YSU Athletic Director Ron Strollo discussed why the Penguins’ football program is content on staying in the FCS and potential avenues YSU might explore if the a change was ever instated. YSU considered a potential expansion team a couple times while YSU President Jim Tressel was the head coach, but the change was never made. Since the ‘90s, the fans of the Youngstown State University football team had hopes the program would move from the FCS to the FBS. They picked up some of the more-successful programs from the FCS to try to reinstate balance and stay competitive with other FBS conferences. The smaller conferences turned to the Football Championship Subdivision. And since the payouts come based on wins, they could use all the help they can get.Several years ago college football was thrown into chaos as Division I Football Bowl Subdivision conferences tried to reconfigure in order to meet the requirements to create a conference championship game.Īfter a number of teams left their original conferences to join the Big Ten, Atlantic Coastal Conference and Big 12, the smaller conferences looked to fill holes left by some of their most successful teams. If this run further legitimizes the MVC as a quality basketball league (a perception that should have solidified long ago, but definitely after Wichita State so clearly translated its success into March), it might lead to stronger seedings for the champion, or even years with multiple bids. And that’s where the intangible elements of Loyola’s success might come into play. The Missouri Valley chooses to reimburse its tournament representative’s travel costs, then divide the money evenly, meaning Loyola will see roughly the same amount as Missouri State or Southern Illinois.īut it also means that a dry spell can have a big impact once the money runs out.
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Next year’s total, the first to include Loyola-Chicago’s winnings, will be even higher.Ĭonferences can choose how to divvy up the money they make from NCAA tournament success. Thanks largely to Wichita State’s past successes, the conference will distribute a record $6.4 million in NCAA tournament monies for 2018. The Missouri Valley pulls in about $11 million in annual revenue, comprised mainly of March Madness payouts, with other money coming from its conference tournaments, a television deal with ESPN and a multimedia rights deal with sports marketer Learfield. The Valley is still earning money from former member Wichita State’s various runs as well. The rolling payout structure is also interesting, spreading out the payments and allowing for year-upon-year building, should a team make another run. About 65 percent of the conference’s revenue comes from successes in the NCAA tournament, so winning runs like Loyola’s go a long way toward establishing a steady future for the whole league.
But for the Missouri Valley, which doesn’t offer top-tier football, it’s a windfall. That’s a drop in the bucket for bigger leagues like the Atlantic Coast Conference, which make $375 million in annual revenue fueled primarily by college football. Regardless of how well the Ramblers perform in the Final Four this weekend, they’ll have clinched about $8.5 million for their conference. In simple terms, for every tournament game a school plays, not including the championship, the NCAA rewards that team’s conference with about $1.7 million, paid out over six years. The NCAA has a complex way of rewarding teams for their tournament success.
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