Tulsa hopes to not lose money by going to the Hawaii Bowl, are not sending its band or spirit squad

OK = Oklahoman


About how they will basically break even going to the Hawaii Bowl, Tulsa AD Bubba Cunningham said:
"It's gonna be plus or minus $20,000 or $30,000. That's typically how we go into a bowl thinking." (OK)


OK Note: "Forget the $600,000 the Hawaii Bowl reportedly will pay its participating schools. Tulsa will never see that cash. Payouts from each of the six bowls affiliated with Conference USA go directly to the league and are pooled to cover expenses for the league's participating bowl teams. TU's compensation will come in the form of the roughly $580,000 to $600,000 C-USA will pay to fly the team to Oahu and house and feed 220 people for five nights. The air charter alone will cost about $425,000, according to reliable estimates."


Happy that their conference subsidizes their bowl game expenses, Cunningham said:
"It's very expensive to go. But I think our conference policy of putting all revenue in one bucket and taking all the expenses out of that same bucket, and then dividing what's left among the member institutions is really a smart way to do it and allows participating teams to break even and actually make a little money if you can sell tickets." (OK)


OK Note: "But TU must avoid cost overruns. That probably explains why the school isn't sending its roughly 100-member band or spirit squad."


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