zls44
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$22 million a year in 2014-15 is $2 million a team- for 11 teams.
The contract includes televising a conference title game. So expect them to, stupidly, go after a twelfth team.
That would drop the payout to $1.8 million per team. Add in the CBS money, that's between $165,000-250,000 more a year. Bottom line- its less money than UConn makes now from TV. By about a third. This isn't "what UConn is used to, so it isn't a big adjustment". It's less. Don't sugar coat it- this is a massive, massive problem, Nelson drama/idiocy notwithstanding.
What else it is, is way less than the threshold for SMU and Houston to leave the conference without paying an exit fee. I don't think they will- but they're so pissed off, they might do something irrational.
More than the C7 deal, I'm interested to see what the next steps are for an SEC/ACC Network. Sounds like Big East content could be included in either to provide more content/distribution. That would be...interesting.
Oh, did we mention bowl tie-ins? Put it this way, if you think the TV money sucks, wait until you see Birmingham, Memphis and Albuquerque fight for the right to host the Big East #1/2 slot.
The contract includes televising a conference title game. So expect them to, stupidly, go after a twelfth team.
That would drop the payout to $1.8 million per team. Add in the CBS money, that's between $165,000-250,000 more a year. Bottom line- its less money than UConn makes now from TV. By about a third. This isn't "what UConn is used to, so it isn't a big adjustment". It's less. Don't sugar coat it- this is a massive, massive problem, Nelson drama/idiocy notwithstanding.
What else it is, is way less than the threshold for SMU and Houston to leave the conference without paying an exit fee. I don't think they will- but they're so pissed off, they might do something irrational.
More than the C7 deal, I'm interested to see what the next steps are for an SEC/ACC Network. Sounds like Big East content could be included in either to provide more content/distribution. That would be...interesting.
Oh, did we mention bowl tie-ins? Put it this way, if you think the TV money sucks, wait until you see Birmingham, Memphis and Albuquerque fight for the right to host the Big East #1/2 slot.