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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.2%
  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 19 6.1%
  • Connecticut

    Votes: 6 1.9%
  • Duke

    Votes: 21 6.7%
  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 55 17.6%
  • Kansas

    Votes: 46 14.7%
  • Maryland

    Votes: 67 21.4%
  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%
  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%
  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 209 66.8%
  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 24.9%
  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%
  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%
  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%
  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.7%
  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%
  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.0%
  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.8%
  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.6%
  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%

  • Total voters
    313
Big Ten will continue to swim in TV money for years

Big Ten members will be able to make like Scrooge McDuck and swim in a giant vault of money for years to come according to the latest financial projections. Despite adding more members to the pool, there will be plenty of cash to distribute thanks to the most profitable media rights packages in the country, fueled by the conference’s own Big Ten Network.

The Journal & Courier reports Big Ten schools should expect to receive an estimated $44.5 million each during the 2017-2018 academic year, the first year Nebraska will receive a full share since joining the conference in 2011. The Huskers are going through a six-year financial integration plan, which will expire that year. Maryland and Rutgers, each joining the Big Ten this year, will also have to wait six years before being eligible for a full share of the conference’s revenue split. Each existing Big Ten member, not including Nebraska, is expected to receive $27 million from current media deals and bowl revenue. The Big Ten’s projected revenue shares is expected to rise by nearly $4 million next year ($30.9 million), another $4 million the next year ($34.1 million) and to $35.5 million by 2016-2017.

And then things get interesting. The Big Ten will have a brand new television deal in place. With the costs of media deals always escalating and with the Big Ten fully entrenched in the New York and Washington D.C. markets (the first and perhaps only reasons Rutgers and Maryland were considered in the first place), it should be expected the Big Ten will be able to make like bandits with their future television partners. The conference moving to a nine-game schedule will add to its inventory of games as well.

Entire article: http://www.jconline.com/story/sport...e/8187133/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=
 
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It's good to be the motherhokeing kings!
 
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I wonder how long some of the ACC schools (UVA, UNC, Georgia Tech especially) are going to be happy playing second fiddle on ESPiN to FSU and the $EC$EC$EC.....at some point the money involved will become a no-brainer.
 
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Big payday coming for Big Ten

The Big Ten will make the most money of any conference from this year's men's NCAA tournament.

With six of its teams playing in a total of 16 games, the Big Ten will get about $25.6 million from the NCAA during a six-year period.

Conferences receive a unit for each game their teams play in the tournament except the final. Those units are then paid out in each of the next six years, with the value of those units increasing by approximately $5,000 per year.


Wisconsin has earned the maximum five units for making the Final Four, while Michigan and Michigan State got four each for getting to the Elite Eight. Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio State earned one unit each as they bowed out in their opening games.

This year, the NCAA will pay each conference $250,106 per game that its teams played in the tournament from 2008 to 2013. Next year, when the distribution from this season is included, units will be worth $255,379.

The NCAA says units paid out in 2016 and 2017 have already been calculated at $260,525 and $265,791, respectively. That puts the projection of the total value of units earned in this year's tournament at close to $1.6 million. Units earned from this tournament will be paid in mid-April from 2015 to 2020.

Based on the projections and its showing in this year's tournament, the Pac-12 will make $22.4 million off the 14 games its schools played, while the SEC and Big 12 will make $20.8 million off the 13 games their schools played.
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A lackluster showing by the ACC, which saw none of its teams make it past the Sweet 16, and a surprising run by UConn, gave the ACC and American Athletic Conference 11 shares each that will be worth about $17.6 million in the next six years.
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The Big Ten earned $20.4 million last year. Most conferences, including the Big Ten, split the money they receive from the basketball fund equally among their member schools.

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...n-leads-all-conferences-ncaa-tourney-earnings
 
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Other than maybe moving closer to having a Big Ten Lacrosse conference I don't see how the latest expansion helps the Big Ten. Fans of Northeast and Mid Atlantic BASED schools just are not as passionate about CF as the Midwest, Southeast and Texas. Yes NYC is a big market...full of UM, Penn State and other BIG school alums...already reach those folks with BIGTen network. It would have been great to lock up St. Louis and Kansas City markets with Mizzou...a school whose academic reputation will be rising as they heavily recruit high achievers from Illinois and other surrounding states. IMHO
 
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Other than maybe moving closer to having a Big Ten Lacrosse conference I don't see how the latest expansion helps the Big Ten. Fans of Northeast and Mid Atlantic BASED schools just are not as passionate about CF as the Midwest, Southeast and Texas. Yes NYC is a big market...full of UM, Penn State and other BIG school alums...already reach those folks with BIGTen network. It would have been great to lock up St. Louis and Kansas City markets with Mizzou...a school whose academic reputation will be rising as they heavily recruit high achievers from Illinois and other surrounding states. IMHO
It's not about reaching the fans of local teams...it's about having a local team that will get you into a TV market. They don't care if nobody from that market even knows what football is. As long as there are people with TVs in the area, they can gain a huge market and get cable companies to add the channel to their programming.
 
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Other than maybe moving closer to having a Big Ten Lacrosse conference I don't see how the latest expansion helps the Big Ten. Fans of Northeast and Mid Atlantic BASED schools just are not as passionate about CF as the Midwest, Southeast and Texas. Yes NYC is a big market...full of UM, Penn State and other BIG school alums...already reach those folks with BIGTen network. It would have been great to lock up St. Louis and Kansas City markets with Mizzou...a school whose academic reputation will be rising as they heavily recruit high achievers from Illinois and other surrounding states. IMHO

It's not about reaching the fans of local teams...it's about having a local team that will get you into a TV market. They don't care if nobody from that market even knows what football is. As long as there are people with TVs in the area, they can gain a huge market and get cable companies to add the channel to their programming.

These two markets don't make a drop compared to the NYC and Maryland areas.
Still no BTN on my NYC cable service provider's line-up.
 
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