler on Apr 1, 2015 10:48:56 GMT -5
Oleschool, the possible $200,000 isn't the only payout. The conference will decide how much of the remaining money goes to the participating school. Then it's very conceivable that the conference office could give the participating school the same amount (the same "share") as the non-participating schools receive, right? They could say, "You've already gotten a bigger payday because of the $200,000 worth of tickets you received directly from the bowl association earlier."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 11:02:52 GMT -5
Oleschool, the possible $200,000 isn't the only payout. The conference will decide how much of the remaining money goes to the participating school. Then it's very conceivable that the conference office could give the participating school the same amount (the same "share") as the non-participating schools receive, right? They could say, "You've already gotten a bigger payday because of the $200,000 worth of tickets you received directly from the bowl association earlier."What is fair would be to give the champion the majority of the cash. There is a current precedent here with the MEAC Tournament Champion getting the majority of the NCAA Tournament Shares they earned that same season. And if they did decide that A&T wouldn't pocket 70% - 80% of that $800,000, which would be used to pay for housing the band and football team on campus during the Winter Break, we need to leave this Conference ASAP!
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Post by saabman on Apr 1, 2015 11:29:22 GMT -5
Then it's very conceivable that the conference office could give the participating school the same amount (the same "share") as the non-participating schools receive, right? They could say, "You've already gotten a bigger payday because of the $200,000 worth of tickets you received directly from the bowl association earlier." What is fair would be to give the champion the majority of the cash. There is a current precedent here with the MEAC Tournament Champion getting the majority of the NCAA Tournament Shares they earned that same season. And if they did decide that A&T wouldn't pocket 70% - 80% of that $800,000, which would be used to pay for housing the band and football team on campus during the Winter Break, we need to leave this Conference ASAP! If I am not mistaken complimentary tickets should not affect the payout from the bowl. The funds from the selling of the tickets should go directly to the participating school. That is just extra icing on the cake. Complimentary ticket can be sold to anyone and is not limited to A&T fans or students. Hell you can offer those tickets to anyone in the Triad area or the state of North Carolina. Now the only problem I see is the MEAC conference heads taking more from the participating school that is representing the conference.
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Post by AggiePride on Apr 1, 2015 11:59:50 GMT -5
Any sense of the MEAC vote for this? I know FAMU voted against it, but who else did? Who was likely to vote against it?
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Post by aggierattler on Apr 1, 2015 13:15:02 GMT -5
Then it's very conceivable that the conference office could give the participating school the same amount (the same "share") as the non-participating schools receive, right? They could say, "You've already gotten a bigger payday because of the $200,000 worth of tickets you received directly from the bowl association earlier." What is fair would be to give the champion the majority of the cash. There is a current precedent here with the MEAC Tournament Champion getting the majority of the NCAA Tournament Shares they earned that same season. And if they did decide that A&T wouldn't pocket 70% - 80% of that $800,000, which would be used to pay for housing the band and football team on campus during the Winter Break, we need to leave this Conference ASAP! OK, two things here...1) Yeah...but to make that a fair comparison, you'd have to have the champion getting a large share from gate receipts of the MEAC Tournament. 2) Wasn't it said earlier in this forum that ESPN is going to pay for transportation and housing; that was something that was accidently overlooked in the observations from the AAF Meeting?
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