How TF Creighton afford Dix and Owen??

[Mountain Man Hawk]

My understanding is the B1G came up with its own level of revenue sharing. There is nothing constraining Big10 to only do only $3.2 million to MBB other than that is the number the Big10 athletic Directors decided they needed to be competitive and still fund other sports. That number seems likely to grow given what Big East is intending to spend

The B1G is the king of Sports media TV rights revenue. The link I see says the BIG10 Media rights for MBB are worth about $10.8 million/yr and the SEC and Big East are in 2nd and 3rd place at $7.8 million and $7,2 million. The big difference is the Big East plans to fund NIL at a level that is much higher percentage of their TV money and B1G is funding NIL at roughly 1/3 of MBB TV revenue money.

Per AI:
The Big East is expected to lead all conferences in revenue-sharing money for men's basketball, allocating $5.7 million per school, followed by the ACC ($4.4M), Big 12 ($4.3M), Big Ten ($3.2M), and SEC ($3.1M).

How does the the Big East TV contract compare to other power conferences?

Where does the conference’s newest deal with FOX, NBC, and TNT put it relative to its peers in high major basketball?

painttouches.com

Of course that’s true, but nobody can afford to fall behind in football and if the total revenue-sharing amount is capped at $20m and if roughly $14m goes to football, there just isn’t that much left to work with for the rest of the sports.

From what I’ve read, it’s sort of a struggle for Iowa just to get to that $3.2m level for MBB because we want to generously fund WBB and other things. There was an article about it by Leistikow recently.

 

[Mountain Man Hawk]

Creighton is not paying Dix and Freeman over three million dollars combined. Maybe they are both upper six figures. I doubt very much either received a million or more. The numbers reported for all teams are inflated by “insiders” who do not know what they are talking about.

I think you were probably right for last year but I’m not so sure about this year and going forward.

For instance, Iowa has publicly announced we will spend $20m on athletes this year. Obviously most will go to football but we are going to spend probably at least $5m on MBB (including NIL plus rev-share).

So simple math says that Iowa is going to have at least some basketball players making over a million a year.

Do you disagree?

Or do you just think we are going to find better players than Freeman and Dix that are more deserving of a million dollars?

 

[iowaathletes]

Creighton - last July:

OMAHA, Neb. – Thanks to the support and generosity of a record 6,218 donors across the country, Creighton Athletics announced today it recorded its second-best fundraising year while bringing in over $13.6 million dollars during the recently-completed 2024 fiscal year.

 

[iowaathletes]

Creighton is not paying Dix and Freeman over three million dollars combined. Maybe they are both upper six figures. I doubt very much either received a million or more. The numbers reported for all teams are inflated by “insiders” who do not know what they are talking ab

Dix alone was 2-2.5Million, Freeman I have no idea. Both Josh and Pryce left for the money.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Creighton is not paying Dix and Freeman over three million dollars combined. Maybe they are both upper six figures. I doubt very much either received a million or more. The numbers reported for all teams are inflated by “insiders” who do not know what they are talking about.

And you do because........you're an "insider"?

😉

 

[blubberhawk]

Ever been to there Arena. Sold out games and lots of $ I would love it if IOWA had a arena like that. Nebraska and Creighton arenas are very nice. They call the Creighton fans Jayskers, Nebraska football fans and Creighton basketball .

There is only one football team in Nebraska. There is only one BB team in Nebraska. There is No competition for support. Iowa is a low population state splitting support between 2 1/2 schools. (sorry UNI)

 

[blubberhawk]

This makes no damn sense.

ah yes, teams spending millions to chase the old, sweet 16. Don't make it this year? Gonna have to spend more next year and then the next. Where does it end? It's an all- out spending war now. Sense? Nothing makes sense in professional sports nowadays. NONE of these players care about the school they are playing for anymore. It's going to get very hard for fans to care if there are not some sort of rules governing this crap going forward. No recruiting necessary anymore, only buying.

 

[AmericaNeedsMe]

ah yes, teams spending millions to chase the old, sweet 16. Don't make it this year? Gonna have to spend more next year and then the next. Where does it end? It's an all- out spending war now. Sense? Nothing makes sense in professional sports nowadays. NONE of these players care about the school they are playing for anymore. It's going to get very hard for fans to care if there are not some sort of rules governing this crap going forward. No recruiting necessary anymore, only buying.

This idea of fan shaming for not donating to pay players and their agents is going to be as popular as new coke.

Any middle class father who donates money to an NIL group so kids can drive around campus in luxury cars is a goddamn idiot.

 

[ANYCHawk]

Good Lord! Can you be serious?! Really? I'm astonished that anyone could actually believe that Creighton is the wealthiest fan base in the country. How f*cking provincial do you have to be to believe something like that? What do you people do for a living? Who pays you? To do what? My God.

I'll bet UNI and Loras are top 5.

lmao

Maybe Creighton is #21:

The 20 colleges and universities with the most ultra-wealthy alumni

There is no other institution in the United States like Harvard when it comes to having the most well-off graduates.

universitybusiness.com

Or maybe #29:

The 28 Schools That Mint The Most Billionaire Alumni

These schools excel at a unique task: placing alumni on The Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans.

www.forbes.com

lmfao. I would honestly be surprised if they make a top 100 list.

Um wrong. Creighton has a few alumni who went to be doctors. Clearly no other fanbase has that

 

[hawkirugged17]

Um wrong. Creighton has a few alumni who went to be doctors. Clearly no other fanbase has that

 

[DewHawk]

Freeman has some competition next year, too bad.

Serbian 7-Footer Aleksa Dimitrijević Has Committed to Creighton​

 

[onlyTheObvious]

This idea of fan shaming for not donating to pay players and their agents is going to be as popular as new coke.

Any middle class father who donates money to an NIL group so kids can drive around campus in luxury cars is a goddamn idiot.

Qualifications to donate to NIL
1. A business using it as an advertising mechanism to grow revenue, brand recognition.
2. Rich people that have generation wealth.
3. Idiots.

 

[Arbor1]

ah yes, teams spending millions to chase the old, sweet 16. Don't make it this year? Gonna have to spend more next year and then the next. Where does it end? It's an all- out spending war now. Sense? Nothing makes sense in professional sports nowadays. NONE of these players care about the school they are playing for anymore. It's going to get very hard for fans to care if there are not some sort of rules governing this crap going forward. No recruiting necessary anymore, only buying.

Dead on. Somebody asked me today about the ncaa bb championship - I didnt know it was being played and no idea who was playing. Havent watched for several years now and dont miss it a bit. I am an iowa fan first regardless of sport with zero interest watching nil privileged 20 year olds playing for their second, third or fourth payday team.

 

[warriors dad]

There is only one football team in Nebraska. There is only one BB team in Nebraska. There is No competition for support. Iowa is a low population state splitting support between 2 1/2 schools. (sorry UNI)

Creighton is from Omaha. That city is in Nebraska. Nebraska is from Lincoln. That city is in Nebraska! That is 2. And Omaha is in the summit league which made the NCAA tournament this year and is also in Nebraska. That is3!

 

[Hawkaholic18]

They may have been being facetious/joking when saying Nebraska has only one basketball team, meaning Creighton.