skinnydeac
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tiered payouts based on success in football and to a lesser extent basketball?
Not necessarily. It's just a numbers game. If you want Clemson and FSU in the SEC, but it is going to cost you 500 million a piece due to contract issues with the ACC, you try to take enough schools to dissolve the conference. If Wake and NC State each averaged 526k and 525k viewers per game last year, but they were in a conference that caused that number to double on average per game, solely based on the "it just means more" eyeballs across the southeast, then they wouldn't be hurting the revenue sharing as much. Also, you have two schools that have proven recently that they would take that increased revenue and invest it back into the program in an attempt to improve the product.
Then you have Duke... they averaged 64k viewers per game last year. That might be below sunbelt level.