re: Apologies to WBB, but the LSU baseball team deserves a bigger percentage of rev. share

For one thing they have a lot more people to pay and it is competing with MLB rather than the minimum wage WNBA.

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Then it essentially says over half of the deal is not any type of team specific.
That makes absolutely no sense.

So half of the money we get from ESPN comes from just in general being a University that is in the SEC?

That's patently retarded. Literally every single dollar can be allocated to a sport for every single team in the SEC and every single sport. We all know the vast majority of the deal is for football.

They just don't do it. The SEC doesn't get paid to exist.

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You’re confused because there are multiple media deals in play here. There is a media rights deal for FBS Football which is allocated there on the financial spreadsheet.

There is also a media rights deal for Men’s Basketball so that is also shown there on the financials.

Then there is a 3rd media rights deal that includes all other sports. That’s the “not specific to a sport” part of the financials.

We can debate the actual value of each sport to that overall number, but it would just be a guess. What we do know is WBB was the biggest chunk of that deal according to ESPN.

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ESPN and the NCAA have reached a new, eight-year media rights extension covering the bulk of the NCAA championship events, including the Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament, it was announced Thursday. There had been considerable speculation that the NCAA would sell rights to the women’s tournament separately due to the recent growth in viewership for that event.

Per Sports Business Journal, NCAA president Charlie Baker says the deal is worth $115 million/year, nearly triple the current level of $40 million. Baker told SBJ that the NCAA valued the women’s basketball tournament at $65 million/year.

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Women's basketball is valued at $65 million per tournament in the NCAA's new media rights deal with ESPN -- roughly 10 times more than in the contract that ends this year.

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I produced numbers to show your claims of viewership were wrong and you ignore them and make more emotional rambling posts.

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I don’t believe the numbers. The networks have every incentive to inflate the numbers to try to get people interested in watching unwatchable sports like WBB. You have the NBA and NCAA shoving it down the networks’ throats and the networks have to try to make the case because they’re highly motivated to keep the rights to broadcast the sports that people actually do watch.

Nobody is actually watching that nonsense.

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More than 85% of the NCAA's revenue comes from the national men's basketball tournament. The NCAA men’s national basketball tournament has multiplied its TV revenue nearly 70 times since the early 1980s. This investment has become formidable for both sides of the deal, as the yearly revenue for the annual tournament has now surpassed $1 billion in broadcasting rights alone.

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Women's basketball is valued at $65 million per tournament in the NCAA's new media rights deal with ESPN -- roughly 10 times more than in the contract that ends this year.

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One Billion plus versus 65 Million.
Huge difference

Yes, it is. What’s your point?

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College football gets the most viewers
Then college basketball

After that the others hardly move the needle. It’s fortunate they get on tv at all. They don’t get high enough ratings to come close to the other two.

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This is patently false, and has been shown to be incorrect numerous times on this forum. No doubt football is far and away the most viewed, with MBB a DISTANT second. But, the distance between MBB, WBB and then baseball is much less than the distance between MBB and football. So, getting back to the original quote, WBB should have a TV deal commensurate with their popularity, which his hardly just "moving the needle".

Bobo, I think youre trying for the most "down-voted" record . You deserve it. You suck.

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Apologies to MBB, but the LSU baseball team deserves a bigger percentage of rev. share

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The fact is that no matter how much the media or Mulkey or whomever tries to slam women’s sports down our throats NO ONE really watches it or cares to.

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This simply isn't true. I watch WBB, gymnastics, and softball, just as much as I watch the men's sports. TBH I don't watch MBB very much because they are bad and have been bad since McMan started. A lot of LSU fans watch and attend women's sports. WBB and Gym pack the seats.