Overall the American teams come out with the most across the board. Somewhere around $6 million each including TV, etc. In CUSA ECU only received about $ 1 Million overall.

for the next 4 years, UConn/Cincy/USF are in the absolute best spot of any G5 program...the American's war chest of entry/exit fees, and abandoned NCAA credits is split 60-40 (old/new schools)

TV money - 1.82 million
football money - 1.28 million
basketball money - 1.982
war chest money - 4 million

or 9.1 million for UConn/Cincy/USF this year.

6.1 for the rest of us (sans Navy)

(04-23-2015 10:52 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  How the F are we behind CUSA? RPI? That's disgusting.

Because we finished the year ranked as the better football conference. Thats how the money is divided up. Where have you been?....living under a rock? This is nothing new. Everybody knew this was coming.

(04-23-2015 12:57 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:52 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  How the F are we behind CUSA? RPI? That's disgusting.

Because we finished the year ranked as the better football conference. Thats how the money is divided up. Where have you been?....living under a rock? This is nothing new. Everybody knew this was coming.

Keeping beating that horse, you'll be back to last before long, like in 2013. Probably next season, since the Sun Belt has found a winner in Georgia Southern.

Still, pretty sad that you couldn't get the NY6 bowl with the best year the conference has had or will have.

Edit: Lol. Based on the RPI rankings C-USA loves to pound into the sand, The American finished 8th in RPI Index, with 20.81 (SEC was 31.56) and C-USA finished 9th with 20.34, a difference of .47 in favor of the AAC.

Meanwhile, in 2013 the AAC finished 6th, with 22.14 and C-USA finished 11th with... 17.90, a difference of 4.24 points...

Keeping Louisville in mind, and easily trading Rutgers for ECU, the AAC averages a 7th place finish (including Independents) with 21.24 RPI index whereas C-USA averages 9.5, with a 19.12 RPI index. And Navy comes in this year, which will raise that average whereas C-USA loses one of it's better teams in UAB.

It took down years from UCF, Houston, Cincinnati, Tulsa, and USF (emphasis on years, in this case) for C-USA's best year with this lineup to come oh so close to beating the AAC.

You should be so proud.

(04-23-2015 10:57 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:52 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  How the F are we behind CUSA? RPI? That's disgusting.

Because you get something like 1 million per team.

They have 14, we had 11 (last season)

They have 14, we had 11 (last season)
WRONG, has absolutely nothing to do with the number of teams in a conference!

(04-23-2015 04:48 PM)ODU Oldtimer Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:57 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:52 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  How the F are we behind CUSA? RPI? That's disgusting.

Because you get something like 1 million per team.

They have 14, we had 11 (last season)

They have 14, we had 11 (last season)
WRONG, has absolutely nothing to do with the number of teams in a conference!

you get 300k per team (assuming they meet APR requirements)

I was wrong on the amount, though...

http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/re...stribution

This is some BS. We need to blow up this conference and start all over.

(04-23-2015 12:57 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:52 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  How the F are we behind CUSA? RPI? That's disgusting.

Because we finished the year ranked as the better football conference. Thats how the money is divided up. Where have you been?....living under a rock? This is nothing new. Everybody knew this was coming.

I'm wondering if we were so close together that the #2 and #3 performance money was combined and split between CUSA and the AAC. The difference between CUSA and the AAC was 1.1 million. G5 conferences are guaranteed 1 million per team with a maximum of 12 million. So, one million of that difference between CUSA and the AAC was directly attributable to us having 11 teams and CUSA having 13 teams. That means the performance difference was only worth $100K to CUSA. Maybe the performance money gets divided a little differently if two conferences are virtually tied.

(04-23-2015 10:42 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:12 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  How much of that 20.7 million belongs to Boise?

6 million of the 20.7 was awarded to the MW because Boise claimed the G5 access bowl slot. The MW revenue distribution system allows the winning team to keep half the 6mil. So, Boise gets 3 million + 1/12th of the remaining 17.7 million.

So, in that scenario, it would mean that Boise St. actually received more from the CFP than the average ACC and Big Ten teams.

Boise St. = $4.475 million ($3 mil plus $1.75[1/12th of $17.7mil])

ACC = $4.085 mil ($57.2 divided by 14)
Big Ten = $4.378 mil ($61.3 divided by 14)

And, that's assuming that Florida St. and Ohio St. didn't get larger shares.

Also, note that the average Big 12 institution would bring home $6.74 million in CFP revenue ($67.4 mil divided by 10). THAT is another reason why the Big 12 isn't expanding anytime soon.

(04-23-2015 10:41 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:29 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blo...ml?ana=twt

Only $$$ from CFP:
Southeastern Conference: $71.4 million
Pac-12 Conference: $68.9 million
Big 12 Conference: $67.4 million
Big Ten Conference: $61.3 million
Atlantic Coast Conference: $57.2 million
Mountain West Conference: $20.7 million
Conference USA: $15.2 million
American Athletic Conference: $14.1 million
Mid-American Conference: $12 million
Sun Belt Conference: $11.5 million
Independents: $2.8 million

Hence this >>>

Brett McMurphy @McMurphyESPN
Bronco Mendenall tells @gregwrubell BYU needs to get in Power 5 league “in 3 years. It has to happen w/in 3 years"

The power schools only outearn the G5 schools by ~5 to 1 in CFP money.

It's more like ~10 to 1 in TV contract money.

(04-23-2015 05:13 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 12:57 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:52 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  How the F are we behind CUSA? RPI? That's disgusting.

Because we finished the year ranked as the better football conference. Thats how the money is divided up. Where have you been?....living under a rock? This is nothing new. Everybody knew this was coming.

I'm wondering if we were so close together that the #2 and #3 performance money was combined and split between CUSA and the AAC.

Nope, we were #3 and got #3 money.

(04-23-2015 07:30 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:41 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:29 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blo...ml?ana=twt

Only $$$ from CFP:
Southeastern Conference: $71.4 million
Pac-12 Conference: $68.9 million
Big 12 Conference: $67.4 million
Big Ten Conference: $61.3 million
Atlantic Coast Conference: $57.2 million
Mountain West Conference: $20.7 million
Conference USA: $15.2 million
American Athletic Conference: $14.1 million
Mid-American Conference: $12 million
Sun Belt Conference: $11.5 million
Independents: $2.8 million

Hence this >>>

Brett McMurphy @McMurphyESPN
Bronco Mendenall tells @gregwrubell BYU needs to get in Power 5 league “in 3 years. It has to happen w/in 3 years"

The power schools only outearn the G5 schools by ~5 to 1 in CFP money.

It's more like ~10 to 1 in TV contract money.

CFP money doesn't include bowl money, including the Contract Bowl money.

(04-23-2015 07:44 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 05:13 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 12:57 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:52 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  How the F are we behind CUSA? RPI? That's disgusting.

Because we finished the year ranked as the better football conference. Thats how the money is divided up. Where have you been?....living under a rock? This is nothing new. Everybody knew this was coming.

I'm wondering if we were so close together that the #2 and #3 performance money was combined and split between CUSA and the AAC.

Nope, we were #3 and got #3 money.

The numbers don't fit the formula. CUSA would get 1 million more than the AAC just for having at least 12 teams (rather than just 11 like the AAC). The performance pool was at least 11 million or $733K a share. If you are correct, CUSA had 4 shares (2nd place) while we only got 3 shares (3rd place)---an additional difference of $733K. There should have been a total difference of 1.733 million. Instead , the difference is 1.1 million---which is only 100K over the 1 million extra base the conference got for having 12 teams.

Yeah thats a little weird.

(04-23-2015 08:21 PM)ECBrad Wrote:  Yeah thats a little weird.

If your remember the difference was very very close. I wonder if there was a inaccuracy discovered in the numbers. Rather than a public squabble, a quiet compromise was reached behind the scenes.

I don't really remember how the numbers all shook out it's just strange that the shares don't add up. Could be you're right but I don't know why we wouldn't go public if our rating was incorrectly stated as 3 when it should have been 2. I wonder if we'll ever find out the reason or what the payouts for 1-2-3 will look like next year.

(04-23-2015 10:02 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Actual payouts net of expenses from this year's College Football Playoff, from the Charlotte Observer:

1) Mountain West Conference: $20.7 million
2) Conference USA: $15.2 million
3) American Athletic Conference: $14.1 million
4) Mid-American Conference: $12 million
5) Sun Belt Conference: $11.5 million

If AAC makes one dollar it will be better off than every public school in the great corndog state.

Louisana colleges prepare for bankruptcy

Thank goodness we have Tulane in our conference and none of the other dumb dumb Louisiana schools

(04-23-2015 10:02 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Actual payouts net of expenses from this year's College Football Playoff, from the Charlotte Observer:

1) Mountain West Conference: $20.7 million
2) Conference USA: $15.2 million
3) American Athletic Conference: $14.1 million
4) Mid-American Conference: $12 million
5) Sun Belt Conference: $11.5 million

Guess the MWC gets bragging rights for the top G5 conference this year. Highest in CFP money, winner of the access bowl sweepstakes and beat Arizona in the access bowl, and a three bid NCAA BB Tournament conference.

You have to step it up in 2015 / 2016 AAC.

Yup. We could not have been much less impressive in year one of the CFP era. That said, I see a lot of reasons to believe we will be better in 2015-2016 year.

(04-23-2015 10:08 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(04-23-2015 10:02 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Actual payouts net of expenses from this year's College Football Playoff, from the Charlotte Observer:

1) Mountain West Conference: $20.7 million
2) Conference USA: $15.2 million
3) American Athletic Conference: $14.1 million
4) Mid-American Conference: $12 million
5) Sun Belt Conference: $11.5 million

When divided among teams:

MW - 1.725
AAC - 1.28
CUSA - 1.08
MAC - 1
SB - 958k

IND- 933K ($2.8M / 3)

Financially, being an Independent is worse than being in the Sun Belt.