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  1. 20 hours ago, HawaiiMongoose said:

    The 11 full members of the MWC each get a full share of the $45 million annual CBS/Fox payout.  UH gets just a partial share, equal to the difference between 80% of whatever each of the other MWC members receive and the $3.1 million per year UH earns and is allowed to keep from its Spectrum PPV contract.

    If you do the algebra, that means each of the MWC full members is getting $4.076 million per year (x11 = $44.836 million) and UH is getting the remaining $164K (for a total of $3.264 million which is 80% of $4.076 million).

    Note that these calculations don't include the extra $1.8 million payout to Boise State each year, which I've heard is being covered by the networks outside the $45 million per year base payout to the conference.  It also doesn't take into account that the payouts aren't identical in each of the six years of the contract but rather start a little lower and end a little higher.

    Thanks. 

    I forgot about Boise’s sweetheart deal. Is it a certainty that the bonus $1.8M does not come from the $45M/year? 

    So basically, from the TV deal and adjacent agreements, MW teams get just over $4M/year, Hawaii gets just over $3.25M, and Boise gets just over $5.8M. (Actually, I just found another article, different from the original one I quoted, that estimates Boise’s share at about $5.7M and the other members’ share at about $3.9M, so very close to the numbers you provided). 

    ESPN has hamstrung the MW in regards to stealing SMU and a few of the other CT teams by agreeing to “essentially keep them whole” and keeping their payout at/close to their original expected $7M/year for the duration of the contract term. That can change in 2032 when the current AAC contract expires or even in 2026 when the MW deal ends/gets renegotiated. 

    How serious is the MWC about getting into the Central Time Zone and what are the main motivations for that move if it were pursued? Is it strictly TV time slot related or is there something else? 

  2. What is the MWC’s TV deal worth?

    I found an article online that quotes $270M over 6 years. That’s $45M/year divided by 12 schools comes to $3.75M per school/per year. I don’t know how Hawaii being a football-only member impacts the revenue shares. 

    Is this right/the most current?

  3. 14 hours ago, Ibanez said:

    Buckeye Scoop reports what the B1G, USC, and FOX are discussing in terms or a merger and the financial benefits. USC and the B1G wanna make something happen and it's NOT a schedule agreement.

    Washington State, Oregon State, and Utah to the MWC

     

    What I heard was that the Big Ten was looking to add USC and Notre Dame to get to 16 members. If this report can be believed, at least USC reciprocates the interest. I don’t think that ND is a viable option due to a clause in its current contract with the ACC, which supposedly stipulates that if ND chooses to join a conference it must join the ACC. Not sure how ironclad that is if it exists. Also, not sure how keen ND would be on moving to the Big Ten over the ACC anyway.

    Assuming ND stands pat, would the Big Ten be okay with just adding USC and staying at 15 members, or as this video report suggests, it would have to grow to 16, as USC would only be okay with moving if it brings along a fellow PAC-12 school? If it’s the latter, what school is that 16th? This report seems to suggest it would be Colorado. I would think that Stanford or UCLA make more sense, maybe even Washington. Perhaps the thinking is that Colorado would give the Big Ten a member in each of the Western Time Zones, who knows. 

  4. 4 hours ago, retrofade said:

    He just said that we wouldn't have a country if he wasn't President... and then ranted about "fake news" again. Jesus +++++ing Christ.

     

    Tune the fvcking retard out. 

    Don't understand why anyone still listens to that orange peace of turd. 

    COVID-19 won't have nearly the impact that the brainless imbecile in the White House has had in decimating this country. 

    Hopefully, it won't be much longer for this country to finally see "the flattening of the curve" of that dumbfvck's presidency. 

  5. 20 minutes ago, NorCalCoug said:

    I keep waiting for the huge jump in Utah but the biggest day of new cases confirmed so far has been 15.  The last 4 days saw 12, 12, 8, and 15.  I don’t know if that’s something to be optimistic about or if it’s just a case of limited testing.

    Maybe Mormons are naturally immune. Could be the magic underwear, or all the inbreeding. 

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  6. 9 hours ago, SleepingGiantsFan said:

    It likely means we won't be going to the Big West as it's currently composed. However, as I've continued to say, insiders told me a year ago the administration had decided to just sit tight in the MWC until the B12 thing shakes out circa 2024-2025. Fresno and UNLV will obviously do the same and if all of us are rejected by the B12 when it realigns, we could go indy for football and take all the CSU schools out of the Big West to create our own conference for Olys. You only need eight to qualify for an NCAA bid and with those four CSU schools plus Hawaii, there would be eight and if CSUB would also join, there would be nine. UNR might also be interested in coming along and we could cobble together a sort of independent football conference. (The UC schools within the Big West could add more of their own kind or merge with the WAC.)

    My thing is this. If K5James is correct, SDSU is going to get stuck playing in the Hawaii Bowl again which is bad enough. Much worse is we're going to get stuck playing Temple, which was about as good this year as Utah State. We Aztecs are just sick of having to deal with such garbage and if that's our bowl lot in life this year, it's going to be another strike against remaining in this mess under any circumstances when realignment again raises its head.

    Actually, I believe it's only six to qualify for most sports. The eight you are thinking of may be the requirement to officially sponsor football at the FBS level.

    EDIT: The minimum number of members for a D-I Multisport Conference is seven.

     

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