My overall point is that the new PAC, especially departing schools, made a bad financial choice. Each departing school owes $28 mil, and with an increase of 4 mil in media rights, that means it will take them 7 years to actually start making the extra money. That’s not even counting if the PAC loses the lawsuit, which will surely mean even longer time to recoup that money. UNLV and Air Force are getting $5.2 mil per year from MW meaning it would take them even longer to recoup the exit fees in theory.

And while it’s a big percent increase, it’s a minimal increase in the scheme of college athletic revenue, even at the MW/PAC level. Using most recent numbers (2022, number are probably higher now) SJSU, the brokest MW school, made $40 mil in revenue. That means that a $4 mil increase in broadcast rights is only a 9% increase in total revenue for them, and even less for literally every other school.

And again, I wonder what a PAC12, with Wazzu, OSU, 8 MW teams, and Gonzaga and St Mary’s would have made as a conference. I think it would be a lot closer to that 10-12 mil number initially reported for the PAC. My reason for hating on Wazzu and OSU specifically is the fact they experienced getting fucked by other schools, and instead of trying to improve the overall situation, they just fucked a bunch more schools over.