Sixty-eight teams played in 34 bowl games this past season. And while all of the teams considered it an accomplishment to receive a bid, nabbing one isn’t as prestigious as it once was. Every college football fan knows this, but most Saturday couch potatoes accept that the money the schools receive make the end of December snoozers worthwhile. But what if the schools are losing money on these irrelevant games?

Rutgers who defeated North Carolina St. 29 to 23 in the PapaJohns.com Bowl returned home to New Jersey $184K in the hole.

Rutgers University collected $1.2 million for its trip to the PapaJohns.com Bowl last December. But by the time expenses were paid and the coaching staff given its performance bonuses, the school lost more than $184,000, according to reports filed with the NCAA.

While the football team’s expenses were more than covered through the Big East Conference — which pools playoff money — the university spent more than $200,000 to send faculty, staff and 187 members of the band and cheerleader squads to the game.

College football is a lucrative business, but will the weak economy force schools to pass on bowl bids? My gut says no, but in the short term I do think there will be cuts and penny pinching during the (possibly shortened) trips. One solution might be higher payouts for the participating teams.  The PapaJohns.com Bowl’s $300K payout was the lowest of the 34 bowls, even though it helped the city of Birmingham generate$10.6M of economic impact.

 

Yeah so what we’ve lost our first two games at home by a combined 49 points but so what?  Fuck you that’s what!  Look at this girl next to me.  What a hot number with perfect teeth which means S-T-D free.  When we went up 3-0 I grabbed a sweet handful of her right ass cheek when she jumped up to yell.  Between that and our field goal make I was one crotch adjustment away from a semi. Now I wish she would sit down and shut the fuck up, fuck her and her care free love of life.

I can’t believe 20 minutes ago I actually high-fived this douche to the right of me.  He’s wiping his nose now. Yeah way to make us all look like pussies.  No one wipes their nose at a football game. They blow snot rockets on people 5 rows down.  Fuck him.  I bet the first thing he does when he gets home for Thanksgiving is wait around for all of his “friends” that won’t call.  Tool.

The only way this night turns around for me is if I get with the blond behind me.  Yeah baby I noticed you are too cool to not wear a Rutgers shirt to the big game, but I bet you aren’t too good for doling out some sloppy Georgia Dome.  Are you looking at me give the finger to all of America?  You know if you keep checking me out of the corner of your eye its going to get stuck like that. That’s right I am bad ass: Liger < Me < Marine Corps.  I hope her teeth are as big and full nice as the rest of the package.  Actually I hope she doesn’t have any teeth at all.

Thank to the Wiz for the picture.