Pilots break attendance record

But you also need to add in the revenue from programs ($4 each) and all the T-shirt and other souvenir merchandise that the NCAA was selling. I'll bet that they get at least $2 from the average paying customer in merchandise sales. And that's not counting food: do they get a cut of that, too?

That stuff is all in the tournament handbook and goes on for several pages.

All the merchandise and programs are purchased by the host institution from Host Communications under NCAA contract. Host Comm. apparently gets to decide how much merchandise a host receives. It's unclear who eats the unsold merchandise, but it appears the host institution eats the actual sales costs (somebody to sit there and sell the stuff) . Any inserts are paid for by the host and are unreimbursed. I don't see anything about food, other than alcohol can't be served at the event site.

That could conceivably go to the host, but knowing the NCAA, I doubt it.

No alcohol

Yeah, that's what they say at Autzen, too.

Geezaldinho wrote:That stuff is all in the tournament handbook and goes on for several pages.

All the merchandise and programs are purchased by the host institution from Host Communications under NCAA contract. Host Comm. apparently gets to decide how much merchandise a host receives. It's unclear who eats the unsold merchandise, but it appears the host institution eats the actual sales costs (somebody to sit there and sell the stuff) . Any inserts are paid for by the host and are unreimbursed. I don't see anything about food, other than alcohol can't be served at the event site.

That could conceivably go to the host, but knowing the NCAA, I doubt it.

I understand that although the NCAA is a non-profit organization, it does have costs to cover. So I understand why it takes some of the revenue; but, it does seem like they take an awful big slice.

-SciFi

I think they feel that since they pay for travel and expenses for the tournament they should get the revenue. They do share March Madness money, the main revenue source.

There must be more to the setup than what's in the manual, I don't suppose we will ever really find out how it works.

You can get an idea, though by poking around Here

That info is through freedom of information requests from public schools.