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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 5520544, member: 622"]
The point is that the BTE would need to generate the equivalent of $10MM-$15MM per school per year to move $5MM to each school annually.  That number is just to make the expected share from PE, it would require doubling that number minimum to repay the investment of the PE firm.  Schools like tOSU and UM will carry the heavy load while schools like Rutgers, Maryland, Northwestern, Indiana and Illinois will not raise revenues significantly enough to pay their respective ways.  The power schools should do the marketing themselves and keep the revenue in lieu of sharing it.

Assuming the lower half could improve their standing and win conference championships  in hoops and football (the winning cures all ills theory), this would only lessen the current powers, trading one hot fan base for another hot fan base.  Where is there that much new money available to the conference to warrant the risk and costs of the BTE?  If it is readily there, then the power schools are still better off developing it themselves, reaping their own rewards in lieu of propping up Rutgers.  Rutgers runs in the red $30MM-$50MM annually, for three decades or more.  They do not have the potential growth promised by the PE.

I respectfully disagree that the universities don't know how to run businesses.  While the academics may drain the business side, the BOT of each university is made up of generally successful people who oversee the university.  Further, many universities, especially larger research universities (the majority of B1G universities if not all), are experts in developing products and technology which is then marketed for maximum benefit.
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