Fro, I have no data to dispute your numbers so even accepting them as fact, the bottom line is that the national cachet of Nebraska makes them a HUGE target. We are a branded name, and our overall revenue is among the tops in the NCAA. No matter how you slice it, Nebraska is a major player in this game.
Certainly on a national scale in football Nebraska's name is more prominent than anyone else in the North. That really can't be debated. As for what we all bring to the table... there are various ways to look at it, and you can make an argument in favor of Missouri as well as Nebraska. Regardless, I think both are attractive to the Big 10, and I think both "get invited" to the Big 10.
With the announcement of the Pac-10 offer to half the Big 12, I think it only more likely that Missouri and Nebraska end up in the Big 10. Once we're there, does it really matter who they wanted more? Especially when we all know they want Notre Dame most of all?
I wasnt debating NU's worth. More like a numbers laced rant at the dumb*** Ill. fan who is making stuff up. Nebraska brings the bucks Knappy. I was just showing the numbers are not skewed like he claims. As I said, NU is a national product. They more than make up for the small footprint with a great number of fans. as stated they would bring more than their share of revunue. Not at all a knock buddy. I just try to point examples to the board. I could have done it with MU/KU since he claims they bring in more $$ from TV, but I thought with it being a husker board and all...
I just think he was mad because Ill. dropped the MU game since they kept losing and now there is talk of it being a conference game :nutz
I guess I don't quite get the numbers for TV revenue. How much does the Big 10 network cost subscribers? I thought that if it was not included in your basic (or premium) cable, it was an additional amount per month. If NU has a large national fan base and a small population base in state, would it not bring a tremendous amount of revenue to the Big 10 from Texas, California, Arizona, Colorado, etc?
The network, in this case the BTN, would be included within a package from your provider. Like ESPN Classic and ESPN U. It would be paired and available to most cable subscribers in the footprint. National subscribers are very simular, with the exception that the channels are not always availble and ussually would be in a even higher tier of channels. Channels work out a tier fee schedule with the cable companies. Because of the deals the channel, BTN in this case, works out with the cable companies they normally would recieve $.70 to .80 cents per household in the footprint. The non-footprint (national) household would earn about $.05 to .10 per the deal for the network. The reason the footprint makes more is within the deal with the cable company. For example, the BTN, should NE join, could go to Cox and say, We have what you want, pony up. Where as in say, Alabama their cable company would not be put in the same situation. They could tell the BTN, we will carry your channel, but only pay X amount. The cable company stands to make more in ad rev with a channel that hits the local footprint, so they are willing to pay more. As far as the premium you pay your provider for those extra channels, that is split between all the channels you get with the tier and the cable company. Make sense??
And you are right that Nebraska would bring in money. If expansion was only about increased funds per the home states, NU would be out. There is no way the state alone could generate enough funds to increase the per team payout. However we all know that there are more husker fans than just those in NE. So all the fans that will pay the premiums to get the channel make Nebraska viable source of TV income. Its safe to say that NE could generate more funds easily than other teams being taked about if they had a large home state. As it stands they are profitable for the BTN on NE fans alone and because of their name they add to the likelyhood that CFB fans, would consider picking up the channel.
I took this quote from a story in the Pittsburgh Tribune
If the 2.2 million households in Missouri started earning the Big Ten Network the 70-cent basic-tier fee rather than the 10-cent out-of-region pay, that would equal potentially an extra $1.5 million per month
saying basically that even though many Missourians can now get the BTN, that if MU were in the Big10, the BTN could charge the footprint fee instead of national fee and that would result in an extra 1.5 mill a month. Thats why the footprint fees are important. But not the final say. Because as I stated above, NE carries lots of fans nationwide. Enough people would generate the out-of-region pay for the BTN that NE would make more than their fair share of the cut in money. It would just take alot of fans in CA, AZ, TX & CO to generate the funds that a large footprint state could. Like the example in my first post that 14 out-of region husker fans make the BTN $.70 and one guy in Omaha would make $.70 also.
I hope that answers your questions.