It benefits them from a stability standpoint. They realize - financially - they are a second tier conference behind the BIG and SEC and their individual members know the BIG and SEC don’t want them so they aren’t all trying to jump ship. So collectively they have accepted their lot and are focused on trying to make the best of it.
this is a fair assessment from my perspective. in business, we call it "facing the brutal fact." i believe yormark and the conference membership have done that, while the p12 stands on principle.
would not be surprised to see yormark take some basketball brands like gonzaga and and maybe even nova, then separate the basketball and football media deals.
Basketball typically produces 20 to 25 percent of a conferences media package. The ACC is a little different in that BB produces about 30 to 35 percent. There are a handful of programs that are much more valuable than the rest. They are predictably; North Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, Louisville, UCLA, Arizona.
Basketball is completely irrelevant to conference and network negotiations. The only thing that anyone cares about is the Tournament and that revenue is separate from those.
I've heard a couple of credible sources say Gonzaga & St Mary's are both high on the Big East's list along with Notre Dame basketball
a better landing spot than the conference filled with non-football playing traditional basketball power Jesuit schools literally exactly the same as Gonzaga?
it's all about the money, kk, you know that. you've been preaching that for some time here.
of course
Big East media deal ends after next season
you seem to think your opinions (the entirety of this post) weigh heavily in these decisions.
The Big 12 probably has a shot at Gonzaga. Since the Zags are usually stuck playing on ESPNU at 11:00 p.m. Eastern time, even the Big 12s less-than-stellar TV coverage would appeal to them.
Creighton is a more realistic target, but I don't even think they'll walk away from the Big East's TV deal. Plus I doubt McDermott is dying to go back to the Big 12, even if there's a bit more money to be made.
The NCAA tournament will either be stripped away from the NCAA, or the money will be distributed to the conferences. This will happen. Too much money being made by a nearly 'gone' organization. It will significantly narrow the gap.
the NCAA already distributes money for NCAA bids
The Big 12 has by far the highest average percentage of BB attendance per venue, at about 75%. Big 10 is at about 65%. SEC, surprisingly 63%. The PAC...33%, which is why Dana Altman went on his tirade a few nights ago after the Oregon home game where 3300 fans showed up. He is pissed. It's a West coast problem, or really as Brett McMurphy says, college football in particular is dying in the Western third of the country. It is one huge, great playground with too much to do for this new generation, definitely not the case in the Midwest and the South. If there is a school in the PAC that will jump, regardless of some patched up streaming money deal that will give no exposure for recruiting, it will be Arizona. Colorado students are into powder...snow that is. The Big 12 will not add Gonzaga or Creighton, not a chance. If Yormark cannot get one or a combination of corner schools, he will wait a few years until the ACC gets picked apart and see who is left. Florida St., and Clemson are rattling the hell out of the cage already.
that's a thoughtful post. i happen to disagree on adding a couple basketball schools. i sense yormark sees basketball as an untapped cash cow. and adding the zags and another like hoops program could be part of his larger strategy. we'll see. it won't be long after the dance that decision is made.
Sure, but Arizona dwarfs the rest of the PAC-12 in terms of BB attendance. Colorado actually does better than most of the conference, although that isn't saying much.
I have never agreed when people say that too much to do is the reason people don't go to games. People have hobbies no matter where they live. The biggest problem is the west has a lot of transplants and no real tradition. I would argue there is as much to do in Michigan in October as LA in October. It's 6 or 7 home games a year for football.
That's such a misleading and terrible statistic to use as a metric. That has more to do with the fact that of the top 25 largest college basketball arenas by capacity only 2 are in the Big 12 (and are #22and #23) as it does with anything else.
This may be what you are looking for - NCAA BB, average per game attendance by conference.
