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Message: [QUOTE="ScottVib, post: 4646730, member: 694"] The AAC didn't lose money because they offered up a 27% increase of inventory... even then that hasn't kept the per school average revenue per year even, as a result, they're paying their new additions 50% of what legacy schools earn. It'll be interesting to see what happens if SMU leaves.. if/when they are replaced you will have further diminished the value of that league AND the new teams will have the same number of votes as the legacy teams. If the Big East is "screwed" it won't be because of timing. It'll be because the economics around basketball and basketball first leagues are what they are... and that for the most part the Big East schools have a comparative low name value individually. The brand value of the conference is greater than the value of the member schools individually, except UConn (and maybe Villanova). So unlike some leagues where you're buying Alabama or Ohio State football or Duke basketball; plus some other teams, you're buying the Big East with the thought that you can sell the game based on the Big East name; not because it features Creighton vs. Marquette or Xavier vs. Providence. With the ACC for basketball, each week you have the choice of several name brands to fill those time-slots and increase the number of attractive matchups possible and limit the number of matchups that have to be sold as "ACC game of the week." With the Big East you get two UConn - Villanova games and then you're hunting. The conference won't let you pick UConn vs. someone; every week, so how do you maximize the value of that deal. Furthermore, if UConn, clearly hunting (as they must) for an exit plan leaves then what do you have? Is there a reason to pay a premium for that if you already can air a secondary Big Ten, Big XII, ACC or SEC matchup? That's the question the networks are going to have to answer when they set a value for the Big East inventory. The Big East will be the top-earning non FBS conference and probably earn more than the G5 conferences (which is why Independent/Big East is better than any G5 alignment; but worse than any P5 alignment); it might not be that $8-10M per team that many here expected/hoped they would hit. [/QUOTE]

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