College Football Week 3: The only real barbecue is whole Hog

I read somewhere that Idaho received $950,000 $925,000 to serve as tackling dummies for LSU on Saturday.

Now you know why the Vandals want to be one of the worst FBS teams rather than drop down to FCS.


EDIT: Looked it up, and it was $925,000, according to the Spokane Spokesman-Review. I guess that's one less volleyball scholarship ...

 

Hell, if the Vandals got that - they won. I don't begrudge teams taking paycheck games, what surprises me though is how little some will settle for. If you don't get $500k for playing a top 25 team on the road, your AD sucks. Figure most stadiums are 50,000, avg. ticket prices are $50 (low end), that's a gate of at least $2.5 mil.

 

This was the great hilarity of when Alabama labeled Boise State a bunch of chicken-shits for not wanting to come and play unless they got $1 million.

Boise State was only asking for the same amount Alabama pays every doormat they bring in.

 

Nothing wrong for asking for the same amount everybody else gets, plus Boise State isn't exactly Southeast Louisiana.

 

How does what LSU allegedly paid a team prove that Alabama pays that much?

And why does Boise deserve more than Southern Miss or pre-Big 12 TCU?

 

I didn't say a thing about LSU.

I also didn't say a thing about Southern Miss or TCU, though I'm gathering maybe they accepted less of a payout to visit Alabama? Maybe that's what you're getting at.

What I am saying is Alabama was more than happy to pay San Jose State $1 million in 2010, but when Boise said it would come there for the same $1 million, Alabama used that as a dodge not to play and to put the blame on Boise.

 

Thought you were referencing the post above about what LSU paid Idaho.

 

I wouldn't pay Boise a damn thing to come play me. If they want to be a big boy program, they can come on their own dime and be a big boy program.

 

What's the incentive when Bama won't return the favor by going to Boise? Isn't that what big boy programs do, play home and home?

 

Well, uhm, they could...I don't know...have a chance to beat the best team in the country?

 

Yes, they would, but it's not like Boise State is some FCS team here or even a Sun Belt-level FBS team. They're one of the few teams outside of the AQ conferences (except for the Big East) that would be worthy of a return game.

 

I might play them at home and neutral, but I wouldn't play on blue turf if I'm Alabama. The Tahd is above that mediocre publicity stuff.