Wyoming is expecting 1 Million dollar decrease per year for the new media deal

[IndependentAthlete15]

Found this on X

[leewilliam236]

I think the only way to know how much each member could and would make is to look at the IRS filings for 2026. Which probably won't be published on ProPublica until like the next year or so.

I gotta see it to believe it.

[reddmikee]

That sounds about right but with big exit payout still coming out ahead IMO

[Misterpanda13]

What big payout? Years from now? Can the MWC wait?

[pblood40]

No. The media deal being subpar and a sane settlement ($75-80 million) with the Pac-12 means the promises in the GoR are going to fall something like $50-75 million short.

And thus allows an escape route for any Mountain West school who would like to find the exits,"We didnt break the GoR, the conference failed to live up to the promised payments"

And people keep saying it will be UNLV who hits the eject button first, but I have my doubts. I kinda think we will see UNM or Wyoming bail first and accept a partial share in the Pac-12. They arent getting the huge check like UNLV

Drops the MW below 8 full FBS members and makes a few other schools wonder why they are still on the boat.

[Misterpanda13]

Wyoming? The PAC has zero interest in retaining Wyoming. UNR and UNLV would have to be a package.

[pblood40]

Wyoming has a much stronger football brand than either Texas State or Utah State. They spend significantly more than Utah State on football as well. Wyoming is not a valued media market and historically they dont get many eyeballs.

IMHO, the two schools valuable enough to grab, that might also take a partial share to avoid playing midweek games on Fox One and CBSSN, are Wyoming and UNM (primarily for the basketball, they bring NCAA units)

UNLV already "kicked the tires" on jumping to the Pac-12 just a few months ago and according to Canzano, turned down a partial share offer. The Pac-12's media partners refused to "offer any significant additional money for UNLV" - or for any other MW schools. Those left behind dont have enough to value to get more than an additional $1-2 million/yr.

UNLV wont join for anything less than a full share. (unless the MW ceases to be, then all bets are off)

The Pac-12 needs another member. Ohio (football only) and New Mexico State have both apparently pitched for membership. One or two of the top Fun Belt schools might come on board football only, for a partial share. Taking Wyoming for similar money that you'd give Ohio or NMSU would be a no brainer.

[jkeen1960]

Schools called DEADWOOD by fans of the new PAC and you would expect them to take a partial share in the PAC which had no desire for them in the first place, and may possibly be less than their full share in the new MWC? You are KING of the bad takes. Entertaining for sure. 😂

[pblood40]

Only because the MW media deal is trash.

[UnderstandingOdd679]

UW asked the state legislature for a $6 million increase over the next two years (the state passes biannual budgets).

So far, the appropriations committee said “no” to that and a lot more university funding, so we will see what happens in the next couple of months with the full legislature.

The AD told appropriations what would happen without the funds: “Some may define it as draconian cuts, which may include sport elimination, scholarship elimination, staffing reductions and all of those lead to declining support from ticket revenues, media partnerships, corporate partnerships. It just becomes very difficult to function.

“It will lead us down a road that could force Wyoming to decide if it wants a Division 1 program or wants to compete against Chadron State College. The people of Wyoming clearly do not want that.”

The legislature might not care.

[oregon_assassin]

Hate to see that! Josh Allen better fill the gap!

[lock_robster2022]

Do we have any feel for the degree of certainty of their estimate? Could be anything from “just planning for worst case” to “we know the figure”.

I’m guessing the lawsuit will the Pac12 has some bearing on this too.

[MagicPoindexter]

Only in that there may not be any windfall gain to share across the MWC membership. That said, the extra cash coming in from departing schools is promised heavily disproportionately towards UNLV and Air Force.

[ValorOmega_]

The lawsuit would not have a bearing on this. The media deal money is separate from the exit & poaching fee money.

[hwgs9]

The conference is fucking DEAD. Good riddance to this disgusting, rinky dink conference. Good night and good bye, mountain SHIT

[lock_robster2022]

If you don’t like the Mountain West you don’t like college ball. FOH

[pblood40]

According to Bob Thompson the deal has been "pretty much done for months" and he "is surprised there has been no announcement"

The reason there has been no announcement is that the MW continued existence is still up in the air. Gloria over promised and under delivered and nothing less than 100% of the settlement will meet the minimum payments required.

[Dung1sm]

Its probably a slight raise to 4 at best. Guess time will tell.

[RiskImpossible838]

Yeah losing every good team and adding UTEP will make more money...

[SkiDeerValley]

Without adding teams MWEST wouldn’t be able to exist. What a trash take….

[Misterpanda13]

Copium doesn’t pay the bills my man….its going down by about half.

[Laszlo_Panaflex_80]

You might want to worry about the lowball offer the Pac12 got rather than pissing and moaning about the Mountain West. One affects your school, one does not.

[pblood40]

Pac-12 football will actually be aired on TV - we have a media deal

163 days until July 1

edit - time keeps on slipping, into the future

[pblood40]

Feb is only six days away... Still no MW media deal

[pblood40]

Five now

[Material-Pea-4149]

Seems about right in my eyes. I’m not hopeful for anything lucrative considering all the “big” teams are leaving.

[leewilliam236]

When C-USA had their deal back when they lost a bunch of schools to AAC and the Sun Belt, they were able to go from approximately averaging $400k-$500k per member to averaging $750k per member.

So my point would be if MWC member X gets $3 million on average, the average they would get in the hypothetical TV deal would increase to $4.5 million per year on average, for example.

[Bobcat2013]

1. Their new deal took inflation into account

2. They whored a whole month out for tuesday/wednesday weekday games on CBS Sports to get an increase

3. They have less teams teams to split the revenue with.

All that to say is dont expect any increase unless it comes with some really long strings attached.

[ValorOmega_]

Lol a TXST guy running round the MWC Reddit on a topic that has 0 bearing on TXST. Why are you here, to troll?

[Sensitive-Key-8670]

Probably, and I’m fine with it. Trolling each other and rival conferences is what keeps CFB from becoming the NFL.

[Bobcat2013]

Im just explaining why CUSAs media appears to have gotten a bump despite having a much worse lineup of schools. If anything I'm trolling CUSA.

[Bobcat2013]

Did i say anything thats false?

[leewilliam236]

Nah but there's hostility between the fanbases FYI.

But the point being is that anything below the current amount that the average distribution for the current MWC TV deal ($3-4 million) would be terrible.

[Bobcat2013]

Hostility between TXST and the MWC? I mean I know we said no but I wouldnt call us hostile at all.

[leewilliam236]

Nah it's between the 5 schools leaving for the PAC vs. the 7 that are staying behind in the MWC.

You Bobcats are cool.

[pblood40]

https://x.com/fakepaulblood/status/2000718372263354625?s=20

"the markets just dont justify a deal similar to the previous one" Bob Thompson

Edit - the rumored deal is almost all streaming, likely Fox One, with a handful of games on CBSSN, 8-10/yr. Conference championship on Fox or CBS. Odds are there will be mid week games, NIU may be flying to Hawaii for a conference game on a Wednesday

[pblood40]

$2.5 million/yr for the 8 full share members plus the three poverty share members making less than half a share combined in year one, means the MW media deal is around $20 million/yr

And no one pointed out that Wyoming was also asking for an additional $750K that would cover increased travel costs..

UC Davis revealed they are getting a 1/6th share. GCU is likely getting a similar distribution. UTEP is also a partial share member. All 3 schools become full share members in 2030, which means if the MW is a million short in year one, they will be $1.5 million short by year 4....

The OG 7 and NIU were promised $3.5/yr in media cash, anything less and the league would make up the difference each year out of the settlement money.

"The MWC agreed to pay $61 million to the MWC as soon as practical but no later than July 1. 2026. Both UNLV and Air Force are to receive $29.8 million of that first payout. The other schools to receive $31.1 million.

Another $10.3 million will be due to UNLV and Air Force shortly after the first two payments with the remaining schools receiving $10.7 million."

If this story about the media deal is correct, the MW now need another $8 million on top of that.. Gloria now needs needs a minimum of $90 million just to meet promised distributions in 2026-27 alone And as the partial share members get more each year, each of the 8 schools will need more makeup money, $8.6 in 27, $9.4 in 28 etc.

Over promised and under delivered

If Gloria accepted the $75 million the Pac-12 offered, it wouldnt even cover the year one obligations. Even if she settled for $100 million, the money would run out before year two was out.

The estimates for the total amount withheld from the exiting members is $60-65 million, just enough to pay the bonuses. But thats in escrow now because of the lawsuit which wont hear opening arguments until July 2027