(11-10-2022 08:54 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(11-09-2022 08:26 PM)GTFletch Wrote:  Brett McMurphy of the Action Network reported that the deal could earn each school around $800,000 per season. Its a new 5-year media rights deal w/CBS Sports Network & ESPN, starting in 2023-2028. This is nearly double $425,000/year each C-USA school currently receives.

Link
https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/statu...i8x5IsAAAA

For a conference that lost so much and replaced it with so little, getting almost double the old deal money is pretty impressive.

A testament to rising sports rights fees, I think. IIRC, the SBC is now getting $2m per school per year, same as the AAC was getting as recently as 2019.

This proves again joining a FBS conference is the ticket for a low major school like Kennesaw St. to the upper middle class of athletics. Instantly they are making more TV money per year than Atlantic 10 schools.

That doesn't even consider the sizable CFP distribution under the new 12 team format.

A distribution of 10 million a year on a 25 million dollar budget is like what a 40 million dollar a year distro is on a 100 million dollar athletic budget, IMO.