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Texas pulls this crap every few years, What do they want this time ?
Texas pulls this crap every few years, What do they want this time ?
School | Revenue | Expenses |
1. Texas | $224k | $204k |
8. Oklahoma | $163k | $156k |
28. Kansas | $121k | $109k |
40. West Virginia | $103k | $98k |
43. Texas Tech | $97k | $95k |
44. Iowa State | $95k | $95k |
45. Oklahoma State | $95k | $95k |
48. Kansas State | $90k | $83k |
B12, with TX and OU still in:
(from https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances)
School Revenue Expenses 1. Texas $224k $204k8. Oklahoma $163k $156k28. Kansas $121k $109k40. West Virginia $103k $98k43. Texas Tech $97k $95k44. Iowa State $95k $95k45. Oklahoma State $95k $95k48. Kansas State $90k $83k
If you’re Texas and Oklahoma, you can look at the B12 and see that you’re subsidizing the rest of the conference. Pull Texas and Oklahoma out, and the rest of the schools will see their revenues drop once the TV rights from Oklahoma and Texas leave. The revenue tails off strongly after those two.
From an “everyone pulling their weight” point of view, the SEC and the B1G are the only two conferences of interest to those two schools, and the SEC is ahead by a nose. Moving to the ACC would give Texas and Oklahoma a little more revenue, but not enough to be worth moving.
Most of the B1G schools are top 40 in revenue, each. Northwestern isn’t listed. Many are top 10.
In the SEC, Missouri is the laggard at #37, and Vandy isn’t listed. The SEC has 5 of the top 10 revenue generating programs, and 10 of the top 20. Texas A&M is #2, and the biggest revenue school in the SEC.
In the ACC, FSU is #12 nationally in revenue. Georgia Tech is last in the ACC at #50. Miami and Duke are private, and not listed.
In the Pac12, USC and Stanford are not listed, and USC is possibly the strongest revenue team. However, that conference overall is weaker in revenue per team than the ACC.
AAC schools like Cincinnati and UCF make less revenue than Georgia Tech. Adding AAC schools to the ACC isn’t a big boost to revenues.
From the ACC point of view, most of the teams we could add from the B12 would pull our average revenue per team down, but they’re better than the AAC. There aren’t many teams that would improve our revenues unless we pull from the B1G or SEC, which would cut into the revenues of the team moving to the ACC.
The Pac12 stays about the same adding many of the schools from the B12.
The B1G doesn’t get much out of Kansas, but doesn’t lose much either. They’re below the B1G average, but they’re a top 30 team.
The B1G could merge with the Pac 12 or the ACC, but it doesn’t help their income. A better deal for them might be a recurring B1G-ACC classic, where we have home-and-home games against he B1G.
This is a huge win for the SEC. The remaining B12 schools are going to be worse off either staying in the B12 or finding a new conference. Their budgets will shrink.
The TV rights money will probably drop if Texas and Oklahoma leave the Big12. However, using the table of revenues doesn't indicate that Texas and Oklahoma are subsidizing the rest of the conference. Both of those schools get a payout from the Big12, they don't pay money into the Big12. The other revenue comes from ticket sales, branded merchandise licensing, donations, etc. Neither school shares any of that money with any other school in the Big12.B12, with TX and OU still in:
(from https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances)
School Revenue Expenses 1. Texas $224k $204k8. Oklahoma $163k $156k28. Kansas $121k $109k40. West Virginia $103k $98k43. Texas Tech $97k $95k44. Iowa State $95k $95k45. Oklahoma State $95k $95k48. Kansas State $90k $83k
If you’re Texas and Oklahoma, you can look at the B12 and see that you’re subsidizing the rest of the conference. Pull Texas and Oklahoma out, and the rest of the schools will see their revenues drop once the TV rights from Oklahoma and Texas leave. The revenue tails off strongly after those two.
Private schools don’t have to report their financials. Schools like Notre Dame (which would be top 10), Stanford, and Duke aren’t listed for that reason.This is interesting but a lot of teams missing - as you say Duke and Miami - but what about pitt and bc too - I do worry how low we are and think it is an important measure. Not the only one but very important. With a major shakeup, we are a bit weak on this. Isn't the ACC low on revenue sharing until redo their contract? Right way - and I know virtualy impossible - woud be to look at without conference revunue sharing included. The ranking likely would be very similar so may not prove anything just wonder would schools like Maryland still be ahead of us.
The TV rights money will probably drop if Texas and Oklahoma leave the Big12. However, using the table of revenues doesn't indicate that Texas and Oklahoma are subsidizing the rest of the conference. Both of those schools get a payout from the Big12, they don't pay money into the Big12. The other revenue comes from ticket sales, branded merchandise licensing, donations, etc. Neither school shares any of that money with any other school in the Big12.
Take a look at FSU. They are the top ranked ACC team in revenue. They don't share any of their revenue with the ACC. The ACC benefits from their TV markets and from their ability to bring fans to games at other schools. The ACC does not benefit from their ability to sell home tickets, their ability to sell swag, nor their ability to gain donations. GT is $9 million behind them in ticket sales, $28 million behind them in contributions, and $20 million behind them in licensing. If GT wants to compete financially with other schools, we can't wait on TV rights money to increase. Everybody's revenue will increase with that. GT has to sell more tickets, have more donations, and sell more merchandise. Right now GT's revenue is in the middle of FBS. We are third from last in the P5. Only Washington State and Oregon State have less revenue than GT.
ESPN's business model for the last 30 years or more hasn't been based on ratings or viewership. It has been based solely on number of TV subscribers. FSU and Clemson probably do provide more eyes on TV sets, but that is only about 15% of ESPN's revenue. For the ACC Network, Greenville, SC (Clemson's TV market) means much less than Atlanta (GT's TV market). I have complained about ESPN's business model and their tactics(They basically force the 60% of people who don't watch sports to subsidize those who do), but they are what has been driving revenue for NCAA athletics. That business model seems to be falling apart as people cut the cord. All of the conferences should be trying to predict what the next 10 years will be like and prepare for that.I wouldn’t say that conferences provide TV revenue to teams so much as they reallocate it.
FSU and Clemson share TV revenue evenly with the rest of the conference and they share bowl revenue. While we contribute more to that pool than Wake Forest, we are not the reason for our TV contracts, and we are not bringing in nearly as much money as other schools. Our ratings are not nearly as strong a pull as Clemson, UNC, FSU, or a number of other schools. We are clearly subsidized by other members. If you doubt that, our last bowl game and the swan song for an impressive coach was the Quick Lane Bowl. If we pulled powerful ratings, we’d get into the Dukes Mayo bowl ahead of other teams.
Oklahoma and Texas prop up the Big12 even more than Clemson and FSU bring in revenue for us. If you even think about the Longhorn Network, Texas gets coverage for their tier 3 games (baseball, games against small non-conference schools), and has more cable networks than the ACC Network, which has conference games.
Depending on what happens with current TX and OU rights, the only thing saving the B12 contract is that it’s already in place. I expect the Big 12 will struggle to get their contract renewed for less money without Oklahoma and Texas. They’ll be better than the MAC, but they’ll pull less viewership than any other major conference. Who out of Kansas, Oklahoma State, and WVU brings football ratings?
And the pieces of pie the SEC slices will be smaller.ESPN still isn't doing well. It is very possible that they will completely balk at paying more money. I haven't seen numbers lately, but it used to be that more than 80% of ESPN's revenue came from subscriber fees. Cord cutting was decimating their business model. They laid off a lot of people and cut a lot of their expenses, but their largest expense is broadcasting rights fees. I haven't studied what they have been doing for the last couple of years. Maybe they are doing better financially, but I doubt it.
Keep looking for the tin foil hats, there you will find more realistic scenarios then in this thread. Occasionally it helps to deal in reality!You do realize that all this thread is is speculation right? I suggest you take an ambien and get a good night's rest before your blood pressure gets to high.
We didn’t get the better bowls because we didn’t draw eyeballs while running the TO. We had back to back to back nationally televised games last fall (FSU, UCF, and Clemson) and drew strong ratings nationally and locally. The Clemson ratings were the worst for obvious reasonsPrivate schools don’t have to report their financials. Schools like Notre Dame (which would be top 10), Stanford, and Duke aren’t listed for that reason.
I wouldn’t say that conferences provide TV revenue to teams so much as they reallocate it.
FSU and Clemson share TV revenue evenly with the rest of the conference and they share bowl revenue. While we contribute more to that pool than Wake Forest, we are not the reason for our TV contracts, and we are not bringing in nearly as much money as other schools. Our ratings are not nearly as strong a pull as Clemson, UNC, FSU, or a number of other schools. We are clearly subsidized by other members. If you doubt that, our last bowl game and the swan song for an impressive coach was the Quick Lane Bowl. If we pulled powerful ratings, we’d get into the Dukes Mayo bowl ahead of other teams.
Oklahoma and Texas prop up the Big12 even more than Clemson and FSU bring in revenue for us. If you even think about the Longhorn Network, Texas gets coverage for their tier 3 games (baseball, games against small non-conference schools), and has more cable networks than the ACC Network, which has conference games.
Depending on what happens with current TX and OU rights, the only thing saving the B12 contract is that it’s already in place. I expect the Big 12 will struggle to get their contract renewed for less money without Oklahoma and Texas. They’ll be better than the MAC, but they’ll pull less viewership than any other major conference. Who out of Kansas, Oklahoma State, and WVU brings football ratings?
We're going to eventually get to a point where everyone that wants to play big boy football ends up in the SEC and it's the NFL-lite. Then they'll be a division between that and FCS. Only question I have is will the big boy football league be invite only or who/how gets excluded?