(04-14-2014 08:41 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  

(04-13-2014 07:44 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  [quote='Rik Flair' pid='10665255' dateline='1397431909'] The same for UMASS, they can be football only, but it will cost them $500k.

You mean, $500,000 out of the extra $1m CFP money they bring from raising the Sunbelt to 12 from 11?





If it the SBC gets 1 million dollars simply by going from 11 to 12 then it WILL happen this year. Is that 1 million exclusively tied to UMASS?

Call the 500k a rent/lease fee. I chose 500k because I doubt they would pay 1 million to join and I want something for the trouble of bringing in another outlier school that nobody in the SBC cares about playing.

So that would be an extra 500k on top of whatever any other school would have to provide that is: 1. an all sports member; 2. within the SBC footprint; 3. plans on staying for a while instead of looking for a temporary home.

I think the Sun Belt currently gets $1 million per school for the college football playoff payout. No matter who is added as football member #12, that adds an additional $1 million so each school gets $1MM. However, if the conference ever goes above 12, the pool of $12MM doesn't increase so the pie gets split into smaller pieces. Now you could argue that the conference could save money by having a tighter geographic footprint and that would make up the difference that you'd lose on splitting the payout with more schools, or the new schools could add more revenue that also makes up the difference.