Big East ONLY Basketball Conference to Top $150 Million in Profits

[Dawson Rental]

The problem I have with all of these statistics is that they make assumptions on the value of the "football part" of a television rights deal and the "basketball part."  Some of these assumptions are solid because they are broken down rather easily, but a lot of them are along the lines of "ESPN is paying $$$ for first and second tier football rights, as well as the right to televise ### basketball games per year."

How do you place a value on each part of that deal?

The take away I get is that BE basketball is very profitable.  Is it "the most" profitable?  Really who knows.  But the BE schools are making money on this, just like a lot of people predicted when the C7 went its own way.

The timing of the FoxSports1 startup, and its need for programming was quite fortuitous. 

[Jay Bee]

Quite perceptive.

For those who don't know, the article which is the subject of this thread was written by John Pudner, an esteemed MU alum who IIRC posts here as bamamarquettefan.  John also does quite well in his day job as a political consultant.

Given that these numbers come from Forbes, and John obviously finds them credible, frankly, I'm skeptical about any other Scoop posters credentials to challenge them.

The numbers do not come from Forbes, they are 5+ years old and they are not valid for their use in the article. It's flawed all the way around. Sorry, but that's the truth.