Reduction in TV deal?
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just another reason for a Jump to another conference like AAC. also as a Marylander like the drivable games to temple, Navy , more money and slightly better rep.Tying in multiple treads, with big 12 having not having a championship game , would like to see cusa delete our two worst teams and drop to ten teams and Allow us to schedule more . I know it's a pipe dream but feel that pay divide is coming and we need to make it a P6 not P5.
wow.......... wonder if that changes our stance on paying full stipends?
"Old Dominion and the other 13 Conference USA schools apparently will have to make do with about $500,000 less in television revenue next season.
The two networks paid the league more than $14 million per year – about $1.17 million per school – for the past six years. Although the new contracts haven’t been finalized, negotiations are nearing completion, sources said.
SEC schools each received about $34 million in revenue from TV contracts, the College Football Playoff and the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 2014-2015. Conference USA schools received about $2.5 million in similar outside revenue."
"Old Dominion and the other 13 Conference USA schools apparently will have to make do with about $500,000 less in television revenue next season.
The two networks paid the league more than $14 million per year – about $1.17 million per school – for the past six years. Although the new contracts haven’t been finalized, negotiations are nearing completion, sources said.
SEC schools each received about $34 million in revenue from TV contracts, the College Football Playoff and the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 2014-2015. Conference USA schools received about $2.5 million in similar outside revenue."
I remember a story line in an old newspaper comic strip. The main character, a rich super villain, devised a plan to steal all the money in the world. The plan worked except that a rural farm boy would not let go of the single dollar bill he kept safely hidden in his mattress. The evil mastermind cried because he didn't get the last dollar.
Sounds a lot like the SEC, doesn't it?
Sounds a lot like the SEC, doesn't it?
More than anything, this is just bad timing. The league's contract is up at a time when the business model MAY be changing, with all of this "cord cutter" and "a la carte" talk.
The league will get less, but so will the other leagues as their deals expire. The smart thing to do is to try to get synced up, because (the Big 10 is up next year and will then get synced) all the deals will next expire in the middle of the next decade, when, IMHO, the next "Great Realignment" will happen.
(Also remember that, to settle a bogus lawsuit, the league pretty much gave the championship game rights to ESPN. That deal is over so now we can add our most important game into the rights package.)
The league will get less, but so will the other leagues as their deals expire. The smart thing to do is to try to get synced up, because (the Big 10 is up next year and will then get synced) all the deals will next expire in the middle of the next decade, when, IMHO, the next "Great Realignment" will happen.
(Also remember that, to settle a bogus lawsuit, the league pretty much gave the championship game rights to ESPN. That deal is over so now we can add our most important game into the rights package.)
Yeah, some is bad timing, and some is well...........we resemble the original sunbelt in many ways as far as a conference. The viewing area strategy when adding teams didn't work.....makes it sad that the MAC of all conferences will be making more. That part I don't understand at all.
