(04-12-2017 02:24 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  The Big East does not have a media contract paying 30 million per team. They are much more close to the AAC than they are to the lowest P5 conference.

The AAC is making like 2 mil per team and the Big East is making like 5 mil per team.

You mean, "per school", but actually thinking about it "per team" would start to correct your comparison. The AAC is making that for 23 (soon to be 23) teams, while the Big East is making that for 10 teams.

But the media value to a conference of a FB and BBall team are not equal, since the NCAA tournament takes a big bite of the media value of BBall, while most of the media value of FB goes to the conferences.

So in reality, earning $5m per school for basketball is pretty close to earning $30 for football and basketball. The value of BBall in a P5 school is in the range of 20% to 30% of the total contract, and 20% to 30% of $30m is $6m-$9m. So it's not quite there, but it's a hell of a lot closer than earning $2m for FB & BBall, so something like $0.4m to $0.6m for AAC BBall ... or maybe $0.8m, if the relative value of BBall to the AAC is substantially greater than for a Power conference.

This is the whole point of the argument above saying that the two conference contracts were based on "prospective" values, since the values themselves say that Big East BBall is worth more than AAC BBall and FB combined, and that implies that Big East BBall is worth a bucketload more than AAC BBall. Making the question arguable at all requires an argument that sets aside the implications of the contract values.