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Does anyone happen to know off the top of their head what percentage of Stanford's potential Sun Bowl payout Christian would have been entitled to receive? Rhetorical question, really.

Stanford makes chump change from the Sun Bowl. They won't net much at all after expenses and conference sharing.  CMac's and all the players bowl schwag, plane tickets, hotel rooms and entertainment would be a decent percentage of what Stanford nets in profit on the Sun Bowl.  CMac has certainly helped Stanford sell tickets and improve television ratings which benefits the school and funds many non-revenue Olympic sports at Stanford, but Stanford has also done a lot to build the CMac brand. The amount that the athletic department spends on PR, social media, video production, training facilities, trainers and coaches is not trivial and benefits the players and their ability to land a job in the NFL and future marketing endorsements.
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This is not quite accurate.  Stanford shares in all bowl game revenues equally with the other 12 teams in the conference.  So that revenue number is largely locked in with the exception of the CFP.  The costs are also relatively locked in because a Pac-12 team is generally going to go to every bowl game they are committed to (this year is an exception with only six bowl-eligible teams), and the CFP is extra.

I would expect all twelve teams to be profitable on bowl games, regardless of which bowl they go to (or none at all).

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[quote author=ThePOC link=topic=16303.msg183225#msg183225 date=1482257427]
Does anyone happen to know off the top of their head what percentage of Stanford's potential Sun Bowl payout Christian would have been entitled to receive? Rhetorical question, really.

Stanford makes chump change from the Sun Bowl. They won't net much at all after expenses and conference sharing.  CMac's and all the players bowl schwag, plane tickets, hotel rooms and entertainment would be a decent percentage of what Stanford nets in profit on the Sun Bowl.  CMac has certainly helped Stanford sell tickets and improve television ratings which benefits the school and funds many non-revenue Olympic sports at Stanford, but Stanford has also done a lot to build the CMac brand. The amount that the athletic department spends on PR, social media, video production, training facilities, trainers and coaches is not trivial and benefits the players and their ability to land a job in the NFL and future marketing endorsements.
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This is not quite accurate.  Stanford shares in all bowl game revenues equally with the other 12 teams in the conference.  So that revenue number is largely locked in with the exception of the CFP.  The costs are also relatively locked in because a Pac-12 team is generally going to go to every bowl game they are committed to (this year is an exception with only six bowl-eligible teams), and the CFP is extra.

I would expect all twelve teams to be profitable on bowl games, regardless of which bowl they go to (or none at all).