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Originally Posted by Blade6119
Now i can honestly say i dont know the inner-workings of the original agreement, so ill defer to your judgement on the matter. But im guessing schools like Mizzou, Kansas, and Iowa State were not giddy about it then either. It was likely forced upon them by the bigger more popular schools that now make up the south. Most likely, they north schools made concessions to make the conference work...and then when that was required of the south schools recently, they didnt budge. Maybe im wrong, maybe the North schools were ecstatic to be getting disproportionately less money then their counterparts. But i really dont believe it would have taken too much to keep NU or CU around, especially not if the Fox TV offer was as good as speculated. Offer up equal revenue sharing, talk about expansion, get a TV deal on par with those of the other power conferences, and im betting the Big 12 wouldnt be facing these current problems. But that was too much for everyone to agree on sadly.
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Again, the revenue sharing isn't what broke the league apart. The only conference that shares ALL revenues equally is the Big 10. The Big 12 shares all non-TV revenue equally. Of the TV revenue, half of the total is shared equally, and the other half is put into a TV appearances pool, which is divvied up based on broadcasts of football and non-conference basketball games, including the NCAA tournament.
Here's the list, and how much the variance would be if they adopted the Big 10 'total sharing' method:
1. Texas: $10.2 million (+$1.6 mil) (South)
2. Oklahoma: $9.8 million (+$1.2 mil) (South)
3. Kansas: $9.24 million (+$600K) (North)
4. Texas A&M: $9.22 million (+$600K) (South)
5. Nebraska: $9.1 million (+$500K) (North)
6. Missouri: $8.4 million (-$200K) (North)
7. Texas Tech: $8.23 million (-$400K) (South)
8. Kansas State: $8.21 million (-$400K) (North)
9. Oklahoma State: $8.1 million (-$500K) (South)
10. Colorado: $8.0 million (-$600K) (North)
11. Iowa State: $7.4 million (-$1.2 mil) (North)
12. Baylor: $7.1 million (-$1.6 mil) (South)
So basically a little more than $1 million extra total went to schools from the Big 12 South. Hardly a massive imbalance.