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million for the conference; the second
team brings in about $4.5 million.
The payout for the Holiday Bowl
is about $2 million per conference.
But money isn’t everything. Offi
cials say it’s more about the prestige
and recognition than the cash.
“It really puts you in a very
special group,” said former Vice
President for Administration Dan
Williams, who’s currently doing
work with the Athletics Depart
ment. “If you can play in the top
tier postseason bowl games, that
carries a lot of credibility, and that
flows into interest on the part
of your fans and interest on the part
of the media.”
“All the benefits of having
a really good football
team come back to help
not just athletics bat
the entire University. ”
Bill Moos | Athletic Director
Athletic Director Bill Moos agreed
that the biggest financial benefits
don’t begin to play in until after the
game is played, when supporters
begin donating money and more
people buy season tickets.
“A lot of people have the miscon
ception that if there’s $4.5 million
for that second berth it all comes to
Oregon, and that’s not true,” Moos
said. “(The money) really finds it
self coming later in future ticket
sales, television exposures, novelty
sales — you can’t even put a price
tag on that.
“All the benefits of having a
really good football team come back
to help not just athletics but the
entire University. ”
Though many sports analysts and
football junkies have written the
Ducks out of the running, Moos
said Fiesta Bowl representatives
assured him when he visited them
last week that nothing will be
decided until after the last games
are played on Saturday.
The Fiesta Bowl selection
committee met for the first time
Monday, committee member and
the bowl’s Vice President for Media
Relations Shawn Schoeffler said,
adding that contrary to popular
belief, there had been no previous
discussion about the berths
between committee members.
Moos traveled to Tempe, Ariz.,
the site of the game, with Oregon
football coach Mike Bellotti and
three other Athletics Department
representatives to meet with Fiesta
Bowl officials and promote the
Ducks as a team worthy of a BCS
bowl berth.
“The good thing is we made
our case in person, and now it’s a
matter of following up and reiterat
ing some of those things,”
Moos said.
This week will be spent further
conversing with Fiesta Bowl offi
cials and “working every angle I can
to hopefully convince them that we
are an effective draw,” Moos said.
Moos said he planned on traveling
with the men’s basketball team to
Nashville, Term., for today’s game but
opted to stay in Eugene to work on
getting the football team a BCS berth.
Deciding which team will be in
vited to a bowl game depends most
ly on wins and losses and how
much fan support and hype the
team has, though Schoeffler said
there’s no exact formula the
committee follows.
Fan support is never a problem
for the Ducks, Moos said, and
Schoeffler said e-mails and faxes
have been pouring in from Duck
fans touting their team.
Moos said it’s important to con
tinue promoting the Ducks as BCS
worthy, but it’s also important to
make sure the University doesn’t
seem too pushy.
“There’s a fine line there,”
he said.
Williams served as interim athletic
director during 1994-95, the year the
Ducks went to the Rose Bowl. He said
much has changed in the department
since then because the Ducks have
further propelled themselves into the
national spotlight.
There’s no need to rush to make
sure bowl game plans are in place
because Moos’ staff has been
around for numerous trips to bowl
games and knows what needs to
be done, Williams said.
Moos said he has a plan in place
for both the Holiday Bowl and
the Fiesta Bowl, and he’s just
waiting to find out which one he
will put into play.
A trip to San Diego for the
Holiday Bowl would be great, Moos
said, but he’s holding out hope
that the Ducks will land the BCS
berth he and other officials say they
so deserve.
“People will turn on their
television sets to watch Oregon,” he
said. “We’ve moved the Oregon
football program into the national
spotlight, and we’ll go head to head
with anyone. ”
Williams said if BCS officials truly
want the best teams to play in their
bowl games, they’ll focus more on
wins and losses rather than on how
storied the football program is.
“10-1 is a big deal,” Williams
said.
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