Quote:@McMurphyESPN: NBC Sports Network offers Big East $20M-$23M/year for media rights, sources tell @ESPN

No conformation yet, but if this is TOTAL, then the nBE is toast. Would mean UH, Tulane, SMU would be losing money in the move to nBE.

If it is PER team, WOW... Don't want to see what the B1G gets...

amazing if true

cant be per team or they would have accepted already lol

it really shouldn't be that surprising. Most of the good teams are leaving and UCONN & Cincy are just waiting for the next life raft to ACC. They might have big markets, but the programs leave a lot to be desired

(02-09-2013 08:55 PM)laxtonto Wrote:  

Quote:@McMurphyESPN: NBC Sports Network offers Big East $20M-$23M/year for media rights, sources tell @ESPN

No conformation yet, but if this is TOTAL, then the nBE is toast. Would mean UH, Tulane, SMU would be losing money in the move to nBE.

If it is PER team, WOW... Don't want to see what the B1G gets...

Before everybody panics, or breaks out the I-told-you-sos, depending which side of the fence they sit on:

1. This could be for PART of the rights.
2. NBC-SN is very, very cheap.
3. It's an offer, not a final contract.

1- Let's see if Fox, ESPN, or others counterbid.

2- If this is that low CUSA is getting slashed.

Not for entire deal. BE is splitting up deal.

There's more big news on there:
The Catholic 7 schools -- DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Villanova -- haven't formed a new league yet, but Fox Sports has been the leader for their media rights after approaching the schools before they had even left the Big East, sources said. Fox Sports' offer would be worth $30 million to $40 million a year depending on how many teams are in the league, sources said.

"Barring a hiccup," Fox Sports will land the media rights deal for the Catholic 7's new league, a source said

The Catholic 7 schools still must form a league, decide on a commissioner, bylaws, location, championships, compliance rules and how many schools they will add. They are expected to initially target Butler and Xavier out of the Atlantic 10, and possibly grow to 10 or 12 teams with candidates among Creighton, Dayton, Saint Louis, Richmond and VCU.

The Fox and NBC deals are part of the reasoning why the Catholic 7 is still holding out hope it could leave in the fall of 2013. To do so, though, they would need other schools to buy their way out of the A-10 and possibly the Missouri Valley if Creighton is invited.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...ghts-deals

If the C7 are getting $4M a year per school for hoops, the future Big East will be getting more than that for football & basketball.

40 million would be 3.33 million going to 12 teams. 30 million would be 3 million going to 10 teams.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN

About $2 million RT @ogHuidekoper: @McMurphyESPN what's that get per team?

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN

Football, remaining/new Big East members RT @jaemoe33: @McMurphyESPN is this the football BE or the basketball BE?

(02-09-2013 09:08 PM)S11 Wrote:  1- Let's see if Fox, ESPN, or others counterbid.

2- If this is that low CUSA is getting slashed.

Why would this collection of schools make much more than they did in CUSA? Why would MTSU, UNT, FIU, FAU get as much as those schools did in CUSA?

Truth is...they shouldn't. Just changing chairs and logos adds little real honest-to-goodness value.

$23 million is a little less than $2 million per school in a 12 team football conference. The CUSA schools would be better off staying where they are...

Holy crap. Dodds is saying that ESPN owns right-of-first-refusal on the Big East rights.

"NBC Sports Network verbally offered the Big East between $20 million and $23 million per year for six years to acquire the league's media rights, sources told ESPN.....

NBC Sports Network is expected to submit an official offer to the Big East by next week. Once the Big East receives an official offer from NBC Sports Network, the league must give ESPN, the Big East's current rights-holder, the opportunity to match the deal."

Nothing in there about Aresco telling NBC to take that offer and stick it where the sun don't shine, either. Wow.

This has got to be just for basketball. Otherwise........

(02-09-2013 09:20 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  Holy crap. Dodds is saying that ESPN owns right-of-first-refusal on the Big East rights.

"NBC Sports Network verbally offered the Big East between $20 million and $23 million per year for six years to acquire the league's media rights, sources told ESPN.....

NBC Sports Network is expected to submit an official offer to the Big East by next week. Once the Big East receives an official offer from NBC Sports Network, the league must give ESPN, the Big East's current rights-holder, the opportunity to match the deal."

Nothing in there about Aresco telling NBC to take that offer and stick it where the sun don't shine, either. Wow.

Maybe he finally realizes that there is very little to distinguish the nbe from the MWC, CUSA and other nAQ leagues

(02-09-2013 09:19 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(02-09-2013 09:08 PM)S11 Wrote:  1- Let's see if Fox, ESPN, or others counterbid.

2- If this is that low CUSA is getting slashed.

Why would this collection of schools make much more than they did in CUSA? Why would MTSU, UNT, FIU, FAU get as much as those schools did in CUSA?

Truth is...they shouldn't. Just changing chairs and logos adds little real honest-to-goodness value.

1. They upgraded somewhat, UConn, Cincy, USF, Temple vs USM, Marshall, UAB, Rice, UTEP.
2. Basketball is a lot better with 4 tournament-quality programs instead of 1 in CUSA. OTOH, the A-10 had 4 tournament-quality programs and they got $5M per year for the league.
3. The upward march of TV rights fees continues. FoxSports1 and 2 are rolling out.

So I thought they'd double their TV revenues.

I can't believe that Fox wouldn't beat this offer just to have programming on FS2 and some RSN content for Fox Sports Southwest and maybe Fox RSN's in NY/CT and Florida.

those numbers cant be right. there has got to be more coming from somewhere

I think these are low ball numbers. The Big East will likely stay with ten members...

Central Florida
Cincinnati
Connecticut
East Carolina
Houston
Memphis
South Florida
SMU
Temple
Tulane

I think that lineup ends up with about $50mil a year, or about $5mil per team every year.