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Clemson University's trip to the 2012 Orange Bowl wound up costing its football program more than $113000, according to revenue and expense reports provided by the school to GSA Business. Clemson spent $1.84 million ...
Clemson University?s trip to the 2012 Orange Bowl wound up costing its football program more than $113,000, according to revenue and expense reports provided by the school to GSA Business.
Clemson spent $1.84 million on travel, lodging, food and other expenses related to the Orange Bowl, according to the reports. Meanwhile the bowl game only paid Clemson $1.72 million.
Not only that, Clemson had to shell out $2.3 million to cover the cost of approximately 8,000 tickets that it failed to sell ? although the Atlantic Coast Conference will reimburse the school for that expense.
The fifteenth-ranked Tigers were pummeled by No. 23 West Virginia in the game ? giving up a bowl-record 70 points to the Mountaineers en route to a humiliating 70-33 defeat. Not long after the debacle, head coach Dabo Swinney fired defensive coordinator Kevin Steele.
Amazingly, the school?s ?senior associate athletics director? Katie Hill claimed that the national exposure Clemson gained as a result of playing in the Orange Bowl provided the school with ?an unmeasured benefit.?
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everything else aside. it was poor planning on the part of espn and the OB that really led to this. honestly, who schedules a major event,in far as hell away miami florida, on a wednesday night-where your are going to miss 2 days of travel each way, and the day of the game(5 days)
So out of an alleged $17M bowl payout, ACC took a big chunk. OTOH, the $113,000 seems small given teh sugar daddies that finance too many things kept off the NCAA radar, non?