MAC 13 year TV deal w/ESPN

[B1GEast]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...24666567/mac-gets-new-13-year-television-deal

 

[dayooper]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...24666567/mac-gets-new-13-year-television-deal

Yes, but is there a GoR to break once Buffalo goes to the Big10? Otherwise, this isn't conference realignment news.

 

[pj]

"the deal is believed to be worth significantly more than the previous setup worth a reported $1 million annually" ... So the MAC is now making as much or more than the AAC's $2 million annually?

 

[whaler11]

"the deal is believed to be worth significantly more than the previous setup worth a reported $1 million annually" ... So the MAC is now making as much or more than the AAC's $2 million annually?

I think the MAC's deal was literally 1 million. Not one million per team.

They probably got to 3 or something.

 

[Fishy]

The AAC will be at about $1.5M per team - the MAC will be short of that.

They're also tied to it for 13 years whereas the AAC has only six years remaining.

 

[zls44]

@JFowlerCBS: Told MAC's deal with ESPN puts the conference "on par" with Group of 5 peers financially. Previous deal had them out of range.



Great we make roughly as much tv money as EASTERN MICHIGAN

 

[Point6]

A name change may be in order:

 

[zls44]

Jeremy Fowler is bad at math...the deal works out to $600,000 per team, per year, for 13 years.

 

[dayooper]

@JFowlerCBS: Told MAC's deal with ESPN puts the conference "on par" with Group of 5 peers financially. Previous deal had them out of range.



Great we make roughly as much tv money as EASTERN MICHIGAN

That's bad, if true. The EMUs are the laughingstock of D1 sports teams in Michigan.

 

[DSquiz]

@McMurphyESPN: More info from industry source on new MAC/ESPN deal: worth 10M/year over last 10 years

So if they stay at 12 (after UMass leaves) that's 0.83 million per school per year.

 

[pj]

@McMurphyESPN: More info from industry source on new MAC/ESPN deal: worth 10M/year over last 10 years

How much is it worth over the next 10?

 

[upstater]

How much is it worth over the next 10?

He means $10m a year over the last 10 years of the new 13 year contract. If true, Aresco and the AAC were hosed beyond what even I imagined.

 

[UConn Dan]

He means $10m a year over the last 10 years of the new 13 year contract. If true, Aresco and the AAC were hosed beyond what even I imagined.

agree we were hosed but wasn't that NBCs fault for low-balling? I think the terms of the original big east contract were that espn could match another networks offer (both in terms if money and number of games aired) but not alter it?

I guess it could be Aresco / big east presidents fault during solo negotiations with espn before taking bids on open market. I wonder how much espns initial offer was (I'm not referring to the offer prior to the ACC taking Cuse and Pitt)?

 

[B1GOSU]

#MACtion

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Some of these schools will drop football in 10 years. It is hard to even stay FBS at this revenue level.

 

[B1GOSU]

Some of these schools will drop football in 10 years. It is hard to even stay FBS at this revenue level.

Then they would drop all sports. Those away football games at P5 schools more or less pay for the majority of the entire athletic department budget for the year.

Basketball would be eliminated before football.

 

[upstater]

Then they would drop all sports. Those away football games at P5 schools more or less pay for the majority of the entire athletic department budget for the year.

Basketball would be eliminated before football.

Nope. Looking at MAC budgets, schools are subsidizing the $28m AD budget with $19-20m of school money. Take a school like Buffalo. Before it added football, it's budget was $8m. After adding it, it only took 12 years for it to reach $28m. Yet a school like, say, Rhode Island, is still at $8m.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Then they would drop all sports. Those away football games at P5 schools more or less pay for the majority of the entire athletic department budget for the year.

Basketball would be eliminated before football.

That must be why so many more schools play D1 football than play D1 basketball.