(01-07-2020 11:48 AM)Soobahk40050 Wrote:  

(01-06-2020 09:22 PM)JRsec Wrote:  I was going to withhold this bit of information, but what the heck! This afternoon I tuned into to Finebaum because of the guests and one of them Vince Thompson (Class of '84 Auburn) had some interesting things to say about a great many things. He's an Atlanta based CEO who handles some interesting accounts ESPN Game Day, 19 Final Fours, Coca-Cola, etc (Google him). He said when all of the contract is finalized between the SEC and ABC/ESPN that each conference member school may well be making 40 million more than under their old contract with CBS. He suggested the final total may go beyond 500 million.

Well forty million more than 2018's reported amount would 83.1 Million. Forty million more than what is anticipated for this year might well be in the 86 million dollar range.

At that kind of payout I would think it likely that the whole ESPN contract was renewed along with the ABC bid, and who knows but it's high enough that it might even have a little expansion baked into it.

We'll see. But if Thompson is correct the SEC is going to well fixed moving forward and hard to catch.

This should spur a little more healthy speculation for sure!

That number seems high to me in the streaming era. But also, "baking in expansion" seems like a bad move. One of the reason CBS lost us is because the didn't add value when we got A&M/Missouri. If the cost was baked in, then the SEC could start complaining that we should be going to $90+ with an addition like OK/Texas. It would seem smarter to me to have language guaranteeing at least pro-rated money for any expansion, preferably additional money for each school after expansion.

Then again, you'd have to have further clauses to clarify that, i.e, say which schools were valuable enough to trigger that raise, which would be a major no-no. Otherwise the SEC would grab any two schools and force the raise.

You aren't quite grasping how you bake in such a thing. All of the presidents would know but would be legally punished if they leaked the information. Therefore it is not like CBS where massive markets were added and CBS refused to help pay for them even though they derived benefit of them.

And the amounts are not overvalued if part of the reason the numbers are so high is that the T2 and T3 portions were renewed early by ESPN to coincide expiration dates and to help lure our agreement to the their sum.