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Originally Posted by |Zach|
The Big Ten gets 70 cents a month per subscriber within the conference’s footprint. So, 70 cents x 12 months x 2.2 million homes = $18,480,000. That’s how much the conference would make per year from the Big Ten Network alone if Missouri were to join the league.
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Yup. Kinda crushes the "The Big Ten won't add more than one team/it dilutes the payouts too much" argument I've seen bandied about on Phog.net, doesn't it?
That's why the Big Ten will add five teams...
Missouri, Nebraska, Syracuse, Pitt and Rutgers (Notre Dame would dump Pitt or Rutgers if it changes its mind).
The cable subscribers alone pay for the teams that are being added. Then you throw in the $35-40 million the four-team, three-game football playoff brings, the increased hoops revenue, and so on... and you see why Big Jim Delaney is making this happen.
That creating a 16-team megaconference in football will spark further realignment and eventually kill the BCS and NCAA helps, too.
Make no mistake, the Big Ten sees this as an opportunity to strike the NCAA. College sports' future is four-superconferences encompassing 64-70 teams.
Everyone else? I guess they can stay in the NCAA, which is going to eventually become a "minor" league.