The Rich get Richer. It is good to be Rich
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Big 10 and Big 12 have 3 of the top 4. Some huge programs. A&M had a monster year with a 73 million dollar revenue increase from the previous year. Is that related to donations etc. tied to the massive facilities improvement?
Large bumps in revenue seem to be linked to massive improvement projects...for 2013-14 it was Oregon...most recently, A&M. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...oins-college-sports-financial-elite/79567194/
SEC has 4 of the top 7; 6 of the top 11; 10 of the top 17. It is certainly SEC top heavy. Big Ten is the next best represented conference.
This is what I'm wondering. Where does aTm make all that money? They can't be that marketable. They have good fans, but in national fanbase, they have to trail most of the top 10. Is it from ticket sales? If so, hats off to them. That's an amazing number. Very interesting list.
lol...Oregon was the big number program a year before when they had a huge project and donations, same with Oklahoma when T Boone gave them a ton of money. That's what happened with A&M. It's an observation regarding huge jumps in revenue in a single year. Read the link I posted.
I'm not saying the SEC programs don't generate a pile of dough. They do. But, the very largest on a regular basis is Texas...four years in a row with more than 160 million. They are a monster.
SEC's revenue distribution jumps nearly 24 percent
The SEC's revenue distribution jumped considerably in the last fiscal year, which will provide schools with even more money to spend on their athletics programs.
The SEC's revenue distribution jumped considerably in the last fiscal year, which will provide schools with even more money to spend on their athletics programs.
There appears to be a growing revenue gap that threatens to widen the divide -- not between the haves and have nots, but between the haves and haves. Jon Wilner lays it out:
Fiscal year 2015 school distributions (all figures confirmed):
SEC: $32.7 million
Big Ten: $32.4 million
Pac-12: $25.1 million
Fiscal year 2016 school distributions
SEC: $40 million (confirmed)
Big Ten: $35 million (approximate)
Pac-12: $27 million (approximate)
That looks bad … that is bad … but it’s about to get much worse for the Pac-12.
Remember: The Big Ten’s new Tier 1 deal begins in 2017-18, and it’s also a whopper, averaging $440 million per year.
Which brings us to …
Fiscal year 2017-18 school distributions …
Big Ten: $45 million (estimate)
SEC: $43 million (estimate)
Pac-12: $31 million (estimate)
Fiscal year 2015 school distributions (all figures confirmed):
SEC: $32.7 million
Big Ten: $32.4 million
Pac-12: $25.1 million
Fiscal year 2016 school distributions
SEC: $40 million (confirmed)
Big Ten: $35 million (approximate)
Pac-12: $27 million (approximate)
That looks bad … that is bad … but it’s about to get much worse for the Pac-12.
Remember: The Big Ten’s new Tier 1 deal begins in 2017-18, and it’s also a whopper, averaging $440 million per year.
Which brings us to …
Fiscal year 2017-18 school distributions …
Big Ten: $45 million (estimate)
SEC: $43 million (estimate)
Pac-12: $31 million (estimate)
Too powerful for what? ACC and Big 10 have three of the last 5 national titles in football. SEC and Big 10 have 1 of the last 10 national titles in basketball (ACC has 5 by themselves).
Long term, if they want, it will be a huge benefit. FSU just lost its coach to a school that can give him a blank check for facilities, staff support, assistant coaching staff.....and, oh, by the way, highest pay package for its head coach. FSU is now hoping they got a guy who can have similar, or better, success than Jimbo over the next eight seasons. One bad mistake and it will cost the next tier schools. The upper tier schools like A&M will be able to cherry pick the proven ones. As always, past performance does not guarantee future results, however you have to like the odds.
Money talks and the SEC took advantage of its time at the top to negotiate a very lucrative TV/broadcasting deal several years ago and it is paying dividends...literally.
Huge oil money there. The Texas/Texas A&M university systems received for 600million this past year from oil reserves located on their campuses. The broadcast rights share is literally peanuts compared to what they are receiving from their oil reserves. Crazy money.
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