The conference will go belly-up soon enough and if anyone deserves not to pay one damn penny, it would be USM. I have zero faith that Flamingo Boy would agree, I'm sure he would pledge extra money we don't have because he doesn't have a GD clue amount shit!
I thought charter members would not have to pay. That would be USM and UAB.
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Go back as far as ul and cinci. No one paid.
I believe this to be true. The policy was probably something like "teams leaving CUSA only have to pay exit fees to the extent that conference media revenue goes down within N years as a result of their exit," with "N" equal to a number that's less than the duration of the CUSA media contract.
That's a policy that amounts to a "$0 exit fee" policy.
What can we say about a conference with no exit fee? Well, it's not a legitimate league in the sense that the SEC, ACC, etc. are legitimate leagues. It's a marriage of convenience at best.
Hanging up banners or otherwise building an identity around a marriage of convenience is stupid. I didn't analyze the CUSA contract terms in depth in 1995, but my gut told me this.
At its core, CUSA has always been fundamentally phony.
It seems like the current iteration of CUSA does (?) have a real exit fee. That would tend to imply that the teams currently in CUSA are our actual peers.
They are not worthy of us, and offer nothing to our fans, and that's why USM should never join a conference.
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Rice is appealing to the MWC and is probably talking to them on a regular basis
Yeah, I can see Rice and maybe even UTEP going to the MWC.
Must be nice having a light at the end of the tunnel.
]]>That includes $20.5 million in revenue-sharing from C-USA, including NCAA basketball tournament revenue. Then, there's $16.1 million from the College Football Playoff; $14,257,000 in bowl and college football playoff revenue; and $2.9 million from C-USA to help member schools fund the full cost-of-attendance stipends.
Based on 14 schools, that calculates to $3,838,785 revenue per school.
But as C-USA officials pointed out that includes about $1 million in revenue per school distributed by the NCAA. The schools still would get that regardless, since the NCAA merely passes the $1 million per school through the conferences for distribution.
So, let's deduct the $1 million for a revenue figure of $2,838,785.
Now, double that amount and it comes to $5,677,570.
Don’t know what happened to the cash from the first wave of exit fees but this is where we stand today if anyone bolts.
]]>1. Paid as expected and spent by the remaining schools?
2. Put into a trust for the future good of the conference?
3. Declined by the schools owed them?
4. Not an issue, because the CUSA media contract didn't drop in value during the relevant timeframe?
5. Something else?
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