(01-09-2020 06:13 PM)quo vadis Wrote: Wow .... this is a slam-dunk for the MWC. More money than anyone thought they'd get and excellent exposure. And only tied in for six years.
By my reckoning, this is $3.75m per school if Hawaii is in the deal, $4.1m per school if not, either way even more than the very good $3.5m that SBJ reported last month, which some AAC fans claimed was surely exaggerated.
I think any talk of Boise or anyone else going to the AAC has vanished.
I also admit to being wrong - I thought that the long delay in getting the deal done was bad news, and meant a bad deal, for the MWC.
Yes, Hawaii is in the deal, but in a really interesting way.
As many folks here already know, Hawaii has a PPV deal with Spectrum. The deal expires this summer but has been paying Hawaii around $2.5 million per year provided Spectrum has at least 7 Hawaii football games to include in the PPV package it sells in the Islands.
The new MWC deal provides for CBS and Fox to broadcast no more than 4 Hawaii games per season. That ensures Hawaii will be very well positioned to continue allocating at least 7 games to Spectrum (assuming a 13 game schedule and no more than two OOC road games per season that could be telecast by the rights holder of the opponent). So presumably, Hawaii will be able to extend the PPV arrangement and continue pulling in $2.5 million or more per season from Spectrum.
In addition, Hawaii will also receive money from the new MWC deal, but this will be limited to 80% of the difference between whatever Hawaii receives from Spectrum and what the rest of the MWC members receive on average from CBS and Fox. (The 20% haircut is due to Hawaii being a football-only rather than a full member of the MWC.)
So if Hawaii continues to receive roughly $2.5 million per year from Spectrum, the new MWC deal will pay Hawaii an additional $1.2 million or so ($3.8 million total), while the other 11 MWC members will each receive roughly $4 million per year from the MWC deal.
I think it's a fair arrangement and about the best Hawaii and the conference could have hoped for without being locked into a long-term contract.
Here's an article from the Hawaii press about the deal:
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/01/0...h-cbs-fox/