Oregon and Washington are getting $30 million with $1 million increases per year. USC and UCLA are coming at full shares from the start.Wait? 16 members? They have 18.
Oregon and Washington are getting $30 million with $1 million increases per year. USC and UCLA are coming at full shares from the start.Wait? 16 members? They have 18.
But they are still members.Oregon and Washington are getting $30 million with $1 million increases per year. USC and UCLA are coming at full shares from the start.
I said around 70, you know maths and stuff. I see a lot of people downplaying what we will get, like all the media people like to poo poo on the big 12. They like to lowball our estimate and not include half the stuff they include in the B1G and SEC estimates. I have yet to see a single site estimate what our pay out will be after the new contract and the new playoff payout. not one, yet almost all of them estimate what that will be for the SEC and B1G. Half the people still use the report that came out a couple years ago showing we would be 5th after the new contract behind even the Pac12.Again the only one saying we are getting less is you. We added four new schools but each school is going to make more money, even though the contract says each school will make the same.
Can you show me one report that says we will be getting the $70 million you are suggesting, just one will do.
Big 12 paid 42.6M in 21-22Big 12: UCF to Receive Full Revenue Shares in 2025-2026
New additions could push annual revenue above $50Mwww.blackandgoldbanneret.com
Notice it says at the end of the contract, each of the original schools received $42 million not $45 million.
LOL its the Athletic so...........Wait? 16 members? They have 18.
Wait the athletic is a rag now?LOL its the Athletic so...........
The Beavs and Wazzou would like a word. Beyond them, we're all ecstatic about conference realignment and the current P2.Honestly I think your question is kinda backwards, the only group this actually hurts are student athletes with the crazy travel. It gets offset by NIL and amazing facilities but still hurts. For everyone else it’s a plus or neutral.
Only other group would be the fans that really want to attend every away game but that is a very very small group and is offset by the alums that live in the new realignment areas.
It is in my book. Mandel and his cronies are hacks, just like 90% of clickbait reporters and publications. Mandel and the Athletic Pac12 homers have been wrong on just about everything for the past 2+ years. They have an obvious bias hell their Iowa State reporter has been a Hawkeye forever, and is absolute garbage.Wait the athletic is a rag now?
You realize he was asking me about how big ten fans/alums feel about this right?The Beavs and Wazzou would like a word. Beyond them, we're all ecstatic about conference realignment and the current P2.
While we may have not liked their messaging immediately after OUT left (can’t really blaming them for doubting us at the time) they have pretty credible writers. Dochterman even wrote a pretty good in depth article just last week about Iowa State.It is in my book. Mandel and his cronies are hacks, just like 90% of clickbait reporters and publications. Mandel and the Athletic Pac12 homers have been wrong on just about everything for the past 2+ years. They have an obvious bias hell their Iowa State reporter has been a Hawkeye forever, and is absolute garbage.
A couple things the NFL does:Btw after talking with some people at an alumni event for Michigan on Saturday, I think this expanded playoff is going to really murder the regular season’s importance for a lot of the blue bloods even with the “bye” option and soon it’s going to hurt ratings.
Simply put going into next year a team like Michigan or OSU is likely to make the playoff even with 3 or 4 losses. Michigan could drop games to Texas, OSU, and Oregon and still pretty easily make the playoff just based on blue blood bias and pre season ranking. That makes those games start to matter a whole lot less when before if you dropped 1 you were potentially at risk of being left out. NFL gets away with it so there is clearly a path but I think game to game enthusiasm could take a hit once people realize that.
OK, I did overlook that. My point stands all the more. And I don't particularly care what B1G fans and alums think.You realize he was asking me about how big ten fans/alums feel about this right?
I don't have Athletic but the title sure is something:
And in that scenario, those 'top' 18 teams can go crazy and have to play only mostly themselves, with two 9 team divisions. They can beat up on each other and see how they like it. Winning their 'elite' conference with a 7-3 conference record should be what's in store, for a pretty good year, and often 'just above', or 'just below' a winning conference record would be the norm. Hack away and eat each other, for all I care.The Big 12 gets less of the playoff cut, but is still allowed in. That would continue.
My preference is something like #1, but with the top cut being whittled down to 16-18 schools. Iowa wouldn't make that cut, and Nebraska might not either. That would allow the remaining 50+ former P5 schools to reorganize geographically.
You would see the top division look like this:
OSU
Michigan
Penn State
Notre Dame
USC
Oregon
Texas
Oklahoma
Florida
Bama
Georgia
FSU
Clemson
Tennessee
Aggy
LSU
Miami
Auburn
Then everyone else is left in another division that can organize along geographical and historical lines. Maybe have the remaining 54 teams of the former P5 organize into 6 9 team divisions. Our division would be something like this:
ISU
Iowa
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Mizzou
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Okie State
I would prefer this to basically any arrangement ISU's ever been a part of.
I like your thought process. But I still wouldn't watch any of it! The TV execs can make their bed, and sleep in it, and slowly watch their resort community decline. It won't wind up how they would hope. I'm pretty sure.Honestly, me too. Compete with your actual peers, not the super-mega schools. But still big enough that people nationwide care. I'd miss the occasional App St over Michigan, or Boise over OU, but with the way things are changing those will become more rare I suppose.
I'd add Washington for sure, and one of Nubs or UCLA to make it 20 teams. Probably UCLA, just to have 4 teams on the west coast. They'd have 5 divisions of 4, take the 5 winners and 3 wildcards and have a huge playoff.
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There's your NFL-lite, right there. That's a TV exec's wettest dream.
11 game regular season (3 in your div, plus 2/4 of the other 4 divs). Plus 1 or 2 games out of league vs left behinds (e.g. Clemson vs SCar, Wash vs Wazzu, etc).
So you have 8 to 10 games a week, which matches your supply of prime networks and timeslots to maximize revenue. Make about $3B on the games, give each school $100M, and net a cool $1B every year.
Don't give me "someone has to lose" arguments. Which one of those fanbases and AD's is going to say "this is too hard for us, let's drop out and win games and only make $25M annual" - I will hang up and listen.
The argument "fans of other schools won't watch and ratings will be less than projected" - now that I won't argue. But I think the TV execs don't believe it and/or think its manageable or will change in their favor over time.
I still have an aversion to espn for what they tried to do (ruin the Big 12, and Pac 12), what they are doing, and what they will try to do in the future.This would be incredible, but I don't see a world where the top tier is that small. I bet it will be closer to 30 teams, maybe even 40.
Right now, they have a combined 34 teams. If they kick out any schools, I can only really foresee Vandy, Northwestern, & Rutgers getting chopped, but they'd easily backfill with ND, Clemson, & FSU.
I don't see a world where Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan State, etc. drop a level. At worst they'd be on the wrong end of "performance-based" payments, but that's it.
The big dogs, and the TV networks, know they can't cut off too much. They need to keep it national and the undisputed top level of CFB.
Agree. And who will make up the rules for this new playground? Oh yes, a board or committee favoring the P2 in most every way that matters financially? But not so much that it won't appear at least marginally equitable.You have to have enough teams in this premium league to not leave out the majority of the country, while also keeping fans interested. I am not sure 40 schools from the B10 and SEC plus a few others would do this. ISU fans are not going to start to watch and cheer for EIU, just because they are playing at the top level and ISU isn't. Those fans all around the country will stay and root for their team and it will take decades for them to move away from that.
For this to work you are going to have to find room for most of the current P5 schools and schools like Memphis or Boise St. that want to try to play at that level. It would not be difficult to come up with a set of standards for schools to use if they want to play at the highest level. Amount of money they are investing in football, attendance and other criteria could be used to see if they are big enough to get in the new league.
That tier of 50+ schools would collectively negotiate. There wouldn’t be conferences as we know them.There's no way to draw a strict midwest conference of 9 or 10 schools and have it be viable. Those states are all smaller population and don't produce enough D1 athletes. Same problem presents in gaining viewership. It'd be the Big 10 West in to no time flat.
That said, I'm all for regional-ish conference alignment, but there's got to be a little bit of overlap between the different divisions or whatever. Swap Iowa/Wisconsin for TCU/Baylor (barf) and Mizzou for Cincinnati and you might be talking.
You just keep digging this hole deeper and deeper, every link provided has shown that the B12 is going to peak out around $50 million, but you keep digging, "what about the new playoff money?" That money is going to be paid out to the conference of the teams in the playoff, not equally to the conferences. The B10 and SEC have ensured that they are going to get 8 to 9 teams a year into the playoff, while the ACC, B12 and maybe one smaller conference gets in the last 3 or 4 teams. So, the SEC and B10 is going to dwarf what the other two power conferences get in playoff money, the rich get richer and the ACC and B12 struggle to stay relevant.Big 12 paid 42.6M in 21-22
44M in 22-23.
Then there is the 10 month old ESTIMATE you quote in that article of 42M. Because the number has not been released yet. So I guess we could get less than the 2 previous years, although I dont believe our revenue has decreased year over year in a long time, even during Covid.
I guess you will have to point out where it says at the "end of the contract" as the only end of contract it talks about is our current one, not the new contract starting this year.
All I see is this, and notice it says could push it above 50M!! But the way I read it is with the new members joining which is this year!! Not the end of the new contract.
New additions could push annual revenue above $50M
Then there is this, I dont read it as at the end of the contract I read it as once everyone joins the amount will be finalized for all members as they say this will happen in 2025-26:
Once we get to the 2025-26 season, UCF — and the other 15 schools — get full drops. The final annual revenue total under the new media deal with ESPN and Fox would push into the range of $50 million per school. The new deal will run from 2025-31 and include a Grant of Rights provision.
And again this was 10 months ago before any new numbers for playoff etc came out, none of that is included in their estimate, they are only going on the old numbers.
Again believe what you want. But the actual payout for last year should drop soon and we will see if we get less than the last 2 years or more.