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Evaluating and projecting Big East TV deal

The Big East is nowhere near a new televsion deal with the one in place running through the 2012-13 basketball season and the 2013 football season.

It’s still topical, though. The ACC (almost stunningly) more than doubled its annual television income with its new deal. The reconfigured Pac-10 expects to go from about $5 million per school per year to $14 million. The SEC needn’t worry about TV revenue, but has about $18.6 million per school per year and the Big Tewhatever has about $1 million more than that to disperse.

The Big East? Well, it’s behind. The numbers have been bandied about, but there have been some inaccuracies reported, mostly because of the way the football/basketball and the basketball only schools split the money. For the record …

Here’s the Big East TV picture right now:

The conference has a six-year, $80 million football deal with ESPN ($13.33 million per year, divided by eight football members – and a deal that was done in August 2006, as the conference was still trying to find its legs after losing Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College).

The Big East has a six-year, $138 million hoops deal with ESPN and a six-season, $54 million deal with CBS (those are divided by 16 schools). Each Big East football school gets, on average, $3.67 million a year. The other eight (hoops) schools receive $2 million apiece.

So, the Big East is only getting about $45.3 million annually in TV revenue now – or about $1 million more than the current Pac-10, deal, which is about to soar.

If the recent conference agreements can be used as a guide, there’s no reason the Big East shouldn’t get into the $95 million-$100 million range annually in 2014 and beyond.