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re: Big 12 Courting Notre Dame - Does the SEC Offer?

Posted on 5/22/12 at 4:29 pm to
Posted by Houston Texas Tiger
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Posted on 5/22/12 at 4:29 pm to
The reason Notre Dame to the Big 12 makes sense versus the Big 10/12 is because the Big 12 doesn't split revenues equally. In essence Notre Dame could keep their TV money like the longhorn network. The reason Notre Dame is seriously considering it is for the other non revenue generating sports. They need a conference with some validity in those sports. All about the money.
Posted by attheua
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Member since Apr 2008
5442 posts
Posted on 5/22/12 at 4:34 pm to
ND would give up football before it joined the Big 12
Posted by ATX Horn
Member since Aug 2011
547 posts
Posted on 5/22/12 at 4:44 pm to
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The reason Notre Dame to the Big 12 makes sense versus the Big 10/12 is because the Big 12 doesn't split revenues equally.

No. The Big 12 splits Tier 1 and 2 money equally...each school get to keep their Tier 3 rights(Longhorn Network).

Notre Dame would like the model of owning their Tier 3 rights instead of turning them over like they would have to do in the B1G because of the conference network. One of a few reasons some Domers would never wish to join that conference.

Texas has been recruiting them to the Big 12 for a number of years now.
Posted by Big12fan
Dallas
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 5/22/12 at 4:51 pm to
quote:

The reason Notre Dame to the Big 12 makes sense versus the Big 10/12 is because the Big 12 doesn't split revenues equally. In essence Notre Dame could keep their TV money like the longhorn network. The reason Notre Dame is seriously considering it is for the other non revenue generating sports. They need a conference with some validity in those sports. All about the money.


This. They will be free to negotiate for their own network and get their share of the conference tv revenue. I believe that their current deal with NBC runs thru 2015. At that point, who knows what the landscape will look like. Hard to imagine the Big East being a major conference anymore and the ACC has potential to breakup, so I doubt that those options will be attractive enough. Plus, playing in Texas at least twice a year can't hurt their recruiting.
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