PeteRasche wrote:
They get $41M per year from TV and we get $1.7M. So, yeah.
However, ticket costs are not what's funding or not funding the football program (as evidenced in sentence above). That's just "how much can we charge that people will pay to attempt to pay for the actual costs of putting on the game?" Basic supply and demand. Demand being driven by a number of things, from customer loyalty to convenience to gameday experience to cost to expected entertainment level to, heck, does it conflict with little Sally's soccer game.
I'd think - well, I'd hope, but this IS Tulane - that people have done supply and demand studies. Again, this is Tulane, so "some person in Wilson guesses at public sentiment" might be the extent of the thought given to pricing for various games. At least it would have been during the prior regime.
Just a few numbers. The 41 referenced is the top of the top, not what say Wake, Wazzou, or TCU is getting. AAC chatter is Aresco is aiming for 10+ per school in our next contract which begins in '20 I believe. That would be 40% of what the TCU's, Wazzou's, and Wake's of the world are getting.
The SEC's ranged from $41.9 million to $39.1 million.
The Big Ten gave about $34.8 million to each of its 11 longest-standing members, and smaller amounts to Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers.
The Big 12's ranged from $28.9 million to $28 million.
The Pac-12's were about $28.7 million per school.
As far as total "American earned $42.179 million in postseason tournaments, including money generated from the NCAA Tournament, revenue from appearances in bowl games and a share of the College Football Playoff as mandated by the playoff management group."
In 2016-17, South Florida received $8.877 million from the AAC, followed by UConn ($8.088 million), Cincinnati ($7.659 million), Houston ($5.410 million), Tulsa ($4.937 million) and Temple ($4.920 million). USF, UConn and Cincinnati are still receiving payments as part of the $70 million in exit fees for being former members of the Big East Conference, according to the Hartford Courant.
Memphis ($4.684 million), UCF ($4.042 million) East Carolina ($3.737 million), SMU ($3.701 million), Tulane ($3.587 million) and Navy ($2.623 million) account for the rest of the league’s revenue breakdown.