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BYU Pays Arizona State and Utah to play at BYU!?

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    • 09/05/2021 at 8:36 AM #149387
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      tarheelute
      Ute Fan
      @tarheelute

      In a USA Story yesterday (web link), they reported that several Power Conference teams, including Washington, Illinois and Georgia Tech paid big bucks, only to lose to the team they paid to pad their schedual – no big news.   USA Today tracks how team much is paid (web link), and I note that BYU paid both Utah and Arizona State to play them at Provo this year.  

      September 18 Bowling Green Murray State 350,000    
      September 11 Brigham Young Utah 250,000    
      September 18 Brigham Young Arizona State 400,000    
      September 25 Brigham Young South Florida 250,000    
      October 9 Brigham Young Boise State 225,000    
      November 6 Brigham Young Idaho State 500,000  
    • 09/05/2021 at 9:19 AM #149395
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      wcrunner
      Ute Fan
      @wcrunner

      On the home and home contracts, the visiting team always gets an appearance fee.  Pre Covid, it was normally $300,000 paid to the visiting team.  I would imagine that since the in state opponents don’t have a huge travel cost, that the appearance fee is probably reduced for that.

      • 09/05/2021 at 9:22 AM #149400

        UrbanLiar
        Ute Fan
        @urbanliar

        That huge travel expense from Pocatello makes sense for Idaho State then🤣

    • 09/05/2021 at 9:20 AM #149398

      UrbanLiar
      Ute Fan
      @urbanliar

      Hmmm…so Idaho State gets twice the payout we get for playing TDS. And I’m pretty sure TDS raises their ticket face value of the Ute game. The Tater Zoobs get even less.

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