Mavric Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Arkansas State, which will fill the Sept. 2 slot in NU's 2017 schedule, certainly received one to the play the Huskers. According to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Red Wolves will receive $1.65 million to travel to Nebraska for the game: Arkansas State isn't the only million-dollar fee Nebraska's shelling out. An Akron spokeswoman told the World-Herald Monday that Nebraska will pay the Zips $1.17 million to play in Lincoln in 2018. A South Alabama spokesman said Nebraska will pay the Jaguars $980,000 in 2016 and $1.2 million in 2019 to play twice in Lincoln. A call to Troy, which plays at NU in 2018, was not returned. Northern Illinois had not yet provided information. OWH Quote Link to comment
teachercd Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Any idea what a home game brings in for the bars/restaurants in Lincoln? Quote Link to comment
ColoradoHusk Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Any idea what a home game brings in for the bars/restaurants in Lincoln?I would guess that Husker home games are worth $10 million for the area hotels, restaurants, bars, and retail stores in Lincoln over that weekend. That would be an average of $100 spent for 100,000 people. Quote Link to comment
Eric the Red Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Any idea what a home game brings in for the bars/restaurants in Lincoln?I would guess that Husker home games are worth $10 million for the area hotels, restaurants, bars, and retail stores in Lincoln over that weekend. That would be an average of $100 spent for 100,000 people. I think it's the long term impact. As long as we keep winning regardless of who that's against, season tickets will continue to be sold. Univ will get their money back. Quote Link to comment
Vizsla1 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 The pay-out is pretty close to what the Liberty Bowl pays to play- and probably 5x the attendance and viewership Quote Link to comment
Scratchtown Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Gives recruits another weekend to visit. Quote Link to comment
Red Five Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 These schools probably hate the B1Gs move to 9 conference games. Limits a payday game for them. Quote Link to comment
ColoradoHusk Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 These schools probably hate the B1Gs move to 9 conference games. Limits a payday game for them. Yes, but if NU wants 7 home games a year, the years with only 4 conference home games, NU will need to have 3 home games, so they will still look to the smaller conference schools to fill 2 of those dates. Quote Link to comment
Red Five Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 These schools probably hate the B1Gs move to 9 conference games. Limits a payday game for them. Yes, but if NU wants 7 home games a year, the years with only 4 conference home games, NU will need to have 3 home games, so they will still look to the smaller conference schools to fill 2 of those dates. Huh? Currently there are years where we have 4 non-con home games (like 2013) and we pay 3 crap schools. Going forward many teams like NU are only going to be paying 2 crap teams instead of 3, thus reduced cash for the crap teams. Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Not playing 3 crap teams must start after 2019. Quote Link to comment
cg_8 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Didn't we pay $2m to Southern Miss to play the game at home in 2013? Quote Link to comment
cornographic Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Arkansas State, which will fill the Sept. 2 slot in NU's 2017 schedule, certainly received one to the play the Huskers. According to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Red Wolves will receive $1.65 million to travel to Nebraska for the game: Arkansas State isn't the only million-dollar fee Nebraska's shelling out. An Akron spokeswoman told the World-Herald Monday that Nebraska will pay the Zips $1.17 million to play in Lincoln in 2018. A South Alabama spokesman said Nebraska will pay the Jaguars $980,000 in 2016 and $1.2 million in 2019 to play twice in Lincoln. A call to Troy, which plays at NU in 2018, was not returned. Northern Illinois had not yet provided information. OWH That'll pay for alot of alternative uniforms...good for the Indonesian economy. Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted May 19, 2015 Author Share Posted May 19, 2015 Didn't we pay $2m to Southern Miss to play the game at home in 2013? Yeah, something like that. Was supposed to be down there but we paid them to move it. That number just happened to coincide with the buyout of the coach the fired. Quote Link to comment
darkhorse85 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Didn't we pay $2m to Southern Miss to play the game at home in 2013? Yeah, something like that. Was supposed to be down there but we paid them to move it. That number just happened to coincide with the buyout of the coach the fired. And we still came out way ahead on that deal. Having an 8th home game that year was just more money in the pocket. Quote Link to comment
cg_8 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Didn't we pay $2m to Southern Miss to play the game at home in 2013? Yeah, something like that. Was supposed to be down there but we paid them to move it. That number just happened to coincide with the buyout of the coach the fired. And we still came out way ahead on that deal. Having an 8th home game that year was just more money in the pocket. Mos Def. Ticket revenue alone is +/- $5million. Plus, I remember Tom Osborne saying something about concessions being somewhere around $500,000 per game in revenue. I don't know if that's true, or if I am even remembering correctly. That doesn't even include the revenue for the local economy, which could be somewhere around $5-10 million per game. The best part of it all though? I get to see the game in person... By far the best part... 1 Quote Link to comment
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