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Report: Pac-12 Network payouts to schools are comically low compared to SEC
By Adam Spencer
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The Pac-12 is struggling, and not just in football. This year, if Washington wins the conference title in men’s basketball, the Pac-12 may only get one team in the NCAA Tournament.
That would be a failure of epic proportions for a Power 5 conference, but that’s where the Pac-12 is these days. The Pac-12 Network isn’t helping matters, either.
The network has been around since 2013, but the yearly payouts to each school are still embarrassingly low. Per a report from the San Jose Mercury News, each school only received $2,666,667 from the network in 2018.
Compare that to the SEC Network, which distributed around $40 million to each of the SEC’s 14 schools in 2017, per USA TODAY.
Meanwhile, commissioner Larry Scott (who also serves as the head of the network) makes an annual salary of $4.8 million — the highest of any Power 5 commissioner.
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 14 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
