Revenue Sharing
(Written by kencraw)
It’s not written from an unbiased or Cal perspective, but I think it’s a very important article to read: Washington AD Scott Woodward pushes for Pac-10 schools to share all revenue.
Short answer of how football revenue is shared:
- All bowl revenue is split evenly between all teams
- Pac-10 conference game TV revenue is split 30%/30%/40% between the home/away/rest of the conference (so each non-participating team gets 5% and each participating team gets 30%)
- Pac-10 conference games, the home team gives the away team $200k in ticket revenue and keeps the rest (most of the time)
- Pac-10 rivalry games, (Big Game, Civil War, etc.) split ticket revenue equally between the two schools
- Non-conference games the teams keep their own money for both ticket and TV revenue (of course the contract with the non-conference opponent will determine how that money is split between the two teams)
Interesting stuff and pretty fair if I must say.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Sounds like it would need USC’s full endorsement since they’ve been The Team in the conference every year for several years. Why should money generated by their program go to a struggling athletic department like Wazzu or Stanfurd?
MLB does this, too. It’s their answer to a salary cap.
Cal, thankfully, isn’t on the outside looking in as much as other Pac10 teams.
Does anyone know what other conferences do in regards to revenue sharing?
July 15th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
the SEC does revenue sharing
if USC shares, it strengthens the conference and, when that happens, their competition isn’t a ten touchdown underdog and their conference games mean more to the community outside of the pac 10
July 15th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Last academic year, SEC schools each got $11.1 million in revenue share. This comes from football and basketball TV, bowl games and the SEC championships.
So the SEC equally shares the football TV and bowl revenue.
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Okay, so my thinking is that if UW had a good team in the last few years then they wouldn’t be proposing this! UW is in a bigger market (Seattle). They should be able to field a good team…they have over 40K in enrollment. I don’t like this. Especially when CA schools will be getting less money from their state governments…ex: CA schools get budget cuts AND have to pay more revenues to non-CA schools…Just a disclaimer: I am UO alumni, and considering that Duck fans typically travel well, sell out home games, and field bowl teams, I dont’ think this is a good idea…my season tickets have already increased in the last two years by about 100 bucks, I’m not down for paying more just so that Stanford can account for all those empty seats when they play WAZOO! Done rambling!