UT is making what the Big Ten schools are bringing in which is about $54M from TV deals. Of course UT is getting $15M for the LHN which means it makes more on TV deals than the other B12 schools.
That TAM money is TV, donations, home games, etc. UT makes a little more than that.
Any idea what we bring in ? IIRC had read something like $30M but that was few years ago
Last year UH athletics brought in $55M.
2017-2018 college athletic department rankings
Click on school’s name for details.
https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/#
Thanks Ron. Interesting read…I see Wash St is lowest rated P5 at $65M…some eye popping numbers on there and really shows the gaps
When does the contract on the LHN expire? I seriously doubt ESPN will go another round with UT Austin…I think they learned early on that they were not the default college team in Texas. It’s as if they thought that all fans/alums of ‘other’ Texas colleges would naturally follow UT athletics.
ESPN was way off in that logic and they aren’t going to make that financial mistake again.
LHN expires June 2031.
That will go down as one of the dumbest business moves in American history.
ESPN completely overestimated UT-Austin’s popularity in Texas (clearly not as much as they thought) and nationally (clearly not as big of a national following as they thought).
They probably learned there were more that actually despised them and would never watch that channel.
Feds are exponentially more corrupt than FBS Div I.
ESPN wanted the Big 12 to stay together at the time. It’s hard to know what that was worth to them.
Was that a smart move…you have two valuable members, one valuable basketball school and then the rest are misfit flyover state toys that wouldn’t even add value to the AAC…Iowa State? Baylor? Kansas State? West Virginia? Oklahoma State?
Maybe letting the four (OU, OSU, UT, TT) actually move to the PAC would have been the best thing, especially with TAMU and Mizzou leaving. Would have narrowed the power conferences down to four…creating a better product.
I really don’t know. It all depends on what that inventory was worth to them.
No way. The pac is floundering and adding big 12 schools wouldn’t have helped.
Instead, the big 12 is making very good money with consistent access to the playoffs.
Keeping the big 12 together was a good move for ESPN
ESPN sponsors cartel-like relationships. They make fantastic money and have no incentive to
change anything and that includes letting us into a P5 based on merit. The lousy programs in the P5 will
eventually benefit when they start paying players and we cannot compete. Aresco is a joke.
Ah JM, that’s where I think you are wrong. Schools will not be able to pay players. They will make money from their NIL which means tv commercials, billboard advertising and photo ops. We live in Houston and we have a lot of businesses and because of that we will be competitive for better recruits.
The NCAA details on the NIL will have to wait until 2021. I’m sure the devil is in the details.
Last year The SEC distributed $43mm per member school and the Big 12 distributed $38mm. Texas gets $15mm per year for the LHN. So Vandy will conceivably get more from the SEC ($63mm) than Texas will get from the Big 12 and selling their third tier rights ($53mm). Of course things like NY6 appearances and tourney credits can cause tweaks to those numbers, but they are probably reasonable estimations to roll forward.
Everything will be up for grabs when the cfp/p5/g5 contract expires. This is why espn is being pro active trying to re-do tv contract deals. They want to “lock in” as many conferences as possible and as fast as possible. That way it makes it a lot harder to have a g5 Conference president wanting to have a “seat at the cfp table” Should the AAC have waited until the cfp contract was up? We can’t answer it right now. Right now espn has us “locked in” and controls our every move. The better contract should have been an automatic inclusion to the cfp for our Conference winner. Do we deserve it? By all accounts we have performed better than the AAC except for Clemson…that is given a path to the cfp.
Again friends this has nothing to do with how we do/perform on the field. This is clearly why a lawsuit against the cfp is going to happen sooner or later.
As far as the Feds they can redeem themselves by actually stopping this cartel. The CFB minor league already exists. It is called the P5’s and cfp.
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