If you are not familiar with CollegeAD, its basically the subscription news service of the college athletic administrator community. It's behind a $15 month/$100 annual paywall...
"What we know about the money behind the Sun Belt's new TV deal"
https://collegead.com/newsfeed/sun-belt-conference-44/
In other completely-unrelated-to-copyrighted-paywall news, the Marshall Board of Governor's budget adjustment back in November to increase future years conference media distribution revenues for the athletic department to $2m per year seems to not need any further adjustments at this time.
Nice. Thanks for the completely unrelated info also
(07-28-2022 11:52 AM)USM3000 Wrote: [ -> ]Nice. Thanks for the completely unrelated info also
IKR. We don’t need to see the whole content, but at least hit us up with some highlights if you gonna post something like this.
Paywall stinky. Someone summarize.
OK, I give up. What did he say?
Uh…..I’m pretty sure MAC is saying that the article says that the deal is worth around $2M
Does media distribution = conference revenue, or just the media deal? It seems a lot of reports mix the two. Hypothetically, would a reputable journal like, say, CollegeAD or somebody, clearly make that distinction?
I don’t understand why this is played so close to the chest when other conferences deals like the AAC, ACC, MAC, and SEC are available. These are also espn conferences.
Chris Vannini of The Athletic said he'd be writing about the SBC media deal. Hopefully it'll include something from this.
Wasn't it already $2 million? I think we can hope to at least double that at the next contract. $4-5 million pales in comparison to other conferences but that's 15-25% increase of our member budgets.
(07-29-2022 07:52 AM)Eagles Cliff Wrote: [ -> ]Wasn't it already $2 million? I think we can hope to at least double that at the next contract. $4-5 million pales in comparison to other conferences but that's 15-25% increase of our member budgets.
$2 million has been in the neighborhood of what it was expected to go after the additions to the conference. The changes announced prior to media days last year bumped it up to ~$1.1/1.2 which is the current deal we're under until next year.
There could be opportunity for more growth as we move forward especially if we become a higher valued property in the G5.
(07-29-2022 07:52 AM)Eagles Cliff Wrote: [ -> ]Wasn't it already $2 million? I think we can hope to at least double that at the next contract. $4-5 million pales in comparison to other conferences but that's 15-25% increase of our member budgets.
I thought it was just over $1 million. As such $2 million would be nearly double. A drop in the bucket compared to the P5, but still a nice increase. It also would be about equal to the AAC newbies, which makes sense. Our goal should be to match the $5-6 million the MWC gets. The AAC legacy teams get $7mil for now.
(07-29-2022 08:54 AM)monarx Wrote: [ -> ] (07-29-2022 07:52 AM)Eagles Cliff Wrote: [ -> ]Wasn't it already $2 million? I think we can hope to at least double that at the next contract. $4-5 million pales in comparison to other conferences but that's 15-25% increase of our member budgets.
I thought it was just over $1 million. As such $2 million would be nearly double. A drop in the bucket compared to the P5, but still a nice increase. It also would be about equal to the AAC newbies, which makes sense. Our goal should be to match the $5-6 million the MWC gets. The AAC legacy teams get $7mil for now.
Unless it's a contract that goes up in value as the deal progresses, the MWC is at $4M per school.
initial rumor on this were somewhere between $2 and $2.5 million per school. But that was never confirmed. There has now been additional changes. To be honest, the lack of transparency has me nervous about what the real numbers are.
From Chris Vannini's article this morning:
"Other sources in the league said that television revenue increase will essentially keep each school whole at last year’s number while splitting the pie 14 ways instead of 10 or 12 before. That television number is believed to be around $1 million each, a source said, with the total conference payout at least double that."
https://theathletic.com/3458900/2022/07/...alignment/
(07-29-2022 09:24 AM)bridgeforthduke Wrote: [ -> ]From Chris Vannini's article this morning:
"Other sources in the league said that television revenue increase will essentially keep each school whole at last year’s number while splitting the pie 14 ways instead of 10 or 12 before. That television number is believed to be around $1 million each, a source said, with the total conference payout at least double that."
https://theathletic.com/3458900/2022/07/...alignment/
Interesting. I think he'd be the first to report that. Every other article floating around has said $2M.
And didn't the most recent Louisiana financial report compared to Louisiana Tech that was posted a few weeks ago have the Cajuns as just over $2M for broadcast rights? And the total conference payout at more than that.
(07-29-2022 09:28 AM)MUsince96 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-29-2022 09:24 AM)bridgeforthduke Wrote: [ -> ]From Chris Vannini's article this morning:
"Other sources in the league said that television revenue increase will essentially keep each school whole at last year’s number while splitting the pie 14 ways instead of 10 or 12 before. That television number is believed to be around $1 million each, a source said, with the total conference payout at least double that."
https://theathletic.com/3458900/2022/07/...alignment/
Interesting. I think he'd be the first to report that. Every other article floating around has said $2M.
And didn't the most recent Louisiana financial report compared to Louisiana Tech that was posted a few weeks ago have the Cajuns as just over $2M for broadcast rights? And the total conference payout at more than that.
No, they had 1.2M for the Cajuns. However, that was for the fiscal year 2020-2021, which was the COVID year for football. Other financial reports for SBC programs had different numbers, so I'm not sure how reliable that report is.
The 2022 money will be around $1.2 million. New deal starts in 2023 which will have an increase
(07-29-2022 09:28 AM)MUsince96 Wrote: [ -> ] (07-29-2022 09:24 AM)bridgeforthduke Wrote: [ -> ]From Chris Vannini's article this morning:
"Other sources in the league said that television revenue increase will essentially keep each school whole at last year’s number while splitting the pie 14 ways instead of 10 or 12 before. That television number is believed to be around $1 million each, a source said, with the total conference payout at least double that."
https://theathletic.com/3458900/2022/07/...alignment/
Interesting. I think he'd be the first to report that. Every other article floating around has said $2M.
And didn't the most recent Louisiana financial report compared to Louisiana Tech that was posted a few weeks ago have the Cajuns as just over $2M for broadcast rights? And the total conference payout at more than that.
This is for now until the 2023 deal is cut. Looks like ESPN is giving the new schools a few bucks to for the early season.