(05-28-2016 12:19 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 05:55 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(05-27-2016 05:23 PM)trueeagle98 Wrote:  Loved all the cusa fans saying they wouldn't take a huge reduction in tv money. You could probably go back a grab dozens of posts from them claiming that theyd still get 500k or more per team. Hahahahaha

Prior to the January Virginia Pilot article, most were predicting the value would hold steady or maybe even go up a bit. A handful said it would go down a bit. Virtually nobody said it would be cut by half---and absolutely nobody thought it would be below $500K.

Attitudes didn't start changing until vey early this year. Most everyone realized they would be in for a big cut once the Virginia Pilot article said the revenue would be down. Then a second report a few months later by the Pilot said revenue would be down by about $600K (followed shortly by another piece revealing that the old contract had already been adjusted downward back in 2013---a fact CUSA officials had successfully kept under wraps until the tax documents were reviewed by a columnist). Even the most optimistic CUSA fans became pretty realistic about the new contract once the pieces to the puzzle began to come together in the press. That's why there is no big melt down on the CUSA board. They had almost 6 months to get used to the idea.

I said all along the value would depend on what Fox's long term plan was. If they wanted to truly compete with ESPN and make FS2 more viable I thought they might get $14 million maybe a bit more. If they were going to keep FS2 niche and not try to really compete with ESPN3 it would go down. Not bothering to bid, I didn't factor.

FOX keeping every possible tv window open until the Big Ten deal goes through is my guess.