INSANE SEC payout

[MUCO68]

$777.8 MIILLION dollars made by the SEC gives each school $55 MILLION!!! I think they'll be at the top of the food chain for a long time...I haven't seen the numbers for the Big 10.

 

[GreenDuke]

Where we are seeing the impact of the conference leading the pack in annual payout is non football sports. As an example it’s no surprise the league has lifted their profile in men’s basketball in terms of coaching hires and facilities. You can see it in the results, net rankings, and the relative competitiveness of their teams. Women’s teams are also greatly benefiting.

 

[The Real SamC]

Note that this is under the old agreement, shared with CBS and ESPN. The new contract, with just ESPN (and ABC) and which includes Texas and Oklahoma, which kicks in in 24, will be for vastly more money and result in yet higher payouts.

Why?

- The SEC is simply where, what, 90% of the best players play.
- The SEC region is the part of the country where college football just matters more to ordinary people’s lives. Way more.
- The SEC can yield TV ratings on a nationwide basis. The other conferences really cannot.

Marshall relevance?

Always remember that, in CUSA and in the SBC, this monster sucks 99.9% of the oxygen out of the room. Our conference mates play in a world where they are lucky to get a mention. We only have WVU, a permanently mediocre program in a far off wide spot in the road hole of a town, which has never, and will never win at anything.

It is our greatest advantage.

 

[Pioneer_PA]

They invent ways to spend money to justify it, too

 

[MichiganHerd]

B1G was at $769MM for 2020, with per team payout of $54.3MM. Not sure if they've released numbers for 2021 yet, but likely will be close to the same, or a little higher.

 

[HerdFB1]

how does this compare to Marshall $ with CUSA?

 

[The Real SamC]

how does this compare to Marshall $ with CUSA?

Numbers are from before the current realignment:

ACC - $17M
Big 10 - $34M
Big 12 - $20M *
Pac 12 - $21M
THE AMERICAN!!!!!!!! - $7M
CUSA - $500K
MAC - $600K
MWC - $4M
SBC - $500K
Notre Dame - $15M (yes, that is right UND would make MORE money if it joined a league, its TV deal is about being on NBC every home week, regardless of record or opponent, not $$)

* In the Big 2, Little 8, each school retains one football game and three basketball games to sell for themselves. Texas gets $10M per year from ESPN for the Longhorn Network; Oklahoma gets $8M from Sinclair (Bally's Sports), and each of the Little 8 get about $800K from ESPN for ESPN Plus.

College football playoff - Each P5 league gets $67M to split between the teams; each G5 league gets $18.4M to split between the teams. Notre Dame gets a lesser share of the ACC's $$.

 

[HerdFB1]

I am surprised that MWC pays out $4M vs. $500k other G5s. I would expect a smaller spread & have SBC closer to AAC & MWC

 

[The Real SamC]

I am surprised that MWC pays out $4M vs. $500k other G5s. I would expect a smaller spread & have SBC closer to AAC & MWC

Remember that half of the MWC teams are the largest program in their state, its just that their states are smaller (but growing) and the rest have only the Pac 12 to worry about. That is different from being in the east.

As to the SBC, don't let fascination with a shiny new toy cloud your judgement. Just like CUSA, the rest of the SBC lives in the giant shadow cast by the SEC, SEC2B, and/or ACC. And, except for us and USM, all of the SBC was I-AA within the last 10 years, with little to no TV presence at all. Marshall traded off a POS Chevy for a good Buffalo-made Toyota. But we didn't buy a Lexus.

 

[HerdFB1]

It will be interesting to how much the new SBC revenue will be when they renew their TV contracts.

 

[The Real SamC]

And next up for the $$ is the Big 10. Current deal between Fox and ESPN, with CBS getting some basketball games, expires after the 23 season, which is when the SEC game of the week moves to ABC from CBS.

Leaving CBS with nothing to show on Saturdays. So everybody is interested.

CBS has to get a share, or its golf, motorcross and I Love Lucy reruns every Saturday in the fall.

Fox, which owns half of the Big 10 Network, and which would be left with only the “Big” 12 Leftovers and the Pac 12, which nobody much cares about, wants to renew badly.

ESPN is, well, ESPN. They want everything.

NBC, which is probably leaving NASCAR after the 24 season, would love to have a Notre Dame late afternoon game followed by a Big 10 game doubleheader. And it has $$ to spend.

$100M/year seems to be what the Big 10 will end up with.

IMHO, CBS made a big mistake walking away from the SEC. Now they are just going to have to pay about the same money in a panic sale, for a far lesser product with no relevance outside its own region, unlike the SEC which has a national following.