How do they divvy up $475 million for the playoff???

[huskypantz]

ESPN will pay $475 million per year for 12 years. Who gets this money? 4 teams participate in the bowl, but EVERY*** team is eligible to play in the playoff. Realistically, you could give $3 mil to every FBS school and still have enough left over to reward the participants with $15-25 M per school. Remember, the Fat Five already are getting big bucks for their "BCS" games, so this is is just piling it on at this point. Has anyone heard how the cash gets distributed?

 

[junglehusky]

The scale is tipping towards the quote-unquote power five, and away from the big east. And on-the-field performance is getting de-emphasized, at least for the BE. The line about academics is interesting though, I wonder how that will be enforced. Oh wait a minute, it won't be. The SEC will still put football ahead of the classroom.

 

[RS9999X]

There were two plans on the table. Both plans included a ranking system for revenue distribution points to be carried over to new conference affiliations based on the prior 12 years performance,

System I: A simple count of the number of teams finishing in the top 25 each season (non-weighted). This system is the best for the BE and ND and BYU.

System II is weighted: 25 points for 1st down to 1 point for 25th. Much less favorable for the BE, ND or BYU. Favors the Big 3

Both are in play with the Big 5 recommending System II to the Presidents Committee.

 

[RS9999X]

The worst and best case I saw for the BE was 5.3% to 6.8% of the total based on 12-year trailing history with the SEC looking at 21% to 22%. With the other 4 majors clustered between 14% and 18% per conference.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I saw this on another message board. It shows revenue paid out by BCS points earned.

SEC - $144,345,640.10 - $10,310,402.86 - $9,623,042.67 - 21%
B1G - $117,777,277,50 - $9,814,773.13 - $9,059,790.58 - 20%
Big 12 - $111,751,463.30 - $11,175,146.33 - $10,159,223.94 - 22%
ACC - $92,167,567.16 - $6,583,297.65 - $6,144,504.48 - 13%
Pac-12 - $91,893,666.52 - $7,657,805.54 - $7,068,743.58 - 15%
BIG EAST - $32,868,077.44 - $2,528,313.65 - $2,347,719.82 - 5%
CUSA - $6,710,565.81 - $479,326.13 - $447,371.05 - 1%
MWC - $7,943,118.78 - $794,311.87 - $722,101.70 - 2%
MAC - $2,875,956.78 - $221,227.44 - $205,425.48 - 0%
SUN BELT - $0.00 - $0.00 - $0.00 - 0%

So, as I've said all along, adding Memphis and Temple was a mistake and adding any other teams besides BYU is even a bigger mistake.

The Big East being at 14 teams, caused UConn's payout to go down by at least $400,000 based on this scenario and that's not even including the positive impact BYU would have had on this hypothetical scenario.

There is absolutely no excuse why this below 12 team league should not have happened.

UConn, Louisville, Cincy, USF, Rutgers, Boise State, SD State, UCF, Houston, SMU, Navy, BYU

 

[huskypantz]

Well that's just horrid. Another means to tip the scales even further. And two thirds of the formula is subjectively based off the rankings submitted by coaches and beat writers who obviously want to see their conference make the most money possible.

 

[junglehusky]

Well the BE still is a basketball-centric league, and is even selling itself that way now.

 

[huskymedic]

The worst and best case I saw for the BE was 5.3% to 6.8% of the total based on 12-year trailing history with the SEC looking at 21% to 22%. With the other 4 majors clustered between 14% and 18% per conference.

There is also a 10% holdback of $$ if a school fails to meet APR standards (not sure what they are).

 

[mattp]

If it's run at all like the Fiesta Bowl you need to skim at least 10% off the top to cover golf club memberships

 

[noeynox]

Any way you look at it, ACC teams about to pull in three times as much as big east teams? Talk about a kick in the balls!

 

[huskymedic]

Per USA Today... "The question of how the revenue will be distributed has apparently been settled, at least in broad terms. Though presidents and commissioners at the Hyatt Regency would not discuss the terms because they hadn't been finalized, CBSSports.com reported Sunday the "Group of Five" would split at least 20 percent of the overall bowl revenue.

"There will be plenty of money for everybody," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said. "The bottom line is 'more.' "

Northern Illinois president John Peters, who represented the Mid-American Conference, said the vote on revenue distribution was unanimous.

"We think it's fair," Peters said. "It does recognize that some conferences contribute more in a revenue way. … From my point of view for my conference, what it means is more."

Said the Big East's Aresco: "The fairness aspect is definitely there."

Somebody else can do the math...

 

[huskymedic]

There is also a 10% holdback of $$ if a school fails to meet APR standards (not sure what they are).

Washington Post reports that teams that do not reach 930 APR will lose 10 % of revenue received by a conference.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Well, if there is any use of polls regarding how money is divided up, then the coach's poll has to go away as a metric.

If, they do go by a coaches poll, then the # of voters from each conference needs to be proportional to the conference's size.

As in the Big12 with 10 teams has less voting coaches than the SEC with 14 teams.

Otherwise it becomes a complete farce where coaches vote for teams within their own conference to ensure their conference gets more money. It's a self-feeding mechanism of gluttony.