I know there is a huge cost of living difference and there were several other larger monetary figures mentioned in that article, but this comparison caught my eye.
"By comparison, the SEC is headquartered in a 25-year-old, two-story building in Birmingham, Ala. The rent costs the conference $318,000 a year.
The Big Ten Conference office makes its primary home in suburban Chicago and also, has a satellite office in New York. Annual rent: $1.5 million.
The Pac-12 Conference headquarters cost the conference $6.9 million in rent in the last reported fiscal year. They're also carrying $11.7 million in deferred rent."
Pac-12 is spending nearly 22X more than the SEC and 4.6X more than the Big Ten in rent alone.
$6.9 million in rent and $11.7 million in deferred rent! Ridiculous.