The Herd
- If going to a bowl game costs
$89,840, then don't go to the game
BE careful what you wish for. You may get exactly that -along with a due bill for freight and delivery.
Marshall University found this out the hard way when its footballteam won the league championship in its first year back in the Mid-American Conference.
Winning the MAC meant the Thundering Herd went to the inauguralMotor City Bowl in Pontiac, Mich., last year. Under NCAA rules, bowlofficials had to pay Marshall a minimum of $750,000.
But Marshall was also charged $512,000 for 16,000 tickets.Marshall sold less than half those …
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