If you can get past the ridiculous framing of the Big East as a mid-major, this piece from Ross Dellinger on Yahoo has some delicious on-the-record quotes. The generally accepted math according to his sources: most every school with a power conference football program will devote 70-80% of the $20.5m cap on football ($15-16m), 10% on men's hoops ($2-3m), and 10% split among everything else. Creighton's expected NIL budget is $5-6m according to his sources, more than double what most if not all big football schools can spend.
https://sports.yahoo.com/college-basket ... 05097.html“In the Big East,” says Duke athletic director Nina King, “their basketball revenue-share portion will be a lot more than what those of us can do who have Division I power football programs.”
“People have raised the issue with me and they are raising it more frequently right now,” Greg Sankey said last week. “It’s something we are having conversations about at every meeting. I’m confident in our schools’ ability to compete, but it does raise a set of questions.”
“Big East schools next year can pay $6 million or more to their basketball team,” said Houston athletic director Eddie Nunez, “and that’s a game-changer.”
“At a place where football matters, we can’t justify $7-9 million to be shared with basketball,” KU athletic director Travis Goff said, “but we do think we have some innate advantages at Kansas. Coaching, culture, institutional brand, fan base, facilities, they will all move the needle.”
Ackerman, too, has heard about the “nervousness” within power leagues.
Her response? “We are flattered by the respect they seem to hold for the Big East and we will live up to that,” she deadpanned. “We have the ingredients to keep this going. We don’t have their revenue base. Football money goes a long way with other sports. But basketball is less expensive. We are going to have what we need to stay in the top tier of college basketball.”
