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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VOL.102,NO.69
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Bowl games mean more than fame and a vacation
Schools profit from bowl bids
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan staff writer
Today, post-season college football bowl games mean more than national exposure and a trip for fans and players to some place like Florida, California or Hawaii. To many teams and conferences, it means big payoffs and more money.
The $750,000 that Kansas will receive for going to the Aloha Bowl may sound big, but it is not when compared to other bowls. The money might pay only for the cost to send the team, coaches, cheerleaders and band members to Honolulu, said John Hall, asistant athletic director.
es. The Athletic Department may run into additional costs if the almost 8,000 tickets given to Kansas by the bowl's organizers are not sold. It will cost at least $482,000 to send the Jawahres to Hawaii.
The department will net at most $268,000 for Kansas' participation, according to Hadi's estimates. In fact, Kansas also will receive money from the Big Eight Conference's participation in the Orange Bowl. Each Big Eight school will get about $550,000 when the conference champion, either Nebraska or Colorado, plays in the Orange Bowl.
There is speculation that Colorado may go to the Fiesta Bowl. If Colorado does, the payoff is $3 million per team. Colorado would deduct team expenses from that amount and turn the rest over to the conference which would divide the remaining money equally
Nebraska spent about $1 million just on travel expenses for the Orange Ball last year, said Gary Fourier, assistant athletic director for business affairs at Nebraska.
none of the other Big Eight schools will profit from from one team going to Hawaii because of the lower payoff.
Fouraker said the Orange Bowl was one of the more expensive bowls because of its national prominence. The bigger the bowl, the more university officials and VIPs a team needs to bring, he said. For example, the entire Nebraska football band, which has about 200 members, attended the Orange Bowl, but Kansas is paying only for a smaller pep band of about 30 Marching Jayhawks.
The trip to Honolulu is not about money, Hadl said.
"It's really for the players, coaches and fans." he said. "It's for the people who made
New Orleans awaits games
City's Final Four third in 10 years
By Christoph Fuhrmans Special to the Kansan
This spring in New Orleans about 65,000 people will gather together in a celebration that will focus on a Big Dance.
Contrary to popular belief, this Big Dance is the Final Four, not Mardi Gras.
Yet for some people, namely Kansas basketball fans, this will be even better. With four returning starters and a No. 2 preseason ranking in the nation, Kansas fans hope the 'Hawks will return to the Final Four for the fourth time in eight years.
Kansas fans aren't the only ones looking forward to the Big Dance. New Orleans also eagerly awaits the weekend of April 3, when thousands of fans, media personnel, players and, most importantly, money, will pour into the city.
No Jayhawk fan can forget the last time Kansas played in New Orleans in an infamous loss to Wichita State, 66-65, in the 1981 NCAA regional semifinal.
New Orleans has been waiting for the 1992-93 NCAA basketball season to begin since the summer of 1988, when it first learned it beat out Seattle for the right to play host to this year's Final Four.
New Orleans won Final Four rights by fulfilling a variety of requirements from the ability to arrange hotel accommodations for the vast amount of people to having a large enough seating capacity in the Superdome.
Mervin Trail, president of the New Orleans Sports Foundation and co-chairperson of the local organization committee that was responsible for bringing the Final Four to New Orleans, and other committee members made sure that New Orleans would meet the requirements.
These tickets are part of an allotment that each university that fields a team in the tournament receives.
The committee comprises local business professionals who work on the committee on a voluntary basis, said Trail, who is a head and neck surgeon.
The fact that New Orleans successfully played host to the Final Four in 1982 and again in 1987 did not hurt the city's chances. Neither did the fact that New Orleans has held the Final Four three times in the past 10 years.
"After presenting our bid, it was up to the venerable wisdom of the NCAA." Trail said.
During April there won't be a hotter ticket in town than one to the Final Four, and there are only two legal ways of getting tickets.
First, students can fill out a ballot and play their luck with the lottery system that the University uses.
If successful, students will receive their tickets by June or mid-duly. If not, students will receive a full refund. In both instances the tickets will cost $30, $45 or $65, depending on the location of the seat.
MORE EASY. More eager students can apply for tickets a year in advance, from March 1 to April 31, for the following year's Final Four. Again, students fill out a ballot and send it along with money.
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