2024 Offseason

[jaykorver]

Yeah Matt Norlander said Creighton has committed to playing in this tournament through 2026.

[SeattleJay]

Seattle U and Grand Canyon to WCC.

Is the WCC worried about losing Gonzaga?

[Wizard of Westroads]

Stating the obvious:

[gtmoBlue]

by DC_JAY » Sat May 11, 2024 9:33 am

"Rumors as well that the 2024 NIL Tourney schools are signing three-year deals to participate. The tournament would likely expand in 2025 to include additional programs. Time will tell if this is another harbinger of college sports' demise, but regardless, it is huge for Creighton to be the only Big East program with a seat at the table."

According to Norlander's articles in May, the organizers were looking for a BEast team to fill that last spot (only one spot). Jays athletics jumped on the opportunity to garner additional NIL bucks. This initially appears to be an excellent, groundbreaking MTE opportunity.

[WBR Tom]

Andrew Marchand, who's more plugged into this stuff than almost anyone, reports the Big East is close to a deal with NBC and TNT as secondary rights partners. Fox/FS1, as expected, will continue as the primary TV partner and home of the Big East tourney.

NBC's package would stream on Peacock. TNT Sports would have a split between their cable network and Max. And CBS is still in talks to continue their sub-licensed package from Fox. So if CBS re-ups, three of the four broadcast networks plus Warner Bros. Discovery would have a stake in Big East hoops. Wow.

Notably, it mentions women's basketball is included in the NBC/TNT deals, so maybe the league will shift a bunch of games there instead of FloSports?

No dollar figures reported yet, but with three or four partners involved it wouldn't be a surprise to see the payout to each school bump pretty substantially. The league got $50.5m in 2023 from Fox; maybe they can get to $70-75m from these combined deals and make up for the shortfall from the NCAA settlement?

[NYC-bluejay]

Ugh… good if the conference ends up making more money, but horrible for fans to get our games shoved on peacock. Max is fine, but having our games now split across 3 services instead of fox being a one stop shop adds tedium to figuring out how to watch games.

[BellevueJay]

Ugh… good if the conference ends up making more money, but horrible for fans to get our games shoved on peacock. Max is fine, but having our games now split across 3 services instead of fox being a one stop shop adds tedium to figuring out how to watch games.

My hope is that this is for all sports, and they are just pointing out the basketball tourney. If I never have to try and use FloSports ever again, this will be a major W.

[WBR Tom]

Best guess, as I dig more into this, is the deal will break out like this:

Tier 1 - Fox/FS1 (50% of the inventory plus most of the Big East Tourney)
Tier 2 - TNT with simulcast on Max (25% plus a portion of the Big East Tourney)
Tier 3 - Split between Peacock and CBSSN (25%)

Basically, Fox/FS1 will continue to have the top games, and the ones that aren't will be on TNT. DePaul is going to play on Peacock all the time. And November/December buy games that probably shouldn't have been on basic cable to begin with will now be on Peacock.

[Savannah Jay]

Ugh… good if the conference ends up making more money, but horrible for fans to get our games shoved on peacock. Max is fine, but having our games now split across 3 services instead of fox being a one stop shop adds tedium to figuring out how to watch games.

One stop shop? We had games on 3 different Fox networks (Fox, FS1, FS2) last year, plus CBS, CBS Sports Network, and ESPN2 (oh, and TNT and TBS in the tournament). Add Flo Sports for Bahamas exhibition games. That's 9 different "stops" last year. While I did not take channel surfing at Creighton, I have subsequently managed to find my Bluejays if the game is broadcast which, these days, is all of them. Cheers.

[gtmoBlue]

Hmmm...

Great stuff PFro, excellent find.

While your projected numbers are an increase, they do not reflect the fact that BEast Men's Basketball is currently top tier/Tier 1 hoops content, worth approx. $270K/game. Last time (2013) we got Tier 4 money for our content $138-150K/game.

Here we are 4 NCAA Basketball Championships later; continuing to put great product on the court. I expect the BE to get somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 Million x 6 years. Roughly $83.3M per year, with an expandibiity clause for UConn and the 3-4 new teams from the imploding ACC. Works out to be $8.33Mill/per team annually, for the Media Rights contract only.

I like your breakdown. I'd tweek it a bit...
Fox 40% 133 games, CBS 10% 30 games, TNT & NBC 25% each - 86 games each.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/A ... ls-fox-cbs