USF is actually paying Alabama $400,000 to come here

[surfer]

USF gets $400,000 on its first trip to Bama and $1 million if the third game happens (there are out-clauses). This story from Al.com has the details.

Why is Alabama football traveling to South Florida? Here’s what the contract says.

WWW.AL.COM

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The Crimson Tide will be playing its first non-power conference game in 20 years.

 

[Rocky Style]

In the first two years of the series, 2023 and 2024, the home team will pay the visiting team $400,000. For the 2026 meeting in Tuscaloosa, the end of the deal, Alabama will pay USF $1 million.

[Outlaw]

4 hours ago, surfer said:

USF gets $400,000 on its first trip to Bama and $1 million if the third game happens (there are out-clauses). This story from Al.com has the details.

Why is Alabama football traveling to South Florida? Here’s what the contract says.

WWW.AL.COM

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The Crimson Tide will be playing its first non-power conference game in 20 years.

 

I am pretty sure Bama has played non power5 games in the last 20 years.... The AL paper clearly did not get an AAU education .

Edited September 16, 2023 by Outlaw

[Triple B]

7 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

I am pretty sure Bama has played non power5 games in the last 20 years.... The AL paper clearly did not get an AAU education .

That's just another one of those missed facts that litter the Internet, with a missing "road" that's in the article itself ....

One thing from the article that i assume has already been discussed, but I've missed, is that there will be AAC officials

[Jim Johnson]

50 minutes ago, Rocky Style said:

In the first two years of the series, 2023 and 2024, the home team will pay the visiting team $400,000. For the 2026 meeting in Tuscaloosa, the end of the deal, Alabama will pay USF $1 million.

This is actually pretty standard.  The home team effectively pays the travel costs for the visiting team in a 1:1 non-conference game.

[Gismo]

Alabama agreed to a 2:1 with us. 
Weren’t we supposed to have that with Florida as well? 
 

I like the 2:1 scheduling and getting some marquee opponents at home that might not agree to a 1:1. 

[Rocky Style]

6 hours ago, Gismo said:

Alabama agreed to a 2:1 with us. 
Weren’t we supposed to have that with Florida as well? 
 

I like the 2:1 scheduling and getting some marquee opponents at home that might not agree to a 1:1. 

It's either that or we have a lot of Charlotte steamers on the roster.

[Jim Johnson]

7 hours ago, Gismo said:

Alabama agreed to a 2:1 with us. 
Weren’t we supposed to have that with Florida as well? 

Yes...

2021 Florida @ USF

2022 USF @ Florida

2025 USF @ Florida

[Rocky Style]

1 minute ago, Jim Johnson said:

2025 USF @ Florida

Oooooh this could be a good one.

[Outlaw]

3 hours ago, Rocky Style said:

Oooooh this could be a good one.

Hopefully they still have SunBelt Billy Napier coaching.