From a USA TODAY article:

.....TV

All these games (including some bowls) will be shown on ESPN. It reportedly paid about $7.2 billion for the entire package.

WHERE DOES ALL THAT MONEY GO?

About 85 percent of it will go to the Big Five conferences. The other five FBS leagues will split the rest, but don't feel too badly for them. Most will be making about five times the amount they made with the BCS......

If that's $7.2 billion per year, then the G5 conferences get 15%, or about $30 million each if my math is right. In the MAC the would be $2 million+ for each school.

UT says it has 375 student athletes in 16 varsity sports. I'm not sure all of these are on scholarship, and some get partial scholarships. But using those numbers, there would be enough to pay each athlete up to$5,000 per year. That is the number some of the big schools are floating around.

Assuming the revenue stream stays steady, and the P5 schools don't vote the G5 out of the cash, schools like UT could be in a good spot. Sharing the money could be a very good reason for the MAC not to expand.

Please feel free to comment on my math.

$7.2 Billion per year? No, college football has not gotten that big yet.

Reportedly, it is $7+ Billion, over 12 years.

(08-10-2014 04:44 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  $7.2 Billion per year? No, college football has not gotten that big yet.

Reportedly, it is $7+ Billion, over 12 years.

That means each MAC school gets $200,000 a year. That doesn't sound right.

(08-10-2014 04:58 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(08-10-2014 04:44 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  $7.2 Billion per year? No, college football has not gotten that big yet.

Reportedly, it is $7+ Billion, over 12 years.

That means each MAC school gets $200,000 a year. That doesn't sound right.

I am sure we will find this out soon. The budget will reflect this in some fashion I would think?

(08-11-2014 08:55 AM)tampabayrocketfan Wrote:  

(08-10-2014 04:58 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(08-10-2014 04:44 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  $7.2 Billion per year? No, college football has not gotten that big yet.

Reportedly, it is $7+ Billion, over 12 years.

That means each MAC school gets $200,000 a year. That doesn't sound right.

I am sure we will find this out soon. The budget will reflect this in some fashion I would think?

$7.2 Billion = $7,200,000,000 divided by 12 years = $600,000,000 per year total

$600,000,000 multiplied by .15 (15% share for G5) = $90,000,000 G5 per year

$90,000,000 divided 5 G5 conferences = $18,000,000 for MAC per year

$18,000,000 divided by 13 MAC football programs = $1,384,615 per year for UT

It looks to me as if UT should get $1.38 million per year assuming that all the information in this thread about the deal is correct AND assuming I haven't screwed up the math. I've laid it all out step by step in case anybody is willing to proof my calculations.

PS: if there are 375 athletics on scholarship, the amount UT gets per year would come to about $3,692 per athlete.

Why is the money divided by conference instead of individual school? Shouldn't each school get the same even if universities in the big five get more?

This doesn't mean squat. Yes, UT and other GO5 schools might get 2 or 3 or 4x more money (or whatever the actual number is), but I bet the P5 is getting 10x. So the gap is just widening. Won't change a thing.