(05-22-2020 12:45 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(05-22-2020 09:12 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(05-22-2020 07:11 AM)GTFletch Wrote:  1. The new MWC Deal ends 2025-2026 and the next deal will not give Boise State extra cash...

That's not what Boise's MWC membership agreement says.

Boise chose the MWC based on that agreement. If the MWC wants to void the agreement, then the MWC is going to face a claim for damages in the amount of money that Boise would have made as an AAC member from 2013 to now, based on the AAC-ESPN contracts. (Minus the travel subsidies Boise would have paid to the MWC, minus the money the MWC did pay to Boise)

That's not going to be much damages. Once you subtract any travel subsidies Boise would have paid to another western conference, and the money Boise did make in the MWC, and the extra expense of traveling all the way from Boise to the east coast just to play conference games, Boise might not have enough left to pay their attorneys.

Boise probably would get the ability to leave the MWC for free, i.e., without paying exit fees. For that matter, the MWC ought to just offer that up front.

For the first AAC and MWC contracts, it's a wash--the AAC was getting a million or so more per school, but that would have gone straight to the Big West for travel.
But the new contract numbers are about $3.75M per year vs about $6.95M.

That's $3M a year, less $1M for travel to the Big West, less $1.8M per year (replacing the National Exposure Bonuses), yeah that doesn't add up to very much.