rferry Wrote:But with a 17-team league, any big money turns into small money once split 17 ways. And if it's bowl and other football-specific revenue, then Providence sees none of it.
The football-specific bowl revenue is currently $21,888,675, or if split 8 ways evenly, $2,736,084 each.
Memphis with the Liberty Bowl would have made the league bowl revenue $23,485,675, split 9 ways, $2,609,519.
Making a total loss in revenue of $126,565 per team.
Next year's TV contract is supposedly worth $15 million. Split between 8 teams evenly, that is $1.875 million. Split between 9 teams evenly, that is $1.667 million.
A loss of $208,000 per team.
Between the two, that is a loss of approximately $335K.
Now throw out the $200-250K most BE football teams are paying a Division FCS team to come to their place to play for a fifth non-conference game and the loss in football-specific revenue appears to be basically between $85-135K.
That is much less than the $500K loss in ticket revenues that you thought Georgetown could easily do without in the case of a split.
And in terms of athletic dollars, all of the football schools can more readily absorb such a loss than can Georgetown (one of the better bb schools).
As for the bb schools, approximately $28 million divided 16 ways is $1.75 million and divided 17 ways is $1.64 million.
The NCAA units of $19,391,604 divided 16 ways is $1.21 million whereas divided 17 ways is $1.14 million.
That is a total loss for all of the BE schools of $170K.
Seems like a small price to pay to keep those ticket sales high and not to lose a huge proportion of the bb TV contract due to a split.
16 or 17? A clusterf#@% is still a clusterf#@%.
Either the loss in revenue of even $170K (or $255-305K for the football schools) is too much for the BE teams to absorb (which seems preposterous to me) or something else is preventing consideration of expansion to 17.
Cheers,
Neil
P.S., I'm counting on you to check the math above, since I am doing this early Saturday morning after being out to a party last night.