TUESDAY, NOV.20, 2001
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Agreement: Revenue-sharing offers unequal rewards
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money it collects from TV networks to conference schools based on each school's number of TV appearances in the form of television-appearance fees. Last year, the fees were $154,960 and $198,667 for each appearance on Fox and ABC, respectively.
Kansas
$23,134,100
$1,633,490
Alt+400
Total athletics budget Total television revenue Money for appearing on TV
About $400.000
The other half of the conference's TV money is distributed equally among all Big 12 universities. Those payments, known as participation fees, amounted to $1,241,667 to each school last year. A comparison of appearance fees garnered by Kansas and Texas shows the inequity. Texas had seven televised games last season compared with only two Kansas appearances on Fox or ABC. Texas' appearance-fee intake was slightly more than $2 million, while Kansas took in about one-fifth of that amount, less than $400,000.
The Big 8 had distributed a smaller percentage of its television money based on each team's number of televised conference games.
Texas
$43,952,196
$3,335,667
$2,094,000
Jeff Bollig was the director of the Big 8 Service Bureau. He now works for the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America headquarters in Lawrence.
He said the Big 8 had been more democratic than the Big 12 about splitting up ticket and TV money.
"How Big 12 revenue is distributed is not nearly as equal as the Big 8," he said.
Bollig said that when Big 8 schools divided television revenue, two teams playing in a conference game each received 20 percent of the revenue for that game, while dividing the remaining 60 percent amongst the remaining conference teams. So, whereas 40 percent of Big 8 money was kept by teams playing on television, 50 percent of TV money is kept by those competing before a television audience in the Big 12.
Other conferences split up money more equally
Around the country, other conferences, such as the Big 10 Conference, share TV money equally.
Brad Traviolia, associate commissioner of the Big 10, said Big 10 universities also shared 35 percent of ticket sales for conference games.
"The Big 10 has bought into equal revenue sharing in order to take out the variability each year," Traviolia said. "When conferences base revenue on appearance fees, it becomes a reward for teams who appear more."
Ed Goble, associate athletic director of business at the University of Texas, said TV revenue distribution should reward teams that put on good performances.
Texas' athletics budget will grow to more than $53 million dollars this year with an increase in TV appearances to eight, he said.
"Merit should be taken into account for actually being on TV. There has to be a benefit for being attractive," Goble said.
Tim Allen, associate director of the Big 12, said the advantage of allowing teams to keep their ticket revenue and be paid fees per television appearance was consistency in each university's budget from year to year. For example, in the Big 8, Kansas could count on additional money in years when the Jayhawks played Nebraska before a packed house in Lincoln, Neb., than when the two teams met in Lawrence, Allen said. Variations in schedules led to fluctuating annual budgets across the conference.
"Other conferences, such as the Big 10, share all revenue equally, but that is not the philosophy of the Big 12." Allen said.
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Attendance: May be sparse at best
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"The only way I'd go is if I get sick of my parents," said Doege, who predicted a crowd of a little more than 1,000. "I can't imagine any one other than the players' parents wanting to sit through that game."
With the game being played during Thanksgiving Break, all the scholarship halls and residence halls
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will be closed.
Interim coach Tom Hayes said the likelihood of a small crowd didn't concern him.
"I've got to prepare the team whether the stadium's totally full, half-full or whatever. We've got a job to do and that's what we're going to do." Hayes said.
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BALL STATE 93, No.4 KANSAS 91
BALL STATE (1-0)
Smith 7-15 4-7 19, Jones 1-30-2 22, Jackson 9-15 3-5 23, Williams 8-14 3-3 24, McCollom 1-6 2-2 17, Robbins 3-8 0-9 0, Owens 4-8 2-3 11, Bums 0-1 0-0 0, Totals 33-70 14-22 93. KANAS (0-1)
KANGAS
Gooden 12-21-7 13-31, Collison 7-10-1-2
15. Hinchnik 6-9-0-1-4, Miles 3-7-2-9,
Boschee 1-5-2-4, Langford 3-9-4-10,
Carey 2-4-2-4, Lee 1-2-0-02. *Totals* 35-67
18-7-91
Halftime—Ball State 55-48, 3-Point goals—Ball State 13-30 (Williams 5-10, Robbins 3-7, Jackson 2-3, Smith 1-2, Owens 1-3, McCollon 1-5), Kansas 3-9 (Hinick 2-5, Miles 1-1, Boschee 0-2, Langford 0-1). Fouled out—Smith, Nash, Rebounds—Ball State 35 (Smith, Jones 7), Kansas 43 (Gooden 10).
Assists—Ball State 16 (McCollom 6), Kansas 19 (Hinick 6). Total fouls—Ball State 23, Kansas 21. A——2,500.
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