The article basically confirms the PAC expansion strategy is to invite teams, give them a small share of revenue,
And pretend by taking the rest of those team’s share that the current members were valued higher and ultimately get more money. That’s funny.
Which brings us back to expansion. Adding schools like San Diego State and SMU would not add significant value in a traditional TV deal, but a streaming service like Amazon or ESPN+ could be interested in volume. Inviting two more schools would add an extra 15 or so football games a year, which would raise the overall dollar amount (say, from $270 million a year to $300 million a year). Two sources believe the new schools would initially receive less than a full share — not unusual in these situations — which would up the existing schools’ slice of the pie.