On Wednesday, the Mountain West announced the national television slate for the upcoming football season. In past years, that meant figuring out the bonuses each school would be due, but change has come.
No longer will the conference give bonuses to schools for appearing on major channels like CBS, ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, but instead will move to a more equal distribution model.
“We have institutions that get $500,000 in television revenue and some that get $1.5 million, just by the luck of the draw,” commissioner Craig Thompson told the Reno Gazette-Journal in July.