misleading. How much of the discrepancy in revenues is actually due to our current situation (Indy + WCC) versus the MWC? BYU has increased their revenue in many ways that have nothing to do with conference affiliation. Most of the revenue increases have been the result of (A) aggressive pricing schemes on football and basketball tickets and (B) lucrative one-and-done and neutral site football games. Both of those are independent of conference affiliation.

The bottom line is that there are only three major financial differences between BYU's current situation and BYU being in the MWC:

- TV Revenue: BSU gets $2.9M under their current deal. BYU currently makes $4-$8M for football and reportedly an additional $500k for WCC basketball. The football TV revenue has reportedly been closer to the $4M minimum for the past two or three years. If BYU were allowed to broker their own deal in the MWC, would they get something like the BSU deal or something more like what we have now? Regardless, I don't think it's that big of a difference... somewhere between $1.5 M and $3.5M annually.

- Bowl Revenue: BYU currently gets a full share of their bowl earnings vs. sharing it in the MWC. Most years, the difference is about $350k, although last year, when we didn't go to a bowl, we got a big fat ZERO and we would have been better off in the MWC.

- NCAA tournament basketball units: IIRC, in 2018 the WCC has 18 units and the MWC has 9 units. Up until last week, that meant that the WCC was $225k (annually) more lucrative than the MWC. But under the new agreement, Gonzaga keeps 50% of their unit-money. That means the difference between BYU in the WCC and BYU in the MWC is about $50k.

So all-for-all, the financial difference between BYU's current situation and BYU being the MWC is between $1.9M and $3.9M. When sitting close to $68M in revenue, I don't think we should be making all decisions regarding our future based on a 3-6% piece of our revenue pie.