(07-30-2022 11:18 PM)Jericho Wrote: (07-30-2022 02:04 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote: 14 with SDSU, Boise, Col St and SMU. Give them all half shares for the first contract.
They have to be worth something collectively on the basis of inventory alone.
It's not that that they literally have no value. But the value is way less than the other schools, which effectively lowers everyone's take. So it doesn't seem to make much sense. A lot of crappy inventory does not equal a small amount of good inventory.
The problem with your argument, here, is that you have no way of knowing what the actual value of SMU or Boise State would be if they join the PAC.
Once a team starts playing in a P5 conference - - even if it isn't a very strong FB program - - viewership tends to shoot way up.
Consider Rutgers, for example. Their viewership improved after they joined the Big Ten, due to playing high viewership games, such as:
11/1/14 (vs. Wisconsin) 1.94 million viewers
11/24/15 (vs. Ohio State): 5.29 million viewers
1/8/16 (vs. Michigan): 1.28 million viewers
11/25/17 (vs. MSU): 2.012 million viewers
11/24/18 (vs. MSU): 3.038 million viewers
That's what joining a power conference did to boost the viewership of a struggling program like Rutgers.
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Now, to get some idea of what the true "value" of Boise State would be if they start playing power conference teams on a regular basis, consider these data:
10/9/21 Boise St. vs. BYU: 2.244 million viewers
8/31/19 Boise St. vs. Florida St: 1.19 million viewers
9/15/18 Boise St. vs. Oklahoma St: 1.438 million viewers
For that matter, consider some of the highlights from Boise State's viewership data vs. G5 teams:
9/25/21 Boise St. vs. Utah St.: 804,000 viewers
9/2/21 Boise St. vs. UCF: 841,000 viewers
12/19/20 Boise St. vs. SJSU: 1.42 million viewers
11/9/19 Boise St. vs. Wyoming: 1.18 million viewers
11/24/18 Boise St. vs. Utah St 1.078 million viewers
Data such as these would seriously challenge any suggestion that Boise State's "value is way less than the other (PAC) schools."
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