Apparently, the Big XII thinks they can prevent this from happening again by improving OOC scheduling (which was a joke for both TCU and Baylor), and by pressing for a change in NCAA rules to allow them to have that Big XII Championship Game with a 10 team conference. Once again, the $$$ they save by not expanding appears to be trumping the lure of a national championship and it's incremental added income.Adding two schools for the purpose of getting to 12 (for a championship game) would be among the poorest reasons to do it.
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Except, the ACC grant of rights keeps the $$ from Miami and Florida St.'s home games for the next 11 or 12 years. May be the Big 12 keeps the 9-game conference schedule and give Miami and FSU 5 road games every year and Kansas, Iowa St. and Texas Tech at home for the next decade....or play some "home" games in Jacksonville, Orlando, and Tampa...that actually might make financial sense.The Baylor boards have been talking recently about the Big 12 sniping from the ACC and taking Miami and Florida St as expansion targets instead of BYU +1 as that delivers more TV markets, more national prominence, better recruiting beds/inroads, and it would be a $$ upgrade for those two schools, plus they get to keep their rivalry.
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The national champion for the bcs got a 23.9 mil payout that's from Forbes mag. Yes it is split with the conference still a nice chunk of change. You also take into account the other bowls and payouts for the conference. National champ also get a nice health boost in venue sales as well, can you imagine all the merchandise FSU sold last year. These university's use football to sell their school winning a title up admissions sent to the school, the hidden dollars here is insane. Really good movie on netflix that outlines all of this I'll have to try and find the title and send it to ya. Being the elite conf is what every school wants and the big 12 gonna have expand and get a conf title game..expansion gonna happen sooner or later. I just hope sooner for our sake.The money from the National Championship is WAY overrated.
Making it to the Playoff only increases the CONFERENCE payout by $8Million. If you advance to the National Championship, there is another $2 million. There is no bonus for winning the Championship game. So, best case scenario, the Big 12 gets $10 million gross from the playoff. From that $10 million you deduct every single one of TCU's expenses for the bowls. BYU's said in the past that Las Vegas Bowl payouts of $1 million were about break-even for BYU to travel to Vegas. To be conservative, let's say the Big12 nets $9 million after TCU's expenses--That's $900,000 per team.
If the Big 12 expands, they have to share their $200 million a year in conference broadcast revenue with the expansion team. If they give more than 0.5% away to expansion teams, they are losing money even if they win the National Championship every year. If BYU and the other expansion team both take a discount and only takes $5 million a year in TV money for the first few years (while the other teams take $19 million each) each of those schools breaks even in expansion, and I doubt BYU or any other expansion team settles for a 75% discount--it's been about a 33% discount (taking ~11.75 million a year), which would leave the other programs hurting to the tune of a ~$1.5 million less that what they make without the National Championship now. ($20 million a year now to ~$17.8 million post-expansion + BCS money)
The National Championship is peanuts compared to TV money.
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