RS9999X
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Work the numbers a little more.
$11 million to 9 BE members PLUS say another $3 million to an additional 8 bb-onlies. That's $123 million a year to the BE.
Then you look at the ACC and realize that $13 million was well below what, say, the Pac-10 was offered, so they had an undermarket arrangement. ESPN could stand to throw a few more bucks to the ACC anyway.
As I see it, that's $60 million more the already existing ACC members, plus an additional $14 million more to Pitt and Cuse combined. That's $60 million LESS than what they WERE going to pay the BE plus it gets the ACC off their back in terms of complaining about an undermarket deal. That $60 million less is naturally eaten up anytime a BE school joins a bigger conference, but nonetheless, it still represents a consolidation for ESPN.
By your numbers the BE football teams were getting $72 million a year for football ($8 million each) or $56 million for the 7 remainders.
If they pay SU and Pitt another $7 million each ($14 million) and each team $2 million (another $24 million) that's $38 million of added costs which now values the rest of BE football at ($56 m - $38 in new expenses ) or $18 million or $2.6 million per team for football and $5.6 million for both sports.
Not impossible but that would seem delicate if WVU goes to the SEC or B12.
You know what they say about sausage making.....