[Husker] Texas got it's payday

[David Strong]

Tru dat.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:

> Well, that’s at least slightly noble of them.  Either way, the amount of
> money that Texas will get from TV will tower over anyone else in the Big
> XII.
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> *From:* David Strong [mailto:gobigredlist at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:18 PM
> *To:* Skylar Dodds
> *Cc:* Huskerz
> *Subject:* Re: [Husker] Texas got it's payday
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> It's not all money to the Athletic Dept.  From the article:
>
> "Powers said half, or about $5 million a year, of the first five years’
> guaranteed income from the new deal is earmarked for academic initiatives.
> The other half will go to athletics.
>
> After five years, academics could receive a larger or smaller share,
> depending on the revenues, the economic climate and the judgments of the
> university leaders in place at that time, he said."
>
> Dave
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> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:
>
> 20 year, $300M from ESPN for their own network.  Basically it's just to
> broadcast everything that's not already on TV, like a basketball game or
> two, some baseball, some women's volleyball, etc. etc. They said they'll
> also put on some school sponsored stuff like music productions and plays.
>
>
> http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/highereducati
> on/entries/2011/01/19/ut_espn_reach_20year_300_milli.html<http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/highereducati%0Aon/entries/2011/01/19/ut_espn_reach_20year_300_milli.html>
>
> or
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> http://tinyurl.com/6yr52h6
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> Since Texas isn't going to share a SINGLE DIME of this money, the disparity
> in the future "Texas and the 9 wives" conference is going to be ridiculous
> bordering on laughable.  Some reports say that the "new Big XII deal" that
> isn't created yet will provide somewhere around $20-22M for the big names
> (UT, OU, aTm) and all the way down to $10M or so for the little guys (KU,
> MU, KSU).  Add in the extra $15M a year that UT is now going to get and
> that
> will give them 3-4 times the amount of money the little guys get.
>
> Good to be getting out, IMO.
>
> --
> Skylar
>
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