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Message: [QUOTE="SouthCampusHero, post: 284095, member: 957"] Whether you run a Jimmy Johns or an athletic department, isn't it nice to accurately forecast incoming revenue? Wouldnt that be nice? The BE does not offer an equal share of revenue per full-time member. The ACC, on the other hand, does. [LEFT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]Of the Big East's eight schools that compete in basketball and football, Syracuse had the lowest share at $7.5 million in 2009-10. The next lowest share was Louisville at $8.02 million. The Big East's highest share was given to West Virginia at $10,427,259, still more than $400,000 less than the lowest share in the ACC.[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]Gross said that equal revenue sharing in the ACC has its advantages and disadvantages.[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]"You want to be able to say, ‘This is what we know we can expect this year,'" Gross said. "But what I applaud in the Big East was that it was a competitive deal. So if you finish first, you got rewarded for being first, and there was a structure like that."[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000]For Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist and the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College in Massachusetts, equal revenue sharing is the better model — and not just because it offers more financial stability to members. Zimbalist said dividing revenue based on performance is inappropriate and goes against the amateur ideal of college sports.[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000][url]http://www.dailyorange.com/sports/acc-gross-profit-led-by-athletic-director-syracuse-joins-financially-stable-situation-in-acc-1.2646147?pagereq=2#.T6w-qKveCLI[/url][/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=arial][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]

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