(11-07-2017 11:27 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(11-07-2017 11:00 AM)pesik Wrote:  

(11-07-2017 10:41 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(11-07-2017 10:23 AM)pesik Wrote:  

(11-06-2017 09:19 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  The AAC is closer to the Sun Belt than any P5 in average budget, attendance, endowment etc etc etc.

That isn't debatable.

Again, it's P5/G5, that isn't changing.

uconn has a 70mil budget, aac average is about 50 mil (lowest is 44),
the average sunbelt is 24mil (reaching as low as 11),
the average p5 is about 80 (and they are carried by a power or 2 over a 100mi, plenty before 6 mil)

the literally only difference in budget between the p5 and the AAC is tv revenue, uconn would be a 90+ mil with a p5 tv deal

our endowments are way closer to the p5 than sunbelt, its not even close.. half the aac is over a billion or close ..their is only one respectable endowment in the sunbelt and thats south alabama at around 500, the rest average around under a 100mil

you just made up a ton of false facts

attendance is the only fair point youve made, but the AAC is the only active conference in ALL the fbs who is having a positive trend in attendance

Wait, I'm sorry, is $50M closer to $24M or $80M?

i was using a rough estimation, my point was that the gap was just as big between the AAC and Sunbelt and the depth of the league, where our worst was 44mil, their worst is 11 mil, and there are p5 with 56mil...and every p5 hs a 25mil+ head start..that if our next tv deal is big, we'd probably close that gap

and im using the ncaa finances resource on usatoday (also i relieazed i ight have been using an older year, so the number are a bit more bigger in the newer version, but the gap sizes remain about the same )

Lowest P5 USA Today budget is KS ST at nearly 71 million. Then (other than AAC outlier UCONN) there's a $12 million dollar drop to UCF at $59 million

Try again.