Big 10 25 million per team

[B1GEast]

Not too shabby! FSU are you paying attention?

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/coll...cle_41763ece-a120-11e1-b930-0019bb30f31a.html


Each Big Ten school will receive a record of approximately $24.6 million in shared revenue from the conference this year, according to figures provided by the Illinois athletic department.

The projected payout is based on budget estimates and is expected to include $7.2 million from the Big Ten Network, a drop from last year's $7.9 million. However, contracts with ESPN/ABC and CBS will result in $10 million per school, which is a 22 percent increase over last year.
Nebraska, which is completing its first year in the Big Ten, does not receive a full share of revenue yet.

The Big Ten paid its 11 members close to $22.8 million last year. TV revenues have allowed the conference to maintain its status as the richest in the country. By comparison, the Southeastern Conference paid an average of $19.5 million in 2011.

 

[B1GEast]

SEC & Pac 12 will soon have their payday

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/coll...-will-see-big-payday-from-TV-deals/55095542/1

The Southeastern Conference's 12 current schools each stand to add about $8 million a year in revenue under soon-to-be-renegotiated television agreements, but they will be well short of what Pacific-12 Conference schools might get from the combination of their recent TV deals and new conference-owned networks, according to an estimate prepared for USA TODAY Sports by a college sports rights-valuation firm.

 

[Jericho]

The Big 10 numbers are fairly accurate, although Nebraska is not pulling a full share (they are "buying in" to the Big 10), so if/when the revenue is equally divided the number is likely around $24 million (but it will likely rise over time)

Not sure about the SEC adding $8 million per school. The SEC is stuck in the same position as the ACC, rengotiating an existing contract. Not sure they will get that big of raise.

And the Pac-12? The article admits the $21 million or so in Tier 1 and 2 rights. I assume the extra $9 million is supposed to come from the Pac 12 Network? Not sure I can buy that, particularly when the Big 10 (which both should be more popular and should have more content, including some Tier 2 rights, than the Pac 12) earns less. Although I believe the Pac-12 Network includes some stuff like coache's shows that are usually sold individually by schools (even in the ACC).

 

[Kevin Caliendo]

While these numbers look big, the reality is that $3M or $5M a year is a drop in the bucket for most large universities. For a school like FSU or Clemosn to move for that much money is almost an insult to everything that is not football at the schools (insert punch line here about football is only thing that matters at these schools). $5M in revenues is like getting 500 more students at $10,000 tuition. of course there are costs associated with 500 students, but the school ahs 40,000+ students already, so increasing by 1.25% is certianly leverageable. Really, this is insane and an ego trip for the BOT.

 

[Dann]

its not just the $5mil a year difference now. its being in the big 4 or not. its being apart of the new bowls that will be made that make each conf $59mil a year to split and so on...its not a couple mil difference. once everything settles its going to be a 40 vs 20 mil difference. either u join or u get left out. those like fsu who can go, will go, those like us hoping to go, will hope and pray. u don't kick yourself in the balls and pass it up. just let it play out.

next week all the rumors will go wild and by june 5th we will know about fsu/clem and who the other 2 are. nd's hand will then be forced. vt/gt/md/ncst and others who didn't go to the b12 with fsu/clem will have to august 15th to find a home and buyout of the acc. they will and the sec/b10 will feast forcing nd to pick 1 of the 2. by september we will know what uconn is doing for 2013.

 

[upstater]

While these numbers look big, the reality is that $3M or $5M a year is a drop in the bucket for most large universities. For a school like FSU or Clemosn to move for that much money is almost an insult to everything that is not football at the schools (insert punch line here about football is only thing that matters at these schools). $5M in revenues is like getting 500 more students at $10,000 tuition. of course there are costs associated with 500 students, but the school ahs 40,000+ students already, so increasing by 1.25% is certianly leverageable. Really, this is insane and an ego trip for the BOT.

Tuition does not cover cost per student.

Also, the budget has fixed costs. You can't renege on research grant commitments or projects. The part of the budget that is fungible is small, and even there it requires incredible actions (such as retrenchment, or the total elimination of academic programs) rather than firing individual tenured faculty as a business might fire workers.

 

[Kevin Caliendo]

I hear you. If that $20M difference is correct. I truly question whether the values are going to be real in the end. Bowl games lose $$$. CBS is not going to re-up at a higher # just becasue the SEC brought in A&M and Mizzou (who cares). The ACC got nothing for Pitt and Syracuse. the only school that will bring in $$ for a conference is ND. I doubt a FSU/Clemson would move the needle much for the Big 12 in terms of TV dollars. And the bowl games not in the top whatever will be worthless, so there are only going to be 4 bowl games that matter (unless they go to 8 or 16-team playoff, then those game will bring in TV money)

FSU is basically saying, for the value of 2,00 students, we'd prefer to drop our academicly oriented conferecne so that our football team ahas a chance to be relevent.

 

[businesslawyer]

Huh? FSU becomes weaker academically because instead of playing football against UNC it plays Iowa State?

I admit to never having played college football, but I'd be a little surprised if a Center told me that while he's waiting for the QB to call the signals he's discussing macroeconomic policy with the NG in his face, and now that it will be an Iowa State NG rather than a UNC NG he's worried he won't understand the material as well.

 

[RS9999X]

The Big 10 numbers are fairly accurate,

Not sure about the SEC adding $8 million per school. The SEC is stuck in the same position as the ACC, rengotiating an existing contract. Not sure they will get that big of raise.
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The BiG numbers are real money, this year money, not money averaged over the next 15 years pie-in-the-sky numbers.

The SEC problem: They have to convince CBS to partner with them by adding a 9th game and ceding some replay rights, digital media rights, and financing an SEC Regional Network for non-Revenue sports and an SEC game of the week on the Network channel. Likely there's a lot more in this for the SEC than CBS and requires some regional cooperation -- the Vandy Network is not a reality. Who knows? Maybe they call RayCom again to make it work.

Notice no one talks about ACC distributions. Real money distributions? The Big 12 is heading for $20 mil yearly conference distributions (plus local/regional networks) .

 

[metsfan2323]

FSU is basically saying, for the value of 2,00 students, we'd prefer to drop our academicly oriented conferecne so that our football team ahas a chance to be relevent.

Academically oriented conference? North Carolina kids were attending fake classes and North Carolina is that conference's flagship school.

 

[UConnDan97]

Academically oriented conference? North Carolina kids were attending fake classes and North Carolina is that conference's flagship school.

Academics are so important in college football realignment that Notre Dame is practically BEGGING to go to the ACC. Oh, no wait, I'm sorry....I meant MONEY is the important thing, not academics. Money.