SicEm365 Blows Up The Athletic TV Ratings Article on Big 12 vs Pac 12
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Summary: B12's new schools are far above any the Pac12 can add at this point. Also, if the B12 succeeds in getting late night slots, the P12's only advantages start to take a sizable hit. And, finally, and most important is the media dictates much of the viewership.
This part bothers me, since it seems like a large chunk of "the media" enjoys shitting all over the Big 12 while fawning over other conferences.
Only idiots sign huge contracts based on opinions. The math is clearly in the Big 12's favor, and execs spending the money know it.
Oh I don't think it impacts contracts or anything like that, I just get tired of the Big 12 getting dumped on.
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And this is over 8 years. Do the last 5 where ISU hasn't had a Kansas+ football program and TCU wasn't in the MWC and I bet the Big 12 performs even better.
It’s a shame Mandel types will never figure out that it’s not PAC vs Big 12, it’s PAC vs Big 16 or Big 18.
The top PAC schools are just worth more as a block in a conference that isn’t the west coast, now without LA. The best bump to their valuations would be in the BIG, but the Big 12 also allows them better time slots, more markets, while still allowing for late games (better than BIG in that regard).
Whatever number the Pac10 can get, it will be more if top schools go east.
The same bump doesn’t occur with the apathetic west adding Big 12 schools.
And between Big 12 exit fees, uncertainty on which PAC schools will be there, and the long term need to form a 3rd super conference, the Big 12 has the leverage to dictate the direction is west to east
I believe they got rid of 2020, any special week such as Labor Day and Thanksgiving as well as conference championship games
TCU was out of the MWC since 2012.
ISU obviously would go up since 2017.
KSU would obviously improve if 2012 was included.
Stanford would fall if it was since 2017.
For that chart I think it was just no title games and no non-conference to keep it even.
This isn’t hard - the heartland roots for college football and hoops more than the west coast. The west coast is pro dominated.