didn't see posted so here it is
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...xas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-podcast-062615
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...xas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-podcast-062615
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Nothing will happen for another year or two. BB needs to start getting better now sanctions are gone. This will be a football decision.
I agree with them regarding the basketball program. Not so sure about the rest of the athletic program. I think top to bottom, UCF has the strongest athletic program of the four schools being considered.
I agree, I think the overall depth of athletics would be fine in short order if an invite came. It was interesting later on in the program when they discussed TCU saying that people don't even recall the days of TCU in the Mountain West. I see no reason UCF couldn't be even more successful than TCU if given the P5 tag.
I don't know about BYU, and I'm saying that literally, but as an athletic department we've shown we can go toe-to-toe with any AAC school (cue the graphic).
It would be great if we are better than BYU across the board, because... well because it would seem to me with their LDS affiliation they're recruiting on a national level.
Also curious how much "No Play on Sunday" is a factor. Obviously zero for football, but olympic sports on an extended road trip weekend are going to wreak havoc with scheduling on some level.
Either way, I'll have my SouFlay voodoo doll at the ready and will keep praying to the burnt orange and maroon gods that we can pull off this coup.
The B12 really cannot create an effective B12 network because Texas refuses to give up having full control of their own Tier 3 rights. Texas gets $15 million per year from the Longhorn Network for their Tier 3 rights...far more than any other school in the B12. I really would like to know how seriously the B12 has "run the numbers" on what a B12 network would produce if UCF and Cincinnati were added.
The current B12 states (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and West Virginia) have 13,721,870 TV Households. Adding UCF and Cincinnati (Florida and Ohio) adds 12,086,670 TV Households. So the total B12 TV Households with UCF and Cincinnati is 25,808,540. That leaves approximately 90 million TV households in "out-of market" states.
The B1G network receives between $1.00 and $1.15 per month for every cable/satellite subscriber in "in-market" states. The SEC network gets between $1.25 and $1.45.
For "out-of market" states I believe both the B1G and SEC network get 10 cents per subscriber.
If the B12 were to get $1 per subscriber for in-market states and the same 10 cents per subscriber for out of market states,
that totals about $34.8 million in revenue per month, or $417.6 million per year. The big thing I don't know is what the operating expenses are for a conference network. Those operating expenses have to be deducted before the conference and the network (either ESPN or FOX) split what is left. I think the B1G gets 49% of the network profit while FOX gets 51%. The SEC has not publicly released the split between the SEC and ESPN.
Let's assume that the operating expenses for a conference network are $75 million per year. The remaining $342.6 million would leave the B12 with $171.3 million assuming a 50/50 split with ESPN or FOX. Divide that $171.3 million by 12 schools and you get $14.275 million per school. That's pretty darn close to what Texas gets now and far more than any of the other B12 schools currently receive for their Tier 3 rights.
