BE Associate Commissioner Said BE TV Deal Could Equal or Exceed ACC's Deal

If it's an NBC leak, it's a floor. Imagine that your neighbor is selling his car and you are interested in it for, say 10K. Do you hint that you are willing to pay 15K or 5K?

We don't even know if it's a leak from anyone never mind what party it's leaked from. But yeah I understand that NBC wouldn't float their max number.

we've been the 5th best league for several years. Now we're going to get paid like it...
If this deal is more money per school than the ACC, I can't wait to see the spin job from Swofford.
Things are going to be very interesting over the next couple months.

I'd be intrigued what happens if the NHL locks out. That's pretty much all NBC has right now. Would that possibility, which I believe will be decided by Sept, impact NBC's urgency in landing something to save their fledgling NBCSN?

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That's actually a good observation. I think it would certainly up their desperation for brand name programming.

There was an earlier rumor out there similar to this one where they parsed the contract terms wrong. The original source said $4 million for basketball and $10 million for football schools. That was the inclusive figure for the football/basketball schools. It wasn't $10 mil for football onlies but it wasn't explicit.

The San Diego figure of $6.2 on football was essentially correct and the original quote never said $10 mil for football onlies or 514 mil. Except it got combobulated by the time it hit the internet and became $14 mil for football/basketball schools.

I'd have to hear the original source before this $14-$17 mil sounds ......... accurate

Reality sets in...

One industry source said this week that even with the addition of Boise State in football only – now considered a Big East lynchpin – a Big East deal would be worth no more than $70 million per year. CBSSports.com reported in May that the league could get as little as $50 million per year after the defections of West Virginia, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and TCU.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...-general-counsel-in-big-east-commissioner-mix

70 mil for 12 teans is 5.8 mil and 50 mil for 12 is 4.1.

Definitely ACC level money. It is, really. Come on, sure it is. Four million per year is the same as 17 million. It absolutely is.

Old news observer, we hashed that out in one of the "Ruh Roh" threads (that I started) a few months ago. I'm as eager as anyone to get UConn out of the BE but if they do leave eventually it won't be because the ACC contract is some kind of manna from heaven. You can be delusional if you want but it's not helping your position. I'm gradually changing my view from "jump ship ASAP' to "we'll be fine in the Big East for a decade, giving us time to position ourselves for the Big Ten".

LOL.. let's see, some random UNNAMED sources vs. people that actually put their names behind their comments. For all we know, CBS' source could be the writer's neighbor's ugly brother-in-law's cousin.

BTW, $4M to $6M is probably what they will be paying for BE basketball rights. They left out the football part LOL.

You are trolling way too hard. As for rest of folks here, do the following:

That's good stuff Observer... But I think you have to take into consideration that the source here is anonymous. That is usually indicative that there is not source. I also think that you have to understand that this is CBS, which is a potential bidder.
As you could imagine, I don't think it would be in anyone's interest (from a media perspective), to increase the market value of the big east. you can certainly attempt to decrease the value by doing what you are seeing here which is to suggest low-ball figures.

I find it funny that your last comment is almost exactly Swofford's sentiment when trying to convey that his deal for the ACC was in line with the Big12.

Thanks again for keeping us on our toes here at the Boneyard.

Me too. I really could care less about either conference at this point. The Big East is how we fill our schedule each year.

The ACC has greater stability, but it doesn't seem as appealing as it once did.