Not saying this will happen and definitely not saying this would necessarily be the best thing.
But!
I am just saying this would be pretty darn cool, if it could go through.
Setup:
Team payouts:
Total payout to all teams combined (not including TV revenue): $620 million
So the two teams that make it to the National Championship would receive $61.25 million for their conference.
Here is the breakdown for payouts for each of the conferences with my bracket below without T.V. revenue added in:
In MILLIONS of $$$
ACC: $36.5
Big 12: $190:wideeyed:$19million per school!
Big East $16.5
Big Ten: $85.5
CUSA: $22.5
MAC: $14.25
MWC: $13.5
PAC 12: $54
SEC: $142.5
Sun Belt: $6.75
WAC: $6
Independents: $9
D1AA: $23
Adding in T.V. Revenue:
I'll simply do it like this, the NCAA basketball tournament is about $500million annually for 67 basketball games. I will simply double it and add 20% because football always makes more than basketball and there are twice as many games (I personally thing it would be closer to 1.75 billion but I'm going to keep this conservative). So the T.V. contract(s) would equal about 1.2billion a YEAR for this tournament. Make it evenly spread out among every team and that is another $9.375 million for each team.
Adding the $9.375 million to the average amount a team would make based on their conference results would be $14.2 million PER YEAR EVERY YEAR! And a year like this when the Big 12 would do extremely well... Iowa State would get about $28million. Not too shabby if I say so myself!
NOW TO THIS YEARS BRACKET!
Notable First Round Games:
Big XII
Montana State @ Iowa
Wyoming @ Nevada
Wake Forest @ Louisville
Navy @ Toledo
Northern Iowa @ Temple
UCONN @ SDSU
Minnesota @ Cincinnati
Airforce @ North Dakota State
My bracket that I filled out (and what I used for the revenue breakdown by conference):
Thoughts? It took me about 3 hours to do all this :SLEEP: (Starting at 12am) so I would appreciate some compliments! :yes:
But!
I am just saying this would be pretty darn cool, if it could go through.
Setup:
- Seeds 1-25: Used with BCS Rankings
- Seeds 26-128: Used the Sagarin Computer Rankings
- Top 8 teams in Div 1AA would fill in the 8 teams needed for the bracket (just for more Cinderella drama). If those schools refused, Seeds 1-8 would get a bye.
- First roundwould be played at the higher seed's home field.
- Two more Non BCS Bowl sites would be added to make it a nice round 32 (preferably the Ice Bowl in Cleveland or Buffalo and a bowl in the new L.A. NFL stadium). Which would all get a game the second round and all but 4 would get a second game.
- Final Four would be at the current BCS Bowl sites
- NCG would be bid out, much like the SuperBowl.
- Revenue split down the middle after applicable hosting costs to each game participant. (Then revenues would most likely go to conferences which would split the pie in their own way)
- TV Schedule would be much like the NCAA BB Tourney. But only on Thursday/Friday/Saturday for the first few rounds.
- Season would only be 10 games long + a conference championship week followed by a BYE week, then the tournament begins. IT WOULD WOULD PERFECTLY!
Team payouts:
- Let us take the very average 0.75 million per team paid out for each first round game. .75million*128 = 96million paid out on total. (This number comes from current lower tier bowl games)
- Second round double it for 1.5 million * 64 teams = 96 million. (Current Mid Tier Bowl games)
- Third round double it again for 3Million * 32 teams = 96 million. (Current Upper Mid Tier)
- Sweet Sixteen would probably up the ante a bit and go 8 million per so 8million*16 = 128 million (Upper Tier bowl games)
- Elite 8 would bump it up again to about 12 million per so 12million * 8 = 96 million (In between Upper Tier and BCS)
- Final four would bump up the payouts to a cool 18 million per team so 18million * 4 = $72 Million (Current BCS)
- National Championship is the same as the Final Four so $36 million. (Current BCS)
Total payout to all teams combined (not including TV revenue): $620 million
So the two teams that make it to the National Championship would receive $61.25 million for their conference.
Here is the breakdown for payouts for each of the conferences with my bracket below without T.V. revenue added in:
In MILLIONS of $$$
ACC: $36.5
Big 12: $190:wideeyed:$19million per school!
Big East $16.5
Big Ten: $85.5
CUSA: $22.5
MAC: $14.25
MWC: $13.5
PAC 12: $54
SEC: $142.5
Sun Belt: $6.75
WAC: $6
Independents: $9
D1AA: $23
Adding in T.V. Revenue:
I'll simply do it like this, the NCAA basketball tournament is about $500million annually for 67 basketball games. I will simply double it and add 20% because football always makes more than basketball and there are twice as many games (I personally thing it would be closer to 1.75 billion but I'm going to keep this conservative). So the T.V. contract(s) would equal about 1.2billion a YEAR for this tournament. Make it evenly spread out among every team and that is another $9.375 million for each team.
Adding the $9.375 million to the average amount a team would make based on their conference results would be $14.2 million PER YEAR EVERY YEAR! And a year like this when the Big 12 would do extremely well... Iowa State would get about $28million. Not too shabby if I say so myself!
NOW TO THIS YEARS BRACKET!
Notable First Round Games:
Big XII
- Colorado @ Iowa State
- Bowling Green @ Texas
- Troy @ Kansas State
- Western Kentucky @ Missouri
- Idaho @ Baylor
- Syracuse @ Texas Tech
- Kansas @ Ohio State
- Fresno State @ Texas A&M
- Colorado State @ Oklahoma
- Memphis @ Oklahoma State
Montana State @ Iowa
Wyoming @ Nevada
Wake Forest @ Louisville
Navy @ Toledo
Northern Iowa @ Temple
UCONN @ SDSU
Minnesota @ Cincinnati
Airforce @ North Dakota State
My bracket that I filled out (and what I used for the revenue breakdown by conference):
Thoughts? It took me about 3 hours to do all this :SLEEP: (Starting at 12am) so I would appreciate some compliments! :yes:
