(06-02-2019 04:44 PM)JRsec Wrote: (06-02-2019 04:30 PM)quo vadis Wrote: I suspect the pressure for this move came from the B1G's announcement of dispersing 50 million dollars per school -the sec schools suddenly feel like they're falling behind in money.
I've a good mind to neg rep you for this troll, and I've never given a neg rep to anyone. We still out earned them by 6 million per school in total revenue and booze sales have nothing to do with the Big 10. The SEC won't lose any sleep over what the Big 10 does or doesn't do. The only competition between us of note right now might be for the acquisition of Texas or Oklahoma. The SEC will pass them in media revenue easily enough with the new T1 deal and everyone in our leadership knows it.
Ridiculous!
I am serious. This announcement comes pretty soon on the heels of the B1G's announcement of conference revenue that is way bigger than the SEC, and this is a change in *SEC* policy, something the conference can act on.
And you keep trotting out that tired "SEC earned $6m more per school" number when I already explained how that is not the most relevant number to school administrators. The conference disbursement number is, because that's the value of being a member of a conference.
That's why e.g. a few years ago the ACC had to mollify FSU and Clemson about ACC money compared to the B1G/SEC/Big 12 even though those schools were, when you added up the conference money and the money they generated locally, making more money than the average SEC/B1G/Big 12 school.
Because that's not what mattered to them, what mattered was what the conference paid out. They figured "our local money is portable, e.g., we will average 80,000 fans whether we are in the ACC or Big 12, but we will get $10m more in media money in the latter, so let's try to move". That's why the ACC moved quickly to get a GOR and set up the ACCN.
I don't know whether the SEC made this change in response to B1G money or not, but it seems plausible to me that they did, so i threw it out there. That's what this forum is for, discussing that kind of stuff.