Good story from Brent Schrotenboer of the San Diego Union-Tribune on the financial windfall for the Mountain West Conference from getting a couple teams into the Sweet 16 of this year’s NCAA Tournament.
As the article states, each team in the conference gets a share of the revenue for each NCAA Tournament game played by a member school. Every game played is worth $240,000 to the conference. BYU and San Diego State have already played two games each with at least one more to go, and UNLV played one, giving the conference about $1.7 million (seven games multiplied by $240,000) to share every year over the next six years. That pays for a few CollegeInsider.com Tournament appearances.
That number will grow if San Diego State and BYU continue to win. So it’s pretty easy to figure out who Air Force’s athletic department will be rooting for this week.
Will BYU, Utah, TCU get any of that money – since they are leaving???
I wonder how that works
Falcon, the story does a good job explaining it – the money for games played by departing schools goes to the conference but the schools don’t get a share of the money once they’re gone. Only 8 teams will be sharing the money next year – but money made by BYU stays with the conference, they don’t take that with them.
The article fails to mention after next year it will be split ten ways with the addition of Nevada and Fresno. I would still rather go door to door selling 30,000 $1 dollar candy bars for the benefit of AFA than ever have to cheer on BYU, college sports are so much better when all money aspects are left aside. Do you think Army would cheer on Navy for 30K??????