(09-13-2021 12:00 PM)TTT Wrote: Money is driving all of this. What % increase in TV money do you think is enough for a school to leave their current conference and join another?
What are the averages that G5 conferences (per school) are currently making per year from their respective TV deals?
I don’t think that’s completely true. As Bernadette Peters says in The Jerk, it’s not the money I’ll miss, it’s all the stuff.
Texas and OU could have walked and gotten raises long ago but the landscape has changed. It’s power five in name only. The B1G and SEC are getting the headlines for money and exposure and ACC has been the one fighting SEC for football titles.
Movie quote again. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
I will not be ignored.
Money is a great tool and resource but the aura of who you affiliate with matters. Would UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati have turned down Big XII if the money was on par with AAC? Probably not. The association with those brands carries its own value.
Arkansas State isn’t in the AAC hunt as far as I know but even if Memphis got raided out AState leadership would still opt to affiliate with Tulsa, SMU, Tulane and East Carolina.
I suspect there are some CUSA schools who look back and ask why did we go to 14 instead of 12 or 10. Why didn’t we patch the holes and wait to see how things shook out? USM, Marshall, Rice, UAB got sold the idea of 14 can keep us at a million per or closer to a million per than 10 or 12 would. Didn’t work that way and instead of big Christmas bonus to put in a pool they got a membership in the jelly of the month club.
When I was in college Twin Towers was the men’s dorm apparently modeled on a correctional facility. Delta Hall sucked but you moved to Delta if you could because it had less of a soul sucking institutional feeling.
In the grand scheme paying some money to show your supporters you care about athletics is a decent spend. Remember many G5 schools spend ridiculous amounts on a coach to keep them there when the salary is absolutely not enough to keep the coach there if offered a better profile job not seen as a graveyard.
Sun Belt exit is $2 million. Presume CUSA is similar. That might sound like a lot to get similar revenue and a change in exposure but I suspect a good number of CUSA and Sun Belt schools have spent $2 million in a year to a fire a head coach and staff and hire a new one in hopes of getting fans off their back and a wistful hope of increased donations and ticket sales. It’s just not a big deterrent.