(06-24-2019 03:17 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: Seven percent of $62,563,279 is $4,379,429. Meaning that BYU made a little under $4.5 million from all TV and radio deals, including the ESPN contract.
https://lawlessrepublic.com/2017/09/21/b...act-money/
Typical AAC fan, only looking at about 25% of the equation and not even correctly. The actual pay out for AAC schools will be about $5.4M in 2020-21 as a full member, and Football only $4.2M. (The escalator effect means payouts will be above $7.5M in 2030-31, but that is the back half of the contract.) That is the number you have for BYU. Which is the old contract value.
And the BYU number you give is the old contract. The new one is going to coming a couple million higher, due to the usual 20% or so bump (probably more). But look at all the P5 home games. Those are going on ABC and ESPN, which means more money than the bump.
BYU is not giving up all those games with P5 schools that position it better for B12 membership in 2025, nor the local rivalries Boise State and Utah State. The likes Memphis, Tulsa, Tulane, ECU, Temple are not attractive. They already have series scheduled with Houston and USF. So you are not offering them an upgrade at all. Stanford, Baylor , Washington, Washington State, Minnesota, Arizona, Utah, Virginia, et al, are far more attractive opponents for ticket buyers and for ESPN TV than the AAC schedule. Again it looks like BYU will get more money that the AAC on a shorter contract, without the conference entrance or exit fees.
Also BYU is LDS and the money, unless you are talking $10-15M more, is not important enough for them to move conferences. The LDS church throws a lot of money at BYU. They are not hurting in the least financially.
They are a polite (hell) no.