What Huskers Pay for Teams to Play in Memorial

Mavric

Mavric

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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.
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teachercd said:
Any idea what a home game brings in for the bars/restaurants in Lincoln?
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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.
 
ColoradoHusk said:
teachercd said:
Any idea what a home game brings in for the bars/restaurants in Lincoln?
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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.
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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.

 
The pay-out is pretty close to what the Liberty Bowl pays to play- and probably 5x the attendance and viewership

 
These schools probably hate the B1Gs move to 9 conference games. Limits a payday game for them.

 
Red Five said:
These schools probably hate the B1Gs move to 9 conference games. Limits a payday game for them.
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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.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
Red Five said:
These schools probably hate the B1Gs move to 9 conference games. Limits a payday game for them.
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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.
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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.

 
Mavric said:
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.
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That'll pay for alot of alternative uniforms...good for the Indonesian economy.

 
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cg_8 said:
Didn't we pay $2m to Southern Miss to play the game at home in 2013?
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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.

 
darkhorse85 said:
Mavric said:
cg_8 said:
Didn't we pay $2m to Southern Miss to play the game at home in 2013?
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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.
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And we still came out way ahead on that deal. Having an 8th home game that year was just more money in the pocket.
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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...

 
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