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From: cwd@cuae2.UUCP (Chris Donahue)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Scheduling
Message-ID: <1651@cuae2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 15:17:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 15:17:44 1985
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Summary: 

I think the problem is that football is a big money sport and therefore
long term contracts to play teams are made. A 70,000 seat stadium for
football brings in a lot more money than a 9,000 seat basketball arena.
As a case in point, the University of Michigan will open its season against
Notre Dame from 1985 - 1990. This was agreed to via a long term contract
signed in 1971 (or so). Both teams stand to make a lot of money from the games
and the contract specifies how much the visitor gets to take home.
I am not sure that basketball teams negotiate these details. If they did,
the amount of money to be shared is still small compared to football.

Chris Donahue
AT&T Info. Sys.
Application Engineering