http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/...rec_1.html

The deal is reportedly for around $100M over 13 years, which includes an upgrade to the last 3 years of the present contract. The official releases don't seem to contain an actual $ figure, so I'm guessing that is an approximate number.

Good things are that every MAC football game will be on at least ESPN3, as well as some men's and women's basketball games. Also ESPN3 will present other non-revenue sports that are produced by the universities themselves, so that will be some great exposure for those sports, assuming UT (and other MAC schools) choose to produce those events - I assume it will be up to the schools what they produce?

Not sure I like the Friday night hoops for 14-15, but we will see. Also not clear whether the BBall games not picked up by ESPN can be shown elsewhere, like the TW deal from last season.

The money is certainly better than the previous deal, but it's a bit of a gamble for such a long contract. It breaks down to and average of around $8M per year (unknown what the year-to-year breakdown is), which doesn't sound that bad, but in 13 years $8M could be worth less than half that, depending on inflation rates.