re: Simple math to explain expansion appetite

I already said it was not as simple as all the $31.2 coming from the SECN, but that the overall add of a new school had to be above that.

I backed off saying it was all SECN, but I stand by that it was biggest game changer. The sites I referenced (all less than a year and a half old and ostensibly well-versed in the issue) all pointed to this.

The actual number just for the SECN is not clear, but overall TV and radio was over $300 million. CBS kicks in 55 of that for Tier 1. Radio has to be a minor part. Let's charitably give it 2 million per school, or 28 million. That means Tier 2 and Tier 3 are probably still over 210 million, and these are the ESPN/SECN games. Someone smarter than me will need to flesh out how all that money gets attributed to either ESPN or SECN, but it is probably immaterial.

What is relatively clear is that the actual revenue for just SECN fees is about 547 million, and the SEC probably get about half that. So, again, we are probably at abut upper teens per school, all in.

Again, my initial run of numbers was too simplistic, and I freely admit it. But I also think it is way off to say that the SEC network only adds $5 million to each school.