1. B1G: 52.10 million per school average
2. SEC: 48.07 million per school average
3. B12: 39.91 million per school average (plus individual T3 revenue)
5. ACC: 33.60 million per school average
5. PAC: 33.60 million per school average

Interesting Information about each: All Totals include CFP & Bowl Distributions

B1G: The oldest members of the conference earned 54.3 in payouts. Rutgers and Maryland received less dragging down the average.

SEC: The average is from a narrower range than other conferences because of how Bowl and CFP money is distributed.

The SEC schools also received 23 million each from the conference to help offset gate losses during COVID. That money is not included in these media payouts but will likely be included in Gross Total Revenue reported for fiscal year 2020-21 when reported by Equity in Athletics next June.

Big 12: The only variance between schools was in Bowl and CFP money for T1 and T2.

ACC: ACC numbers varied widely from 30-37 million (Clemson) and yes a full share was distributed to N.D. so the pot was split 16 ways. The wide swing is due to Bowl and CFP revenue. So it is my assumption that splitting contract numbers 16 ways slightly skewed non bowl and playoff schools down while post season revenue skewed participants up.

PAC 12: The PAC 12, had they calculated conference shares similarly to the other P4 would have been in 3rd place with a 40.8 million per school average based on media revenue, but instead each school received from the conference 33.6 million. Perhaps Wedge could shed some light on this.

In the other P conferences the conference share is equal to those of the schools with minor variations. The PAC 12 received 530.4 million in media revenue. Divided 13 ways it should have paid out 40.8 million.

Editorial Note: This data was compiled from a variety of press releases none of which were definitive in all aspects and many of which reported variations in the totals. Some were media payments without bowl and playoff revenue and some with. I used a posting of total media payouts to each conference and divided them by the number of schools plus the conference share. Most conference reports listed the range based on post season revenue. The PAC was the exception and I used their conference press release for the reason that 33.6 couldn't be explained by the method which was within reasonable agreement on distributions for all other P5 conferences.

(07-19-2021 04:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  1. B1G: 52.10 million per school average
2. SEC: 48.07 million per school average
3. B12: 39.91 million per school average (plus individual T3 revenue)
5. ACC: 33.60 million per school average
5. PAC: 33.60 million per school average

Interesting Information about each: All Totals include CFP & Bowl Distributions

B1G: The oldest members of the conference earned 54.3 in payouts. Rutgers and Maryland received less dragging down the average.

SEC: The average is from a narrower range than other conferences because of how Bowl and CFP money is distributed.

The SEC schools also received 23 million each from the conference to help offset gate losses during COVID. That money is not included in these media payouts but will likely be included in Gross Total Revenue reported for fiscal year 2020-21 when reported by Equity in Athletics next June.

Big 12: The only variance between schools was in Bowl and CFP money for T1 and T2.

ACC: ACC numbers varied widely from 30-37 million (Clemson) and yes a full share was distributed to N.D. so the pot was split 16 ways. The wide swing is due to Bowl and CFP revenue. So it is my assumption that splitting contract numbers 16 ways slightly skewed non bowl and playoff schools down while post season revenue skewed participants up.

PAC 12: The PAC 12, had they calculated conference shares similarly to the other P4 would have been in 3rd place with a 40.8 million per school average based on media revenue, but instead each school received from the conference 33.6 million. Perhaps Wedge could shed some light on this.

In the other P conferences the conference share is equal to those of the schools with minor variations. The PAC 12 received 530.4 million in media revenue. Divided 13 ways it should have paid out 40.8 million.

Thank you, JR, for compiling these numbers.

Just to verify: do these numbers include Tier 3 for the B1G, SEC, ACC, and Pac 12?

As you mention, the B12 Tier 3 numbers are separate. In the past, it has averaged an extra $15M for Texas, an extra $7.5M for OU, and various amounts for the rest. I haven't seen how these played out for this school year, especially with the ESPN+ deal.

(07-19-2021 05:53 PM)johnintx Wrote:  

(07-19-2021 04:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  1. B1G: 52.10 million per school average
2. SEC: 48.07 million per school average
3. B12: 39.91 million per school average (plus individual T3 revenue)
5. ACC: 33.60 million per school average
5. PAC: 33.60 million per school average

Interesting Information about each: All Totals include CFP & Bowl Distributions

B1G: The oldest members of the conference earned 54.3 in payouts. Rutgers and Maryland received less dragging down the average.

SEC: The average is from a narrower range than other conferences because of how Bowl and CFP money is distributed.

The SEC schools also received 23 million each from the conference to help offset gate losses during COVID. That money is not included in these media payouts but will likely be included in Gross Total Revenue reported for fiscal year 2020-21 when reported by Equity in Athletics next June.

Big 12: The only variance between schools was in Bowl and CFP money for T1 and T2.

ACC: ACC numbers varied widely from 30-37 million (Clemson) and yes a full share was distributed to N.D. so the pot was split 16 ways. The wide swing is due to Bowl and CFP revenue. So it is my assumption that splitting contract numbers 16 ways slightly skewed non bowl and playoff schools down while post season revenue skewed participants up.

PAC 12: The PAC 12, had they calculated conference shares similarly to the other P4 would have been in 3rd place with a 40.8 million per school average based on media revenue, but instead each school received from the conference 33.6 million. Perhaps Wedge could shed some light on this.

In the other P conferences the conference share is equal to those of the schools with minor variations. The PAC 12 received 530.4 million in media revenue. Divided 13 ways it should have paid out 40.8 million.

Thank you, JR, for compiling these numbers.

Just to verify: do these numbers include Tier 3 for the B1G, SEC, ACC, and Pac 12?

As you mention, the B12 Tier 3 numbers are separate. In the past, it has averaged an extra $15M for Texas, an extra $7.5M for OU, and various amounts for the rest. I haven't seen how these played out for this school year, especially with the ESPN+ deal.

Yes all numbers for conferences other than the B12 are inclusive of T3. OU's and UT's contracts are backloaded. Common estimates for OU which expire next year, if I remember correctly, is around 9 to 10 million. Estimates for Texas are now around 17 million. Kansas had been making 7 but I think they are now under ESPN+. It is said, but unverified, that all others make between 2 to 5 million on their T3 deals. I have no idea what Kansas makes T3 now.

(07-19-2021 04:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  1. B1G: 52.10 million per school average
2. SEC: 48.07 million per school average
3. B12: 39.91 million per school average (plus individual T3 revenue)
5. ACC: 33.60 million per school average
5. PAC: 33.60 million per school average

Interesting Information about each: All Totals include CFP & Bowl Distributions

B1G: The oldest members of the conference earned 54.3 in payouts. Rutgers and Maryland received less dragging down the average.

SEC: The average is from a narrower range than other conferences because of how Bowl and CFP money is distributed.

The SEC schools also received 23 million each from the conference to help offset gate losses during COVID. That money is not included in these media payouts but will likely be included in Gross Total Revenue reported for fiscal year 2020-21 when reported by Equity in Athletics next June.

Big 12: The only variance between schools was in Bowl and CFP money for T1 and T2.

ACC: ACC numbers varied widely from 30-37 million (Clemson) and yes a full share was distributed to N.D. so the pot was split 16 ways. The wide swing is due to Bowl and CFP revenue. So it is my assumption that splitting contract numbers 16 ways slightly skewed non bowl and playoff schools down while post season revenue skewed participants up.

PAC 12: The PAC 12, had they calculated conference shares similarly to the other P4 would have been in 3rd place with a 40.8 million per school average based on media revenue, but instead each school received from the conference 33.6 million. Perhaps Wedge could shed some light on this.

In the other P conferences the conference share is equal to those of the schools with minor variations. The PAC 12 received 530.4 million in media revenue. Divided 13 ways it should have paid out 40.8 million.

Editorial Note: This data was compiled from a variety of press releases none of which were definitive in all aspects and many of which reported variations in the totals. Some were media payments without bowl and playoff revenue and some with. I used a posting of total media payouts to each conference and divided them by the number of schools plus the conference share. Most conference reports listed the range based on post season revenue. The PAC was the exception and I used their conference press release for the reason that 33.6 couldn't be explained by the method which was within reasonable agreement on distributions for all other P5 conferences.

Pac 12 owns their own network. So there are substantial expenses to generate that revenue. For the SEC and ACC, ESPN is paying those costs before distributing revenue.

(07-19-2021 04:44 PM)JRsec Wrote:  1. B1G: 52.10 million per school average
2. SEC: 48.07 million per school average
3. B12: 39.91 million per school average (plus individual T3 revenue)
5. ACC: 33.60 million per school average
5. PAC: 33.60 million per school average

Interesting Information about each: All Totals include CFP & Bowl Distributions

PAC 12: The PAC 12, had they calculated conference shares similarly to the other P4 would have been in 3rd place with a 40.8 million per school average based on media revenue, but instead each school received from the conference 33.6 million. Perhaps Wedge could shed some light on this.

In the other P conferences the conference share is equal to those of the schools with minor variations. The PAC 12 received 530.4 million in media revenue. Divided 13 ways it should have paid out 40.8 million.

The Pac-12 has/had a massive spending problem. Ever since signing the contract with ESPN/Fox the Pac-12 has been a top 3 revenue producer but they largely piss a significant chunk of that away on unnecessary frivolous spending.

Quote:How conferences spend their money

The Pac-12’s largest expense category after its grants for schools is salaries and benefits for employees, which amount to 7.2% of the expenses. Salaries account for no more than 2.3% of expenses in any other Power 5 conference.

Costs associated with the Pac-12 Network, the conference’s independently owned and operated media network, contributed to an information technology bill of more than $10 million during the 2018-19 fiscal year. The Big Ten and Big 12, the conferences who spent the next-closest amount of money on IT that year, each spent less than $420,000.

The Pac-12 distributed only 74.5% of its expenses back to the schools in 2018-19, the highest percentage spent on schools in the conference since 2010-11, the final year of the Pac-10. The SEC spent 89.6% of its expenses on school distributions while the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 all spent more than 92%.

Sad thing is the 74% return is actually quite a bit higher then what the Pac-12 was returning in the early years, at the beginning the conference was withholding on average between 35-40% of revenue.

The Pac-12 is paying not only the salaries of the Pac-12 conference employees but also Pac-12 network employees as they are actually under a different umbrella and are taking what amounts to an extra full share of conference revenue to pay for it all. Scott's salary by itself he was pulling in more than Jim Delany and Greg Sankey were making combined.

Also they are living above their means in rent. they pay about 6.5 million a year more in rent then the ACC, B1G, B12 and SEC pay combined.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/202...n-analysis

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregon...part1.html