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Yahoo Thamel:


-> Here’s one man’s plan for the league.

Add eight schools — BYU, Boise State, Colorado State, San Diego State, Houston, UCF, USF and Cincinnati. (Memphis and Tulane could also be considered.) The bonus here: There are some pretty stout basketball programs.

Break those 16 teams into four pods to keep some of the league’s familiarity. The teams in the pods would play each other every year.
  • West: Boise State, BYU, Colorado State and San Diego State
  • Midwest: Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma State
  • Texas: Baylor, TCU, Texas Tech and Houston (Tulane could go here if the egos of the Texas schools foolishly block Houston.)
  • East: Cincinnati, West Virginia, UCF and USF (Memphis could go here if two Florida schools aren't wanted.)
Going this big works out for the Big 12 in a few ways. First off, it kneecaps the AAC and Mountain West with such force that the Big 12 solidifies itself as the No. 5 league in the country. By a distance.

Pillaging the best programs from the two leagues below them — and adding a solid independent in BYU to pull in a streaming audience — creates a giant moat between the Big 12 and anyone else behind it. It also makes a loud statement to the College Football Playoff that the league has all the teams outside the Chosen 57 that would likely be considered for the CFP. <-
How does this help UConn in terms of scheduling or getting out of FB independence?
 

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Isn't MAC's media deal with ESPN worth @$1M, not per school, collectively. UConn gets @$500K from CBSSN for it's football. What's the point in our going to the MAC? Scheduling? That appears to be less of an issue than many of thought it would be.
The MAC’s last deal was 1 million collectively. I haven’t seen the number for their current deal but when they signed it was announced as “slightly more than $1 million collectively. Compared to P5 numbers that’s so low that I originally thought it was per school as well. But that’s from memory. Google it, if you want.
 
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Current MAC deal is about 670k per team/ per year (AAV). Runs through 2026:

That said it was an escalator from their prior $1M total deal (the first three years of the deal actually were redoing that deal) and the 10 new seasons of this extension are for closer to $10M total to the league (~800k AAV on a per team basis).


While these articles are old, they are consistent with the figures I've seen elsewhere

The MAC as a result actually makes 5x as much as C-USA which currently earns $2M a year total for the conference.
 

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