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B1G & SEC non-committal on CFP future

Rufus said:
I think basketball is currently undervalued in conference payouts. Once everything is hashed out with football rules, I think basketball is next on the docket. How much money can an expanded March Madness bring in, especially if the NCAA is pushed out of the equation? Maybe not as valuable as football, but definitely much more valuable than today.

And if it does prove valuable enough for the B1G, then UConn, Kansas, Arizona, UNC, Duke, and Syracuse all have to be potential expansion targets. Right now, only UNC makes that list.

So far, only Maryland and UCLA have been additions benefitting basketball for the B1G, and that was more coincidental than intentional.
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The only way Maryland is benefitting the B1G is basketball is by getting beaten by the top tier consistently. At least they can boast that they finished ahead of Rutgers last season.
 
buddy said:
The only way Maryland is benefitting the B1G is basketball is by getting beaten by the top tier consistently. At least they can boast that they finished ahead of Rutgers last season.
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Oh, I can think of roughly 75,000,000 reasons they benefited from their move.
 
CL82 said:
Oh, I can think of roughly 75,000,000 reasons they benefited from their move.
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Rufus said that Big Ten basketball benefited from acquiring Maryland and UCLA. I don't see how they those acquistions have improved Big Ten basketball. I believe you are stating that Maryland is the beneficiary of the move, and you are certainly correct on that. Same goes to UCLA and RU.
 
buddy said:
Rufus said that Big Ten basketball benefited from acquiring Maryland and UCLA. I don't see how they those acquistions have improved Big Ten basketball. I believe you are stating that Maryland is the beneficiary of the move, and you are certainly correct on that. Same goes to UCLA and RU.
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Getting the Big Ten network on the first tier of cable with premium pricing in the DMV and LA markets would seem to be a fairly significant benefit to me. Rutgers brought them first tier pricing in the NYCDMA. That alone was a huge win for them. None of those additions were attempts to improve the quality of play on the field or on the court. They were money grabs, pure and simple, and very strategic ones at that.
 
buddy said:
The only way Maryland is benefitting the B1G is basketball is by getting beaten by the top tier consistently. At least they can boast that they finished ahead of Rutgers last season.
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Maryland has won the B1G Championship in basketball before. At least the regular season. Not sure if they have won the conference tournament or not. It’s a basketball school. Just like UCLA. Every other add has been a football minded school except Rutgers which is neither.
 
CL82 said:
Getting the Big Ten network on the first tier of cable with premium pricing in the DMV and LA markets would seem to be a fairly significant benefit to me. Rutgers brought them first tier pricing in the NYCDMA. That alone was a huge win for them. None of those additions were attempts to improve the quality of play on the field or on the court. They were money grabs, pure and simple, and very strategic ones at that.
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The cable bundle is dying. How long will these bundles last? You can’t make a conference move thunking you are going to automatically get carriage.

Sling and YouTube tv don’t have the Yankees in New York. That, without a doubt, means that there is a market for packages they don’t have these fringe college tv stations.

It isn’t going to be size if media market that matters, it will be intensity if fanbase to buy a service that my team is on. The days of my mom paying for Rutgers football on big 10 channel is over.
 
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JohnFSilver said:
The cable bundle is dying. How long will these bundles last? You can’t make a conference move thunking you are going to automatically get carriage.

Sling and YouTube tv don’t have the Yankees in New York. That, without a doubt, means that there is a market for packages they don’t have these fringe college tv stations.

It isn’t going to be size if media market that matters, it will be intensity if fanbase to buy a service that my team is on. The days of my mom paying for Rutgers football on big 10 channel is over.
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The Big 10 Network is a unique situation which will always be an asset either as part of cable bundles or as a separately paid for subscription. For the latter, fan size and intensity will be more relevant than geography.
 
www.usatoday.com

Big Ten outpaced SEC with $880 million in revenue for 2023 fiscal year with most schools getting $60.5 million

The Big Ten continues to outpace the SEC in total revenue. The league reported almost $880 million and distributed $60.5 million to schools.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com

B1G schools received $60.5 million in media rights in fiscal year 2023, except for Rutgers and Maryland as they are still repaying loans. Those 2 schools are inching closer to receiving full shares and earned around $2 million less each than the other 12 schools in 2023.
 
Rufus said:
www.usatoday.com

Big Ten outpaced SEC with $880 million in revenue for 2023 fiscal year with most schools getting $60.5 million

The Big Ten continues to outpace the SEC in total revenue. The league reported almost $880 million and distributed $60.5 million to schools.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com

B1G schools received $60.5 million in media rights in fiscal year 2023, except for Rutgers and Maryland as they are still repaying loans. Those 2 schools are inching closer to receiving full shares and earned around $2 million less each than the other 12 schools in 2023.
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I could not be more excited for the Big 10 and their recent basketball championship. Wait, did they win the championship in men's basketball?
 
Rufus said:
I think basketball is currently undervalued in conference payouts. Once everything is hashed out with football rules, I think basketball is next on the docket. How much money can an expanded March Madness bring in, especially if the NCAA is pushed out of the equation? Maybe not as valuable as football, but definitely much more valuable than today.

And if it does prove valuable enough for the B1G, then UConn, Kansas, Arizona, UNC, Duke, and Syracuse all have to be potential expansion targets. Right now, only UNC makes that list.

So far, only Maryland and UCLA have been additions benefitting basketball for the B1G, and that was more coincidental than intentional.
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If each game in NCAA is worth $2M, in last two years, UConn has earned BE $24M alone.
 
uconnyankee said:
If each game in NCAA is worth $2M, in last two years, UConn has earned BE $24M alone.
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Units stop counting after the final four. So it would be $20M paid out over the next 6 years (5 for the 2022-23 units). Splitting that 11 ways (it would be 12-ways if the conference keeps a share for itself), each championship is worth 900k per school, or ~1.8M for the back to back runs.

The Big East as a whole earned 11 units last year... actually 1 unit under what you would've forecasted based on the seeds earned by the teams.
 
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Husky92 said:
Very interesting read. Good to know the SEC and BIG were forced(?) to step back a bit.
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I’m not too sure that is what is happening here. It could be that they are still mapping out how many more schools they add to their conferences. The end game will sway where they take things in the future. The other conferences already signed off on giving the P2 more power in setting the course when they signed off on the 12 team playoff. The P2 have the power, no need to rush into anything.
 
Rufus said:
I’m not too sure that is what is happening here. It could be that they are still mapping out how many more schools they add to their conferences. The end game will sway where they take things in the future. The other conferences already signed off on giving the P2 more power in setting the course when they signed off on the 12 team playoff. The P2 have the power, no need to rush into anything.
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You realize that you don't have any of this power, right? You are just an internet poster that decided he liked the Big 10.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
You realize that you don't have any of this power, right? You are just an internet poster that decided he liked the Big 10.
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What are you even talking about? When did I say I had power? You distort everything people post on here.
 
Rufus said:
So you don't think this structure is to eliminate all independents and force teams to join conferences?
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You're 100% correct. That's why Independents are getting a fraction of the CFP payouts.
 
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