(03-07-2019 03:42 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 12:29 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 12:00 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 09:41 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-07-2019 09:35 AM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  It's not conference revenue being distributed inequitably. It just isn't conference revenue.

... So your answer to the issue of favoritism is to declare some revenue to not be conference revenue? That's a pretty funny word game that fools ... nobody.

Heck, I guess the new contract could include a clause giving UCF, USF, and UConn an extra million each, and that could be explained away by an Aresco backer by calling it "not conference revenue" too, eh?

Truth is, the AAC actually has special deals with Navy, and apparently with UConn too with regards to women's hoops.

You could potentially also throw in USF and Cinci as well if one includes the way the conference realignment fund was used to create a wide revenue disparity within the conference for its first 5 years or so. However—that was more of a temporary arrangement that has run its course now that the fund is exhausted.

That said, the special deal with Navy was made to get them to join. Otherwise the move would have resulted in a loss of revenue for Navy. It was an attempt to make the move revenue neutral. For UConn, I think it was simply an attempt to be reasonable—and to perhaps reduce the chance they move to the Big East. UConn spends a crap load more on women’s basketball than anyone else. It’s not unreasonable they should reap the benefit from a program nobody else spends that kind of money on.

FWIW, I'm not saying the UConn and Navy special deals weren't good deals for the AAC to make. They very well might be. But, they are not consistent with that quote from Aresco's claiming that the AAC on principle does not do special deals.

Ah, UConn doesn't have a special deal. Every team got their third tier women's basketball rights. UConn is just the only one who can really make money off it.

Similarly the Army/Navy game is one of the games that the conference returns rights to. Memphis, Houston, and Cincy have all sold a game to a regional network that did not fall under the ESPN deal. In all those cases they recieved the financial gain, not the conference. Navy can just sell their game for a lot more and while valuable has less importance than the Notre Dame game does in the contract, particularly since it was under long term renewal with CBS before the rights would fall to the conference. Other than their Olympic sports and the Army game all media revenue generated by Navy, including the games sold to CBSsports, enters the conference pool and is distributed evenly.

This is also the case for the big Xii teams, as OU sells its games ppv style. Hawaii has a seperate ppv deal that causes the media money to be distributed to Hawaii based on appearences in normal media games for the MW. Boise benefits from its special deal which is really just an agreement to pay based on appearences and Boise is always picked.