Just got this piece of news from the SEC office — the revenue distribution for the 2009-10 fiscal year. It will make every conference save the Big Ten jealous … or depressed.
Total: $209 million.
According to the league, that’s the highest total in SEC history and represents a 57.7 percent increase from the $132.5 million distributed in 2008-2009.
Average per school: $17.3 million.
That’s about double (maybe a bit more than double) what the Pac-10 distributes to its schools and does not include what the schools generate from their local media deals.
Football TV: $109.5 million.
(Big 12 is in the $60 million range, I believe, while the Pac-10 in the 40s.)
Bowls: $26.5 million.
Football championship game: $14.5 million.
(You can see why Pac-10 commish Larry Scott is looking into a title game of his own.)
Basketball TV: $30 million
SEC tournament: $5 million
NCAA tournament: $23.5 million.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/college...fallen-behind/