(04-10-2013 10:45 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  There's a lot of faulty math here because it is working in a vacuum and not accounting for the entire picture.

There is more to the picture than CFP money.

Let's say Conference A is at 14, B is at 12, and C is at 16

In CFP money A is worth $857,000 per team, B $1 million and C $750,000

But if A averages 2 NCAA units earned per year, B averages 1, and C averages 3 what does that do to the equation?

A is worth $1.09, B is worth $1.14, C is worth $1.07

That's before you inject TV dollars, CFP ranking dollars, and CFP appearance dollars.

But let's back up to that first line which was just CFP dollars the gap between the best per team and worst is equal to selling 600 more tickets in football and basketball per game a reachable number if the worst per team is regionalized and the best isn't. By the time you inject the other factors if you increase ticket sales and cut your travel cost your athletic department has more spendable money even if the amount in the check at the end of the year from the conference is smaller.

What you are saying is extremely misleading. The C conference, which only could be C-USA, isn't going to get 3 units any time in the near future. So they won't have that ability to make up the difference there at all. Right now, there is a difference of 6 units between CUSA and SBC the next 6 years- or 250k per year. 3 of those units are scheduled in 2015. There is little/no difference in SBC, MAC, and CUSA basketball units right now. So CUSA can't/won't make up the difference there at all. Sure, if CUSA was good in basketball that would be different, but the fact of the matter is that they aren't. Likely will be a 1 bid league going forward almost every single year, just like the MAC and the SBC.