(03-29-2012 11:10 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  

(03-27-2012 09:21 AM)TOGC Wrote:  

(03-27-2012 09:10 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

(03-27-2012 09:08 AM)orangefan Wrote:  The Alliance, whether it comes together or not, is looking maybe at $1 million/year/school in TV rights. With a miracle, possibly $2 million. The nBe is looking at $10 million+. Anyone who thinks BSU is going to get cold feet is deluding themselves.

The MWC is getting $1.2 million/year/school and CUSA is getting $1.4 million/year/school now. So you think the new Alliance TV deal goes down in payout?

With BSU, SDSU, Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, and possibly AFA leaving?

Absolutely.

did anybody in their own cities watch their games? If those schools were even worth 6 million a school, with just them alone and nobody else Cusa would have gotten 2 million per school... Food for thought

The "how is a school suddenly worth more" comment is probably the most overused statement on these message boards.

Your logic above suggests that it is foolish to think a team could be worth more than they are currently getting. BYU was "worth" 1.2 million a year with the Mountain West. When they left, they got an independent contract with ESPN worth somewhere between 6-12 million dollars per year. Thats as much as all the other Mountain West teams make combined (8 X 1.2 mill = only 9.6 million). Basically, that tells me that what a team makes from its current contract in a conference has little to do with the schools actual value.

Essentially, a conference contract is a package deal. Northwestern gets the same money as Michigan. It has nothing to do with what any individual school is worth. At best, its a measure of the TV value of the total games played between the schools in the conference. Who is in the conference with any individual school makes a HUGE difference in how any one school is valued in a conference contract. Take Texas and Oklahoma out of the Big 12 and suddenly, Baylor isnt worth 19 million anymore. Baylor didnt change---who they played did.

(03-30-2012 01:13 AM)attackfrog Wrote:  The "how is a school suddenly worth more" comment is probably the most overused statement on these message boards.

Your logic above suggests that it is foolish to think a team could be worth more than they are currently getting. BYU was "worth" 1.2 million a year with the Mountain West. When they left, they got an independent contract with ESPN worth somewhere between 6-12 million dollars per year. Thats as much as all the other Mountain West teams make combined (8 X 1.2 mill = only 9.6 million).

I think that it indicates that the total value of the conference TV deal is an upper bound for the schools' TV value. Unless a contract was seriously outdated, as arguably the Mountain West's was, it's hard to argue that School X in Conference Y would be worth more on the open market than Conference Y's entire TV rights deal.