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While that's not exactly true (Kansas gets $6 million - $7 million from Time Warner for television only),

One of those schools you refer to is Oklahoma, right?

No, I was referring to Kansas. OU simply isn't going to keep up with the SEC moneywise the next decade. Hence part the of the reason they are putting HALF the money into facilities than they planned not to long ago.

Kansas might keep up with the SEC. Depends on their basketball success level.

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SEC teams get $31 million each for all tiers of TV.

Big 12 teams (on a per-team basis, excluding partial payouts) would receive about $26 million (excluding Tier 3).

That's a difference of $5 million.

I am normally try not to be rude, but you are being an IDIOT. There is no other way to put it.

The numbers you are quoting are THIS YEARS numbers. Aka year 1 of the SEC Network THAT WASN'T EVEN A FULL YEAR. You would be correct that if A&M left this year it would be a $5-6 million gap, but that is because of incomplete numbers.

Next year, and pretty much every year the next ten years, a school like Baylor is going to make ten million dollars a year less OR MORE than what A&M is getting from TV money. This isn't even a bookmarkable post, I can find article after article that talks about how soon the SEC and the B1G will all be making over 35-6 million a year while the other Power 5 conferences will be stuck at around the 25-6 million mark. I am talking about at the numbers that will happen going forward and not basing everything on a one year consideration because its obviously not a perfect data point.

I get it though, in the Big 12 apparently one year is a huge sample size. One year of a playoff and it's already looking at conference games or expansion. So I will just let you know the SEC looks a little more longterm, like what will happen over the next five years. That is what I am talking about.

The whole thread is about A&M going back to the Big 12, which would HAVE TO happen in the future. Aka number from this year simply don't matter more than being an indicator of how awesome it will truly be in the SEC.

But go ahead and beat your chest about some Big 12 teams being ahead in the aberration year just like the commissioner did before he bitched about the LHN. You might want to mentally prepare yourself for next year though when EVERY SEC team does better than any Big 12 team not named Texas (and maybe Kansas). And frick, we might even surpass Texas in five or so years. One just one of us, but ALL of us.

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All Big 12 schools have Tier 3 TV deals.

Kinda. Some aren't even pure Tier 3 deals, it is basically EVERYTHING Fox and ESPN wouldn't buy (so Tier 3 and 4 and even merchandising) to try and get a few million more out of their situation.

If you want to play this game I can pull out one quote after another from important people in the Big 12 who would MUCH MUCH MUCH rather have what the SEC has (aka a Big 12 Network) if that damn LHN wasn't in the way. I wouldn't beat my chest about Texas Tech's all inclusive Tier 3,4,5 deal for a couple million bucks. They would much rather have what we have I promise you. So would everyone in the Big 12 not named Texas, and hell even some Texas fans I have talked to are embarrassed about the obvious failure that is the LHN.

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Any non-delusional, non-aggie fan can clearly see that "The difference between a non-Texas Big 12 team and a SEC team on revenue is almost $10 million a year" is utter horseshite.

I just quoted this so everyone can see the EXACT lack of vision that eventually will doom the Big 12. I am ashamed to say that A&M used to take part in this kind of tunnel vision. I am glad we now have business partners that can show us a better path.