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SEC in National Championship game solidarity thread : Why give away 20M a year?
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:53 am
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:53 am
Check in here if you want the SEC to win tonight
From this article in Forbes LINK
That’s not a ton of money, especially once you start breaking it down at a per-school level – Wichita State’s Final Four run will only earn the school an extra $80,000 or so per year – but it adds up quickly when a major conference has multiple schools making deep runs. Take, for instance, the ACC, which last year took home $18 million – or nearly 10% of the total distribution – from the 74 tournament units its teams won over the previous six tournaments. The Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East (prior to splitting) all netted over $20 million.
This year the ACC has six teams in the big dance, which means the conference is assured $1.5 million this year and another $8 million over the next five just from this year’s tournament – and that’s assuming all of those teams lose their first-round games. If just one team makes a run to the Final Four, it will add another $1.1 million to the conference take in each of the next six years.
From this article in Forbes LINK
That’s not a ton of money, especially once you start breaking it down at a per-school level – Wichita State’s Final Four run will only earn the school an extra $80,000 or so per year – but it adds up quickly when a major conference has multiple schools making deep runs. Take, for instance, the ACC, which last year took home $18 million – or nearly 10% of the total distribution – from the 74 tournament units its teams won over the previous six tournaments. The Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East (prior to splitting) all netted over $20 million.
This year the ACC has six teams in the big dance, which means the conference is assured $1.5 million this year and another $8 million over the next five just from this year’s tournament – and that’s assuming all of those teams lose their first-round games. If just one team makes a run to the Final Four, it will add another $1.1 million to the conference take in each of the next six years.
This post was edited on 4/7/14 at 10:52 pm
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Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:54 am to Cheese Grits
I don't know man it's hard to cheer against Kevin Ollie
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:55 am to Cheese Grits
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:55 am to Cheese Grits
Hell yea. SEC represent, go UK!
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:55 am to Cheese Grits
frick Kentucky
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:56 am to Cheese Grits
I'm pulling for y'all and wish you the best of luck.
I'm not a UK fan by any means, but I do enjoy watching a team of great athletes click at the best time possible.
I'm not a UK fan by any means, but I do enjoy watching a team of great athletes click at the best time possible.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:56 am to Cheese Grits
Go Cats
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:56 am to Cheese Grits
I find UCONN easy to root against.
Let's do this Kentucky. Hoping Aaron kills it.
Let's do this Kentucky. Hoping Aaron kills it.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:58 am to Cheese Grits
Can I check in if I don't give a rat's arse who wins!
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:00 am to Cheese Grits
The Texan Embassy supports our esteemed colleagues from the University of Kentucky 
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:02 am to Cheese Grits
if you weren't playing UCONN i probably wouldn't be pulling for yall but
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:03 am to Cheese Grits
I think I will be pulling for Kentucky.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:04 am to Cheese Grits
Go UConn
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:09 am to Cheese Grits
Not really sure why anyone, other than perhaps Tennessee or Florida, really hates Kentucky in the conference.
Yeah, they have annoying fans, but it's not like the remainder of teams are good enough, often enough, to really consider them a rival.
Yeah, they have annoying fans, but it's not like the remainder of teams are good enough, often enough, to really consider them a rival.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:10 am to Cheese Grits
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Check in here if you want the SEC to win tonight
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:16 am to Cheese Grits
Go BAZZZ, go Ollie, go UConn
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:23 am to Cheese Grits
I'm in, Go Gats.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:27 am to Cheese Grits
and screw any SEC fanbase who doesn't. If your excuse for not pulling for UK is that you don't want them getting your recruits...you're dreaming....your team probably has no chance at the kids they get. 
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:30 am to Cheese Grits
I'm not an SEC rah,rah guy but just knowing how an SEC title in basketball would drive the Big 10 and ACC out of their minds is worth rooting for Kentucky.
Plus UConn's coach Ollie sounds like he stopped taking English in about 4th Grade. May be a great guy and coach, but what an embarrassment to the university when he speaks.
Plus UConn's coach Ollie sounds like he stopped taking English in about 4th Grade. May be a great guy and coach, but what an embarrassment to the university when he speaks.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:32 am to Cheese Grits
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solidarity
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