Sports Business Journal reported last month that the Big 12 media deals likely will bring the conference slightly more than the ACC, some $160 million annually.
With the addition of bowl and NCAA Tournament revenue, the Big 12 eventually will be distributing $200 million to its 10 members.
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Question is how would that get distributed?
Obviously TX, TAM, and OU are getting the $20M they were promised. Wonder how the split would be after that?
That's not how this works. Those 3 schools won't automatically get $20M from the TV distribution. It will be distributed the same way it always has. It is likely that when this TV distribution is combined with other revenue distribution, those three schools (and others) will be at $20M or so. If for some reason they are not (and it is very unlikely they wouldn't) that is when the other 5 schools would make up the difference.
During the conf issues we kept hearing that the B12 doesn't have equal distribution. What is the distribution?
TV distribution is based on how many times you are on, and which network. So playing on FCS isn't as good as ESPN (FCS we basically break even, ESPN we make $$). So yes, it is unequal since if you're on a bunch, like Texas, then you make more off TV than schools that aren't on as much, like us or ISU. In the big 10, everybody's TV money goes into a pot and is broken up 11 ways — so even if you're tOSU and on TV way more than NW would be, because of the Big10 network you both make the same. Many folks in the Big 12 like the meritocracy: win more, make more.
Other things are distributed this way as well in the Big12, like postseason basketball. What you heard K-State throw around a bunch was that we and Baylor made more money than any team in the Big 12 off the NCAA tourney, because we went the furthest. The remaining schools in the Big12 all like this setup, because it rewards success.
Most of the other revenue distribution is equal — bowl money, championship game(s), etc. And really, the "unequal" part of the total distribution amounts to only a few million bucks, which really isn't that big a deal to the top revenue schools.
