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Insight Bowl nets surplus for Iowa athletics department
Iowa's Keenan Davis boards the plane for the football team's flight to Arizona for the Insight Bowl on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, at PS Air at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/SourceMedia Group News)
IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa athletics department reported a $382,500 surplus from its trip to the Insight Bowl last December, according to figures released by the university Friday to SourceMedia Group via the Freedom of Information Act.
Iowa received a $1.8 million allowance from the Big Ten Conference to compete in the Phoenix-area bowl game, and spent $1.417 million, according to the report.
Iowa’s primary expenses came from travel, food and lodging. Transportation costs to the game and around the Phoenix-area was $636,642. Food and lodging costs were $559,253. Iowa spent 10 days at the Insight Bowl, and had 651 people travel in some capacity.
Iowa listed $1.895 million in expenses from the 2010 Orange Bowl and spent $1.519 million at the 2009 Outback Bowl. Iowa came in under budget in those trips as well.
The report doesn’t show Iowa’s financial hit from unsold tickets. The Big Ten Conference incurred $361,171 in losses from unsold Insight Bowl tickets. Iowa and the Big Ten Conference were responsible for 11,000 tickets, but 6,745 went unused. League schools share the cost of unused bowl ticket, costing Iowa only $32,833. Iowa’s share from unused tickets at the 2010 Orange Bowl was $36,080.
The report also didn’t list the $494,861 in bonuses earned by Iowa’s coaches in qualifying for the game. The Hawkeyes beat Missouri 27-24, the school’s third straight bowl victory.
“First, I want to congratulate again our student-athletes and staff for a tremendous victory over a very talented and nationally ranked opponent,” Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said in a statement. “Our first visit to the Valley of the Sun was a very successful one and included another outstanding turnout by fans of the Hawkeyes who helped the Insight Bowl set a new attendance record. With respect to the financial report, credit goes to our staff and coaches for successfully managing the trip well within the budget provided.”
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651 people? Exactly how many hangers-on went?
85 scholly players
15 coaches
10 trainers
2 doctors
2 state patrolmen
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114
That may be off a little, but even adding families of the coaches can’t be more that 30 more people. Are all the professors, administrators, etc. that attend for free the same ones that whine and moan about bad player behavior and academics too?
I LOVE the Hawks and don’t mind some closest to the program going, but that seems to be extreme.
If that # includes the band, there’s 250+ there
Didn’t see if the band played or not since they didn’t show halftime performances on TV. If so, why doesn’t some of that come out of the music budget? Maybe not all, but a decent (33-50%) chunk of it.
Why would the band pay for its own expenses when the bowls give money for that?
The HMB is considered part of the athletic department, and gets nothing from the music budget (students don’t even get Fine Arts credit). For the season, the band gets only about $100,000 from the athletic budget which is hardly enough to keep the uniforms clean and the large instruments working (any additional money comes from donors to the band). The Big Ten pays for the band to go on the bowl trip because there is no other way to send the band; the money isn’t there.
Also, I can’t believe that you didn’t know the band was there because they showed us on TV every few minutes (“who are all those people wearing the same uniforms and holding those shiny things?”) and we played the school songs probably upwards of 50 times (the Missouri band however, was pretty quiet).
I missed the band shots – I was tailgating back in Iowa all day in anticipation – you know how much TAILGATING that is by a 9pm kickoff?
651 People? Hey Betty heres your plane ticket…..Please make sure there is pencils in the pencils holders…..Thank You!!!!!
I wonder how many Iowa fans were there. We know it was alot more than the 6,700. I heard most fans that live out there just bought tickets threw the Bowl it’s self. i wish they had a thing where they asked you when you bought your Tickets as to which school you were cheering for and kept that number. I assume other bowls know that Iowa travels well, even if the Tickets sold by the Team do not always says so.