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Message: [QUOTE="aburks41, post: 4657119, member: 4580"] Funny enough, basketball actually generates [I]more[/I] money than football. The CFP and bowls generates $670M, while March Madness is over $1B. However, 100% of the CFP revenue goes to the conferences, while ONLY 15% of the NCAAT revenue gets distributed back to conferences. The other 85% is used to subsidize non-revenue D1, D2, and D3 sports. If the distribution onus was flipped to football, the old Big East would still be alive. Each tournament credit would be worth $10M-12M instead of the $2M it’s worth right now, meaning that our tournament run this year would have generated $60M-72M in credits rather than $12M. How long will it be until the power conferences make their own basketball tournament? 15% of $1B is only $150M. Could a P5-only tournament generate more than $150M in TV revenue each year? Because that’s all it will take for those greedy SOB’s to start a movement to split. [/QUOTE]