Teel Time: ACC commissioner John Swofford on player safety, bowl revenue

Good news on the bowl distribution 'tweak'....of course, who knows what that tweak is, but at least it is admitting it is a problem.  I just hope we stop seeing successful football teams losing money.  It sends a very loud message to the conference.  Perhaps this new tweak has full addressed this.  We will soon find out.

The bowl revenue gap per team per year is approx. $1 Million against the other Power 5 and David Teel did his very best to excuse it away.  It is a loss for the ACC and for Swofford.  Teels mindset is reflective of the ACC overall which is just a real loser mentality.  Just happy to be here.  It screams 'Big East.' 

The ACC should expect better and it should clearly see this was a case of Swofford asleep at the wheel.  Stop making excuses for him ACC. 

I fear the day we have similar comments when an ACC Network proves to not provide major revenue like the other Power 5 see.



Teel Time: ACC commissioner John Swofford on player safety, bowl revenue


"The remainder of my interview with Swofford focused on postseason football revenue and bowl pairings. At the 2013 Kickoff, Swofford said he expected the conference to adjust its bowl distributions to ease the ticket and travel expenses that often burdened participating schools, so I asked if that had indeed occurred.
“We have tweaked it, both for our championship game and for bowls,” he said. “And we’ve adjusted the ticket allotment, too. So all of that has been (changed) since last year, to the benefit of the participating schools. … We don’t want teams financially penalized by their success.”
Swofford confirmed that the disparity in the ACC’s $27.5 Orange Bowl payout and the $40 million the other power five conferences receive from their respective contract bowls is due to opponent. While the Sugar (SEC vs. Big 12) and Rose (Pacific 12 vs. Big Ten) have league champions on both sides of their game, the Orange has the ACC against the highest-ranked available non-champion from the SEC or Big Ten, or Notre Dame.
“That’s the distinct difference in those three bowls,” Swofford said, “and yet our payout from the Orange Bowl is going to be more than we received from the BCS. So it’s a terrific deal for us.”
While the Sugar and Rose payouts are 45 percent larger than the Orange, the $12.5 million disparity calculates to a modest $892,000 for each of the ACC’s 14 football members."