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Message: [QUOTE="atom58, post: 5284858, member: 7262"] About that FY 2023-2024 conference revenue story, if you take the $711.4 million ACC number divided by 14.5 = $49.1 million while the $493.8 million Big 12 number divided by 12 = $41.2 million. The 14.5 was 14 full members at the time plus a one-half share for ND. The 12 number would be the ten full time members of the Big 12 at that time plus half shares for the four G5 teams that came in. Note this number is greater than the stated ACC payouts as the Conference takes $$ off the top to run their operations before distributing the remainder to the schools. We really should divide after operating expenses have been deducted and operating expenses vary from year to year and conference to conference. I also recall that the conference payouts do not use the same metric or measuring stick. The Big 10 included gate receipts in theirs, expanding their number, maybe the only conference to do that. (I read they did that several or more years ago and suspect they still do.) Like others have said, the traditional fiscal year (FY) in business is from July 1st of one year to June 30th of the next. It's a little different in government. I think the State of Florida and USG has a FY going from October 1st to September 30th. Also, I recall reading that after the Big 12 went back to 12 schools again with the addition of BYU and the three AAC schools, the pro rata portion of their contracts was modified to give them full support only with the addition of P5 schools, but they cleared that bar with the addition of the four PAC12 schools a year later and were not caught. This is what I remember, anyway. I have also read that ESPN can renegotiate their ACC contract should the conference fall below 15 schools (counting ND) and that was probably another reason for the expansion push, along with ND supporting Cal Berkeley and Stanford, two of the best academic schools outside the Ivy League. [/QUOTE]

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