(12-17-2019 03:13 PM)Jugnaut Wrote: So safe to assume that the MWC will be making significantly less than $3.5 million a school.
The max they can expect is $3M per team except $5M for Boise...
Remains to be seen whether ESPN is involved with Boise, but I suspect Fox got the Boise home package.
If so, ESPN is left with 16 Saturday time slots & 4 Friday time slots open on ESPN2 and ESPNU, most in the final window of the day.
Meanwhile, the American is left with the "chore" of replacing UConn in football if title game deregulation is not passed.
Finally, there appears to be a move afoot to increase the playoff to 8 teams in a few years. If it includes a guaranteed G5 spot, the race is on to improve your conference in football.
Now, ESPN would surely rather more Pac 12 content for those late windows than helping the American orchestrate a raid on Fox's new MWC property.
But I can easily see a scenario where the American takes 1-3 MWC schools and moves to a 12/14-team league with inventory available for ESPN in all time slots.