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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WVUALLEN" data-source="post: 131742211" data-attributes="member: 1112294">At first glance, the idea of the AAC adding Big 12 teams makes no sense from a financial standpoint, unless those teams are completely out of options or unless ESPN decides those additions somehow make the AAC worth a whole lot more. But ESPN could possibly decide that as part of an overall campaign to claim more college football rights from Fox.In order for the AAC to actually poach Big 12 schools, it’s likely going to have to get its TV deal to a point where it can offer those schools something at least close to what they were making in the Big 12. Or, at the very least, more than what they’d make if they stuck together as an eight-team Big 12, and/or poached replacement schools, including perhaps from the AAC. And from a strict dollars-and-cents point of view, it doesn’t seem easy to get the AAC deal to that number.If ESPN didn’t diminish the per-school payout after UConn’s departure, an average payout of $6.94 million times 11 schools would be $76.34 million annually. To keep that payout the same with two more members, they’d have to throw in another $13.88 million annually. And while that’s certainly doable if there’s no Big 12, ESPN’s approximate half of that deal saves at least $20 million per school per year, the numbers are likely going to have to climb much more than that for former Big 12 schools to join a currently non-Power 5 conference. Consider even an average payout of $30 million a year, just 75 percent of what each school was making in the Big 12 before third-tier rights. That would mean a total ESPN payout to the conference of $390 million per year, $307 million more than it’s currently paying.Let's hope for Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, ISU, KSU that the AAC deal works out for them. Because making 5 million per school leaves them in the dust.[URL unfurl="true"]https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/aac-big-12-expansion-espn.html[/URL]</blockquote>

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