Recent content by frankthetank

To this day, I don’t understand the arguments that the Big East would be a league that’s going downward. They already make more TV money than any of the Group of 5 conferences and they don’t even play football (meaning they’re getting a MUCH MUCH MUCH higher ROI without those football expenses)...

The contract details probably won't ever be made public. However, as I noted previously, it's standard to have a most favored nation clause in basic cable agreements, so BTN (or any other basic cable network) can't offer a better deal to Comcast compared to DirecTV, Dish, et. al or else they...

This is the exact same distribution that the BTN had previously with Comcast: basic cable in Big Ten states and adjacent markets with sports pack coverage in all other areas. They only noted the “adding” of BTN in sports packs in non-Big Ten markets because Comcast started taking the channel off...

Cable companies probably would like a la carte very much for this type of network. They would love it if sports networks would be offered like HBO because such sports networks are typically the most expensive basic cable channels. However, there's a bit of a catch-22: the high cost of cable...

It's not a fabrication. A reporter sent it to me as a message he found as part of a FOIA request. People can (and do) disagree with my opinions and analysis all of the time, which is fine, but I'm pretty upfront that I don't make up stories (unlike some others out there).

I'll just leave this here.

I agree that the NBE TV money is only a fraction of the revenue compared to the P5 and individual school media and shoe deals can be much more by comparison. That being said, the NBE schools also aren't carrying the costs of FBS football and the arms race that the sport entails. It's not so much...

I wouldn't count on a P5 breakaway. As long as the P5 control 90%-plus of the college football revenue, they'll likely live with the NCAA for everything else (particularly since the P5 was able legislate different standards for "high resource" schools). It certainly irks some P5 administrators...

Three points: (1) The Big East is a better and more valuable basketball conference than the AAC (whether you're talking about on-the-court results, branding or TV money). When you consider how much the Big East is getting paid in TV money and that it's higher than the AAC *without* football and...

I don't assume that "any" P5 game is worth than any G5 game. However, I do think there's quite a bit of evidence that the top 1 or 2 games from each P5 conference per week consistently get bigger ratings than what the G5 can offer. Those top 1 or 2 games are where the outsized ratings come from...

I'd agree with you there at least with respect to UConn, which this seems to point that UConn's basketball programs (both men's and women's) are subsidizing the rest of the AAC contract. UConn's women's basketball has a fairly high TV value while the rest of the AAC women's basketball probably...

Oh, I understand your argument. I don't necessarily agree that your data point (the number of ESPN appearances by UConn) supports your conclusion (that this means UConn is subsidizing schools within the P5 that aren't as valuable). UConn may very well be more valuable than Wake Forest, but I...

Once again, I agree. EPL promotion is based on on-the-field performance, whereas P5 promotion has only a loose correlation at best to on-the-field performance (and no correlation if you happen to occupy the correct real estate such as Rutgers).

Well, this actually displays how college football TV distributions are similar. Aston Villa is certainly the bigger club in a vacuum. However, games aren't played in a vacuum and, as of now, Bournemouth is getting exponentially more TV revenue as part of the EPL compared to the relegated Aston...

I agree. I'm just looking at the EPL as an example outside of college football of where TV money completely changes depending upon league membership even if you field the exact same team with the exact same fans. There's not a linear financial distribution from league-to-league - instead, it's a...