This is how much value USC brought to the Pac-12--Oregon brought little to nothing except its flash-in-pan, Johnny-come-lately, or Eddie chromed out his 2005 Honda Accord its-so cool, style and class: per Jon Wilner of the Wilner Hotline and his media industry inside sources:
Let’s start with the assumption that the conference, if whole, would have generated $500 million annually in the next contract cycle from three revenue streams: broadcast rights to football and men’s basketball games, plus revenue from the four-team College Football Playoff and the NCAA Tournament. Without USC and UCLA, that figure drops substantially. A second Hotline source, one familiar with Pac-12 finances, estimated that USC alone was worth 30 percent of the conference’s value. Because UCLA occupies the same media market, the impact of its departure is somewhat limited. Let’s set the total reduction at 40 percent. That would leave the 10-team conference with approximately $300 million in average annual value, or $30 million per continuing member.
Those numbers in the third year of expansion are nuts. Yup…it’s desperation time for UO/UW.
These numbers are insane. Pac 10 getting lapped. Check out the spreadsheets. “Oregon and Washington are desperate and begging to be let in”. we can all see why.
I personally find it fascinating that for a team with so much perceived value, you Trojans certainly have been loafing it the past 3+ seasons. No one's been watching your games.
Or to match your analogy (nice job on the Honda reference as I am a car guy!), you Trojans are a 1984 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with a 15.0 quarter mile time living in a world where the slowest Tesla (another "flash in the pan" like Oregon) clocks in at 13.8. 😉
Also from Wilner....
ucly was worth nothing. Big 10 knew it
If Oregon has no value. I’d have to think OSU and WSU have no value either. Without UCLA I don’t see a value of 300 million now. Is Cal and Stanford worth that much?