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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 202507, member: 27"] Let's talk about conference TV revenue. Specifically the Big East. The Pac 10 recently got $4 billion for 12 years. I have never seen it broken out into yearly revenue per school, so I tried to determine this based on the famous ESPN $1 billion offer for 9 years to the Big East that was turned down last summer. The existing BE contract pays the football schools double what the basketball schools get. If you assume that the new contract would have done the same, to get yearly revenue for each school, I believe you take the $111 million payout per year and divide it by 24. The basketball schools would then get one share each and the football schools two. Assuming all this is correct, the contract the Big East turned down would have paid the football schools $9.2 million annually and the basketball schools $4.6 million. Well over double what they are getting now but well below what the big conferences are getting. Assuming that Temple is added and Louisville leaves, which I think is a reasonable expectation, the net effect of all of the changes is that the Big East goes from being an 8 school football league to a 12 school football league, but there is really only one new all sports member (this also assumes Temple will play all sports...I have read reports indicating this may or may not happen but they would be crazy to not demand this and the Big East is in a poor bargaining position right now). Not sure how they will split revenue with the football only schools. I assume they will get more than the basketball schools but not as much as the all sports schools. If you split it down the middle and give the hoops schools 2 units, the football onlys 3 and the all sports 4, and the BE gets the same $1 billion offer, the breakdown of revenue changes as follows: basketball schools: $3.6 million football only schools: $5.6 million all sports schools: $7.2 million What does this mean? The Big East is going to need to have the offer they turned down last summer doubled ($2 billion) in order to get on roughly equal footing with the ACC. Some rough numbers to keep in mind... If the Big East gets a deal for $1.25 billion, the all sports schools get about $9.1 million annually. Given the smaller slices of revenue each school gets with the expansion for football, the Big East needs to get an extra $250 million to get back to close to the revenue levels of the turned down contract. If the Big East gets a deal for $1.5 billion, the all sports schools get $10.9 million annually. With the extra travel costs of the extra expanded conference, this is probably close to bringing the same value as the turned down contract. Scooch, do you have any prediction on what the Big East will end up getting for its TV revenue rights later this year? [/QUOTE]

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