In all Larrondo sees the potential for an “increased revenue impact resulting from a move to the AAC” of $10.5 million. Larrondo also projects an increase of $2.75 million in ticket revenue for football and men’s basketball games. He projects an increase of $4 million in additional revenue from television and media rights deals, College Football Playoff and Bowl Game Distribution and NCAA Tournament basketball payouts from a move to the American. In an attached document titled, “Notes relating to all sports move to the American Athletic Conference”, Larrondo estimated an increase of $1 million in travel expenses for the department, including an increase of $300,000 each for the men’s and women’s basketball teams to charter to every conference road game. “Don’t get me wrong, there is still travel and men’s bball, women’s bball and volleyball probably get the brunt of that.” “I was actually surprised when I did some breakdown of the conference schedules and so forth how realistically the travel is not probably as much as we had assumed,” Larrondo wrote. He analyzed the impacts for both expense and revenue if all of the school’s sports moved to the AAC. 28 email to Apsey, Larrondo broke down how moving to the conference might work. “I am 1000% convinced we need to make this move for football and if that means other sports too in the long run it will be what’s best for this University,” Harsin wrote. 11, saying he felt the school needed to make some type of conference change. “Evaluate best conference placement for football program under current FBS football model with a move to the American Athletic Conference being the top priority,” Larrondo’s memo noted.Īs BoiseDev and the Idaho Press previously reported, Harsin weighed in with Apsey and school president Dr. 28 Larrondo emailed Apsey a document titled “Athletics 2020 and Beyond.” The four page memo outlined what was working for the department, goals, challenges and obstacles, and “where should we focus our efforts to advance the programs.”Īt the top of the list? Leaving the Mountain West. And the planning appears to have evolved during the late summer and early fall. Two weeks later, we now know it’s the American Athletic Conference. Sign up today.Įyeing the AAC Courtesy The American Athletic ConferenceĪt the time it was unclear where Boise State was looking to move its football program to. You can help support our journalism and get our scoops before anyone else, too. A spokesperson provided the same statement from university president Tromp from when the initial story broke earlier this month.īoiseDev members got this story in their inboxes first. We asked Boise State specific questions Monday in response to the new information about the AAC. Emails showed Boise State reached out to both the West Coast Conference and the Big West about moving its non-football sports there, which would open the door for the Broncos to go elsewhere in football. The new information comes after BoiseDev and the Idaho Press first reported earlier this month that coach Bryan Harsin was urging Boise State leadership to leave the conference. (Marlene) Tromp they are only interested in footballī obtained a new batch of emails and documents from Boise State under Idaho’s public records act and shared them with the Idaho Press for this story. Still talking to the president, the AAC and the Big West. I would think that mindset would change if there were other schools in the West up for consideration which I think will eventually happen. (Marlene) Tromp they are only interested in football. Apsey responded the next afternoon, writing to Larrondo, “Brad, at this point the AAC has told Dr.
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