Rutgers to Pay $11.5 Million Exit Fee

[Rebel_Pony]

...to leave AAC:

http://espn.go.com/new-york/college-spo ... -leave-aac

Another good reason to stomp them tomorrow night...

[OhioBrownFan]

B10 will probably pay it. I still am baffled as to why we are adding them.

[LA_Mustang]

My guess is to get the NYC/NJ TV market. They can charge advertisers a lot more money when the market has a dog in the hunt. And obviously, NYC/NJ is biggest tv market in the country.

[Big12Mustang]

...to leave AAC:

http://espn.go.com/new-york/college-spo ... -leave-aac

Another good reason to stomp them tomorrow night...

Agreed. But Rutgers will make up for it with their first annual $25M check from being in Big Ten. Unless they get partial revenue sharing for the first couple of years of course...

[SMU 86]

Unless they get partial revenue sharing for the first couple of years of course...

That was not in the agreement to my knowledge.

[Big12Mustang]

Unless they get partial revenue sharing for the first couple of years of course...

That was not in the agreement to my knowledge.

In that case they will probably get $25M plus whatever B1G makes in their bowl games+College Football Playoff, which could be north of $10M extra per school...so $35M?

[OhioBrownFan]

Unless they get partial revenue sharing for the first couple of years of course...

That was not in the agreement to my knowledge.

They do get partial revenue sharing. Will be the Nebraska plan. They're a member but not really for like 3 years.

[Digetydog]

B10 will probably pay it. I still am baffled as to why we are adding them.

Adding Rutgers to the B10 virtually guarantees that the B10 network will be on every cable package in NJ and the NYC metro area. Plus, they get to bring the B10 teams to the NYC metro area for 5 home games per season.

[PoconoPony]

B10 will probably pay it. I still am baffled as to why we are adding them.

Adding Rutgers to the B10 virtually guarantees that the B10 network will be on every cable package in NJ and the NYC metro area. Plus, they get to bring the B10 teams to the NYC metro area for 5 home games per season.

B10 network has had some issues re rates. My cable company in PA refuses to add another $3 dollars to the monthly bill to pay the rates demanded by the B10 Network. Reasoning is that all customers should not be charged when the network has a limited viewership as people are interested in Penn State only and have little interest in the rest of the B10. Kind of Catch 22. B10 Network generates roughly $22 million per member.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Looking forward to The American Network.

[Mustangs_Maroons]

I've always respected the big 10 conference because or its tradition as the oldest d1 athletic conference and because of the overall strength of many or the founding member schools. ND would have been their home run but when ND did not they got desperate and brought in Nebraska and then Rutgers. You can make a case for Nebraska even though it lost Aau status but adding Rutgers was just a desperate attempt to try to do something as opposed to feeling others would beat them to it. I personally would have preferred ND in the big 10. I feel it makes so much more sense.

[OhioBrownFan]

B10 will probably pay it. I still am baffled as to why we are adding them.

Adding Rutgers to the B10 virtually guarantees that the B10 network will be on every cable package in NJ and the NYC metro area. Plus, they get to bring the B10 teams to the NYC metro area for 5 home games per season.

I understand that obviously, I just don't get what they're adding outside that. Nada basically.

[Digetydog]

B10 will probably pay it. I still am baffled as to why we are adding them.

Adding Rutgers to the B10 virtually guarantees that the B10 network will be on every cable package in NJ and the NYC metro area. Plus, they get to bring the B10 teams to the NYC metro area for 5 home games per season.

I understand that obviously, I just don't get what they're adding outside that. Nada basically.

I agree. When I worked in NYC, Syracuse seemed to have a bigger fanbase.

But, there is a method to their madness in adding MD and Rutgers -> NYC, Baltimore, and DC markets. Even if the home teams are weak, they take their good product (OSU, MSU, Michigan, PSU) to a huge audience.

Btw - I am hoping that Hart will eventually be able to sell that strategy to the SEC or P12. Larry Brown is helping our case. June is not.

[Treadway21]

Don't bring June into this, you'll get swarmed. He is great "at our level."


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Big12Mustang]

I understand that obviously, I just don't get what they're adding outside that. Nada basically.

I agree. When I worked in NYC, Syracuse seemed to have a bigger fanbase.

But, there is a method to their madness in adding MD and Rutgers -> NYC, Baltimore, and DC markets. Even if the home teams are weak, they take their good product (OSU, MSU, Michigan, PSU) to a huge audience.

Btw - I am hoping that Hart will eventually be able to sell that strategy to the SEC or P12. Larry Brown is helping our case. June is not.

SMU will probably be a better fit for the ACC and vice versa than those two conferences that you mentioned. Here are some points that Hart could sell to that conference:

1) We would deliver a huge Dallas audience to watch the ACC brands come and play football/basketball in one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country. Our advantage being that we would be the only ACC team in Texas (just like A&M is the only team in Texas in SEC) and have a chance to take some of the football slice from the Big 12 and possibly the entire DFW basketball audience for that sport.

2) Recruiting for SMU would improve tenfold and we would deliver the best recruiting grounds for Football and Basketball to the conference.

3) Our school and student body feels more like an East Coast school than a Texas school or Southern school (in my opinion), so culturally a better fit for ACC than say Pac 12, Big Ten, SEC.

4) Great for DFW to promote itself as the go to metro area/city in the east coast.

5) We are in the process of demonstrating that a successful SMU can generate DFW and national media conversations and that our brand is hot, that our fanbase has been dormant all this time and that we can deliver the eyeballs and sell out our games when we can compete and especially when we bring big name teams to our stadiums.

Then again, we already knew this. Let's just hope that our conference dreams can come true...just like basketball has made our dream come true...