SEC Revenue Disbursement: Status Quo or a Texas-Sized Hold-Up?
Those in the SEC are in the football beniss, and cousin, beniss is booming! With the recently concluded SEC spring meetings, it looks like the total take of the conference in revenue was $209 million last year and pay czar Mike Slive got to dole out $17.42M per school. As you may know, the SEC distributes it’s revenue equally per school, which has served it well over the years. The status quo is good, but the recent shakeup in the Big 12 may have repercussions even in stable conferences like the SEC. In FBS, where the move is to close the gap between the haves (BCS teams) and the have nots (mid-majors), a new brand of social injustice for CFB has apparently reared it’s head across the land–in the concept of the heavy-hitters of a conference now taking more of the lion’s share of the TV money. Oh, if we only had some form of ACORN for college football to right these wrongs.
