(07-28-2020 01:53 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-28-2020 01:51 PM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  I have to say that the responses here have convinced me that very little would have changed even if the Big East had signed that ESPN deal in 2011. The ACC still would have seen the Pac-12 deal happen and decided to expand so that they could open up their contract for renegotiation. Pitt and Syracuse still would have left for the ACC to get more money. WVU would have left for the Big 12. And so on. Catholic 7 still leaves. Notre Dame, Rutgers, and Louisville, ditto.

It's amazing. Other than Cincinnati and USF, every single member of the 16-team Big East is apparently worth more separated than together.

I'm not sure the same isn't true of the ACC.

I'm sure that's true. Each ACC member would make more money as a member of the SEC or the B1G than it would in the ACC. But several of them would not necessarily *add* value to those leagues, and some may even dilute the value.

Let me put it differently. The schools who left proved more valuable separated from the 16-team version of the Big East because each either increased the per-school value of their new conference's contract or, at worst, maintained it. When Syracuse and Pitt joined the ACC, they increased the per-school payout to ACC schools by a few million dollars. WVU replacing Missouri led to the same TV value for the Big 12. Notre Dame increases the value of the ACC by about a million per school. Rutgers helped increase the value of the B1G. Louisville replacing Maryland maintained the value of the ACC. And the Catholic 7 have made more by themselves than they would have made even in the 16-team Big East.

I suppose I should amend my earlier point that UConn, in addition to Cincinnati and USF, also did not increase its value from membership in the 16-team Big East to either AAC membership or Big East/FB independence.