![]() The deal put about $100 million in cash or receivables on the Big Ten’s books, and the conference said about $3.5 million of that went to each of the 14 member schools in fiscal 2021. The documents and comments from Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 officials provided insight into moves those conferences made to limit their revenue losses and/or preserve payouts to schools, even though there may be future impacts.įor example, the Big Ten exercised a pre-existing option to sell 20% of its interest in the Big Ten Network to Fox, the company with which it has roughly shared ownership of the network since it was formed in 2006. The conference also was helped by continued growth of the ACC Network. Notre Dame played the 2020 football season as an ACC school rather than an independent, and it received a full revenue share rather the smaller amount it normally receives for participating in ACC sports other than football. On the revenue side, the ACC improved by nearly $82 million to a little more than $578 million, as its teams were set up to play 11 regular season games – 10 in conference play. The NCAA and the Power Five conferences combined to rack up more than $75 million in outside legal costs in fiscal 2021. The documents also showed that the conferences’ overall spending on lobbying nearly doubled to $2 million and spending on outside legal services more than doubled to nearly $23 million amid the Alston antitrust case and contentiousness surrounding athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness. Jim Delany, who retired from the Big Ten in the middle of 2020, was credited with a net total of $4.7 million, including nearly $3 million that represented the third year’s worth of money from the more than $20 million in future bonuses for which he became eligible in July 2015 and the conference said he will be receiving over a 10-year span. MORE: SEC increased its revenue by $105 million in 2021, reaching a total of $833 millionĬASHING IN: What pandemic? These college coaches cashed in big. ![]() Its member schools received an average of $54.6 million in fiscal 2021, plus a $23.3 million advance on future conference distributions.Ĭollectively, the conferences’ documents showed that three commissioners who served for the entire 2020 calendar year took significant total-pay reductions – the Pac-12’s Larry Scott, the Big 12’s Bob Bowlsby and the ACC’s John Swofford. The SEC made its return public in February, and it showed total revenue of just over $833 million – a $105 million increase over what it reported for fiscal 2020. The conferences other than the SEC provided their new returns this week in response to requests from USA TODAY Sports, which also obtained additional comments from those four conferences. This helped result in per-school payouts dropping to $19.8 million in 2021, from $33.6 million in 2020. The Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 were more conservative and, in some cases, unlucky in their efforts to stage football games - and they ended up with respective revenue downturns of $53 million, $89 million and $190 million.īecause of the pandemic, the Pac-12 said, only one of 35 football games scheduled for the conference-owned Pac-12 Networks was played, and the networks ended up with a $14 million operating deficit after showing a $36 million surplus in fiscal 2020. The ACC also ended up joining the SEC as the only Power Five conferences to show revenue increases for the corresponding 2021 fiscal year, new federal tax records show. ![]() In the summer and fall of 2020, the Atlantic Coast Conference joined the Southeastern Conference in having college sports’ most aggressive approach to playing football games amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() Watch Video: The Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher NIL beef explained
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