The math of UConn's value in realignment

[nelsonmuntz]

Using ball park guesses (some just rumors), here are my per school estimates of what the ex-BE schools are going to be making, per year, over the next few years:

(all $ #'s in MM's)

TCU: $22
WVU: $22
Pitt: $19
Louisville: $19
Syracuse: $19
Rutgers: $25
Notre Dame: $7 (guesstimate for hoops only in ACC)
C7: $30 (probably more once the Tier 3's are factored in)
Boise: $10

In addition:

ESPN increased the value of the ACC contract by $4 per school for the existing 11 schools ($44), and adjusted the Big 12 deal by about $5 per school for the existing 8 schools ($40). It is also safe to assume that 5 additional schools in the C7 league (Butler, etc.) will get $4 per school.

That comes to $163MM for the departing schools that were part of the Big East pre-Syracuse/Pitt raid, PLUS a payoff of $104MM to the Big 12 and ACC to take all those schools, plus the cost of upgrading several basketball only programs like Butler and Xavier.

As for the MWC, who knows? ESPN has paid Boise about $10 per year for football only, and is rumored to be involved in reworking the TV contract with the MWC to make the MWC more attractive than the Big East, in order to take SMU, SDSU and Houston from the Big East. Lets ballpark the MWC getting an additional $30 per year for now. In total, this is another $40 per year.

In total, the cost of raiding the Big East will come to about $307 PER YEAR, most of which will be paid by ESPN.

ESPN's last offer to the NBE was $130MM for 9 football and 17 basketball programs.

In other words, UConn, USF and Cincinnati have a NEGATIVE value of $177 million.

ESPN has committed to pay an enormous amount of money to a total of 50 other schools in 4 different conferences, just so UConn, USF and Cincinnati will not have a conference home.

 

[Fishy]

As the flagship of the Four Quadrant Big Cluster F-ckerence, UConn has a much greater negative value than either USF or Cincy.

When you look at all the movement and the numbers, it really is amazing that we are where we are.

Our balls have been on Syracuse's chin for over a decade and they're getting paid. Rutgers, Pitt, Utah....basically useless and they're getting paid. There are meth labs run with more efficiency than Maryland runs their athletic department and they're getting paid. West Virginia and Louisville are barely universities by most standards and they're getting paid.

Did Augustus Storrs duck* the Devil's daughter or something? Can we kill a goat or a chicken and remove whatever curse we're living under? Did we build the campus on an indian burial ground?

There has to be something.

 

[Adios]

Our football program is too new to the FBS (or D1-A) scene.

 

[UCFBfan]

Doesn't CBS own the rights to the MWC?? How can ESPN be reworking the deal to make it more attractive to SMU, UH, etc....? Are they funding CBS too??

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Hell, I was all set to have a goat killed (for the benefit of our athletic program) but most of the board was against it. I believe the time has passed for this measure.

 

[ctchamps]

Hell, I was all set to have a goat killed (for the benefit of our athletic program) but most of the board was against it. I believe the time has passed for this measure.

didn't help the cubs.

 

[TRest]

Our football program is too new to the FBS (or D1-A) scene.

So decades of suck are valued more highly than a decade of meh? I guess so.


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[TouchdownHusky]

Time to start making life difficult for ESPN and its little campus. Just a little help from them would be the difference. And its not like UConn is Central Connecticut trying to become D1. They have been and have competed well in the process. They were in a BCS Bowl just two years ago.

 

[thatguyed]

Damn, l had the curry all set for that goat.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I'm not overly concerned. The way I see it, once the time travel guy at UConn gets it figured out we will end up in the B1G with PSU in 1990 and have more football titles than ND by 1995. Also, JC will take over the hoops program when John Wooden retires in 1975, and match his 14 national titles before he retires next spring.

 

[RS9999X]

Boise Revenue rumors

• $2.5 mil base (all sports)
• $500,000 per national Saturday appearance averages ($1.6 mil per year based on the last 5 years)
• 50% of their NCAA Conference media appearance money (all sports). Conference gets the other 50%.
• 50% of their bowl money with a $500,000 min for the Conference Championship and as MTN rep after expenses).

This 50% deal includes massive payoffs when Boise is the "best of the rest" and makes the playoff bowls. An estimated $10 mil for the fiesta and up to $15 mil for the playoff bowls would go directly to Boise coffers.

In a year they win the MTN they get $2.5 + $1.6 + an estimated $1.0 in NCAA units (over 6 years) and $2 mil in MTN Bowls Network appearance money after expenses and much more if its a bowl paying more than $2 mil a team.

They will get their $6.5 mil a year and better and some $10 mil windfalls along the way.

This is the incentive laden model UConn needs in the Mountain East. A CT Network as part of the deal and a UConn Media group of BUsiness School salesmen and Interns to build out a Network that is state of the art and a killer for streaming and state access with a healthy advertising stake and sales incentives. Make Newhouse eat its own lunch and vomit

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...tate-mountain-west-big-east-analysis/1801707/

A crappy MTN team will be lucky to get much more than the $2.5 mil base and a 1/12th share of 50% of the NCAA distributions that go to the MTN

 

[CL82]

Using ball park guesses (some just rumors), here are my per school estimates of what the ex-BE schools are going to be making, per year, over the next few years:

(all $ #'s in MM's)

TCU: $22
WVU: $22
Pitt: $19
Louisville: $19
Syracuse: $19
Rutgers: $25
Notre Dame: $7 (guesstimate for hoops only in ACC)
C7: $30 (probably more once the Tier 3's are factored in)
Boise: $10

In addition:

ESPN increased the value of the ACC contract by $4 per school for the existing 11 schools ($44), and adjusted the Big 12 deal by about $5 per school for the existing 8 schools ($40). It is also safe to assume that 5 additional schools in the C7 league (Butler, etc.) will get $4 per school.

That comes to $163MM for the departing schools that were part of the Big East pre-Syracuse/Pitt raid, PLUS a payoff of $104MM to the Big 12 and ACC to take all those schools, plus the cost of upgrading several basketball only programs like Butler and Xavier.

As for the MWC, who knows? ESPN has paid Boise about $10 per year for football only, and is rumored to be involved in reworking the TV contract with the MWC to make the MWC more attractive than the Big East, in order to take SMU, SDSU and Houston from the Big East. Lets ballpark the MWC getting an additional $30 per year for now. In total, this is another $40 per year.

In total, the cost of raiding the Big East will come to about $307 PER YEAR, most of which will be paid by ESPN.

ESPN's last offer to the NBE was $130MM for 9 football and 17 basketball programs.

In other words, UConn, USF and Cincinnati have a NEGATIVE value of $177 million.

ESPN has committed to pay an enormous amount of money to a total of 50 other schools in 4 different conferences, just so UConn, USF and Cincinnati will not have a conference home.

Or coming to a more logical conclusion, ESPN was willing to invest $177 million to protect it's investment in the ACC and to keep NBSsports from gaining a foothold. I don't think they give a rat's ass as to what happens to Connecticut, Cinci, and USF. In fact we know that UConn was the original ACC target with 'cuse.

 

[RS9999X]

The Mouse broadcasts up to 10 games a week. Someone parity minded would say one game from each conference. That isn't the way it works. Cincy and UConn were their lowest rated game this year on ABC? Well, we knew ratings were driving the bus. Televising UConn opens up space for a competitor to run with a better ratings attraction including UFC, NASCAR, Golf, WWE, etc. Heidi Klum Lingerie specials, etc.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Whaler,

See OP.