A. CUSA-12 renegotiated its contract 3 years ago and received about $1.2M per CUSA school.

B. Houston, SMU, Tulane, Memphis, UCF, and ECU, the designated superior attractive schools added former AQ schools Cincy, UConn, and UCF plus adding Navy and jettisoned what are considered the worst CUSA schools of Tulsa, Rice, UTEP, UAB, Southern Miss, and Marshall, and then was able to renegotiate its TV contract in what is considered the most opportune time of rapidily boosted conference tv contracts.

(1) The collection of "superior" schools, (2) the jettisoning of "inferior" schools, and (3) renegotiating a tv contract in a time of rapidly rising tv college conference tv contracts should have seen a very lucrative Nbe tv contract. Why, then, is it that Nbe, with three very strong factors in its advantage, only able to negotiate a Nbe tv contract worth only $500,000 more per CUSA school (on a CUSA contract negotiated 3 years ago)?

When you consider the 3 strong advantages of Nbe, the low $1.7M per Nbe is surprisingly low.

C. C7 will earn somewhere between $3M to $4M per basketball playing school. Two broadcast netoworks, ESPN and FOX are bidding against each other to get the C7. The lesson to be drawn here is that the market truly does reward those with a worthy product...and refute any advanced conspiracy theory that a Network or networks are actively working to undermine a college conference.

Perhaps there are some positives in the realignment circus. All schools have been evaluated by broadcast outlets. No school can now complain that its respective conference is "holding us back."