Why should Notre Dame care about this?
Here's why - the current deal, at $55M/yr, is a phenomenal deal for CBS. It expires in 2023. The new deal will be north of $300M/yr. Reportedly, CBS balked when things hit that high. ABC/ESPN expected to win the new contract. At the $300M+ level, when you include revenue from the SEC Network, each SEC team will be getting north of $60M/yr. We already know that each B10 team gets over $50M/yr in TV revenue.
Suddenly, the ND/NBC deal looks very weak, at $15M/yr. Simply put, we are being left behind, financially.
In the context of ND's endowment, it is not important. At $13B+, a TV deal of $15M is a rounding error. But I doubt ND will sit still while revenue for the rest of the P5 explodes.
Let's hope they don't overreact and do something really dumb.
Within three years
Write it down.
Thank God.
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I think you are wrong. If/when we join a conference, I am done w/ ND football.
The bet is....by Jan 1, 2023, ND football will be in a conference.
The loser agrees to not post on the uhnd.com football board for a period of one year. Deal?
Sounds too personal for you.
It will be the best thing that ever happened in the last ten years for ND football....
It's ridiculous to continue to be independent....
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How many insurance, auto and beer ads can you handle in one day? The games will average four hours in length.
I doubt ESPN pays them anything close to that much, and the conference networks may not last much longer.
I predict the SEC TV package goes for over $300M/yr.
You are wrong about the conference tv networks. They print money. I haven’t been a cable subscriber for years and I still get access to them via HULU.
Their reigns will be pulled in, especially now that CBS has dropped out at a far lower price.
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Joining the conference has been an incredible boon to the entire athletic program. You look at this through the lens of football only. The decision had far less to do with football than finding a conference from which to build a sports brand beyond football - using football and the incredible brand already created to leverage a home for all other programs. Why care so much about not getting in a better but still meaningless bowl?
The overall brand is much better now than it was and the deal was made at a critical juncture in conference alignments - the overall brand is so much stronger now than before
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then it would carry the equivalent weight of a triple dog dare..lucky for you he didn't know that.
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Winning cures all of these problems, obviously. This is only an issue when we don't win football national championships every decade.
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They get around $7-8 million a year now from the ACC and would get an additional $20 million at least if they joined the ACC in football. There is really no financial future for football as an independent. The NBC deal is an albatross and even if they could negotiate doubling the annual NBC revenue ( which I doubt would happen either now or after the current contract expires) their TV revenue would still never come close to what the SEC and B1G teams are getting now and in the future. Plus their bowl options suck unless they go undefeated or at least lose no more than 1 game. Maybe that doesn’t matter to the administration, but I wonder if the failure to even pretend the last 2 home games were sellouts will cause them to rethink their strategy.
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Well, maybe a little a flurry of times....