You believe an OU-less and UT-less Big 12 will still make $30 mill per team per year in media payouts?
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You believe an OU-less and UT-less Big 12 will still make $30 mill per team per year in media payouts?
No one knows Gonzo. We’re not media economists or TV contract writing executives and lawyers.
Agreed. I'd personally be willing to make an offer for the TV rights with whatever random cash is collecting dust in my wallet and an old pair of Puma's I only use when it's ****** outside - good luck beating that, ESPN.
I actually think money will remain about where it is now. It will be a contingency in expediting OU's & UT's departure. All the new schools will take reduced shares obviously. If Amazon gets involved, it could be even more, but who knows if that will happen.
I’d expect no less than 25. ESPN is in a very bad position legally and desperately want to get OUT over to the SEC. instead of a huge payout to the Big 12 as a penalty, they are going offer a sweet contract as an incentive to get the Big 12 to minimize exit and GOR liabilities.
It's an assumed risk. These schools make like 7MM per in TV revenue and other than BYU loan their athletic departments millions every year. Cincy loans their AD like 25MM per. If they can get around 3 times what they currently make in TV revenue (reduced share) for 2 or 3 years it's worth the risk IMO.
Didn't BB himself say that with OuT and 50% of the media $$$ gone the per school media values were closer to $15 million?
It seems possible to me that ESPN's orchestration (or assistance) of the OU/UT exit may make them willing to keep the payouts up there for the expanded league (but almost certainly, less than they would have been had the conference remained intact).
Supposed to be $20 to $25 million with additions. The AAC schools can’t afford not to give it a try
He sure did and it was a stupid thing to say. What is the value of Indiana, Purdue and most of the schools in the big 10 compared to Ohio St., Michigan and Penn. St? Or the SEC schools without LSU, Alabama and the rest, is S. Carolina worth the same money to the league as Georgia or Florida? Not even close.
The value of the schools was based on their ratings, well 33 of the 38 games they looked at, both OU and UT played on tier one channels. If UT has such a draw for the ratings, why has the Longhorn Network drawn flies since it started? What matters is the tier 1st and then the teams 2nd. Put an ISU/OSU Big 12 game on Fox or ESPN and it will draw better than an OU/KU game or a UT/Baylor game.
The numbers will be public soon. I think you’ll be very surprised. Remember…new members will receive quite a bit less money for a good number of years…existing members will get very solid media checks for the foreseeable future. Those that stay will, anyway.
Remember, Bowlsby job is to make van argument for the greatest amount of damages possible. It’s entirely in the Big 12’s interest to inflate those numbers to the greatest extent possible.
He made those comments before OU/UT announced that they were leaving the league, so it nothing to do with any future lawsuits against both schools or ESPN.
I think he did it to suck up to OU/UT and show both that they were important to the league. But his comment came back to bite him in the ass.
I think that's incorrect. Further, I've seen a couple analysis that showed pretty clearly this was wrong. But that perception is certainly out there now and can't be pulled back.
Things are actually moving WAY faster than I'd expected...I think uncertainty is bad for everybody so my guess is the OUT settlement may be coming a LOT sooner than anyone expects. After that, things will really start getting exciting.
