Comments on: SEC Headlines – 6/27/12

By: DanHogan

DanHogan — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:59:51 +0000

@John at MrSEC
I’m not sure I like the idea of a bowl (or a bowl like entity) rotating sites from year to year. I’d rather it look and feel like the other bowls at one site for an extended period of time. I’d *really* like the conferences to muscle their way into the Sugar and take a more active role. Maybe that will pave the way for other conferences to do the same with other bowls. And it would prevent further bowl creep seeing that we can’t even supply all of the existing bowls with winning teams.

By: John at MrSEC

John at MrSEC — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:22:58 +0000

@DanHogan

There’s a lot to still work out, but the “Champions” Bowl — wonder if they’ll just stick with that name since everyone’s using it? — is expected to be one of the six bowls in the semifinal rotation.

That game was supposed to be bid out each year which would mean big bucks for the Big 12 and SEC. But if it’s rolled into the BCS bowls, will those leagues keep that cash and still be able to bid that game out in semifinal years? Will they have to put the cash back into the BCS pool? Will they keep all the cash in years when the game’s not a semifinal and split it when it is a semifinal?

At this point, who knows? It’s such a unique entity — it’s never been tried before — and now it’ll have to be worked into another new entity — that’s also never been tried before. The revenue issues will be very interesting.

Thanks for reading,
John

By: DanHogan

DanHogan — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:53:54 +0000

Is there any news on how the ‘Champions Bowl’ will work? Is there any chance at all that it just becomes the Sugar Bowl?