When I look at it all, I take internet, phones, and any streaming platforms we have and throw them together for cost, because at one time it was all bundled together and now we are basically cell phones, internet, and streaming.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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FSU has zero leverage. The ACC has them for the next decade. What motivation would the ACC have to appease FSU by adjusting to unequal revenue sharing?
Yeah, FSU is going to bolt for the SEC as soon as they can regardless if they get more in the ACC than everyone else. What motivation does Wake Forest or Boston College have for letting them earn more now?
Huh.
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ESPN wants to be the hub of all live sports streaming — even if it helps its competition
The idea aims to make ESPN the TV guide of live sports. The network has held talks with major leagues and media companies, sources said.
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You gotta think that the Big ten has to be eyeing the south. Even if they would get NC, they are leaving huge and growing states like Florida, Texas, Georgia, out of their conference. I wonder if they would go hard after FSU or Miami just to try to hook something down there.
Yeah, that's like your girlfriend saying she is just going on this double date with this other guy because her friend really likes his friend. There is nothing there for you.Huh.
ESPN wants to be the hub of all live sports streaming — even if it helps its competition
The idea aims to make ESPN the TV guide of live sports. The network has held talks with major leagues and media companies, sources said.
If it's WAOR, then everyone else, I think the corner schools are more likely to jump. If there are a couple tiers, what's everyone's bottom dollar? How low would OR St and WA St go to keep the 10 intact?
WA and OR would try to take as much as possible while still keeping everyone in. Let's say their floor is $30m, though. The corner schools could make more in the B12, but it's not worth moving for less than $5m a year, so AZ, ASU and Utah will stay for $27m. The B12 isn't going to take just CO on their own, so they'll take a full regular share of $25m along with Cal and Stanford. That leaves $15m each for WA St and OR St. They don't have much of a choice, but are they really going to be okay with their take being half of their in-state schools? More importantly, would their BOR be okay with that arrangement?
If the Big 10 values academics like they claim, then I'd bet Miami and Georgia Tech are more likely than Florida State.
This. Like what is the pecking order there? I’ve got Clemson getting 80%, FSU getting 5%, Miami getting 5% then the rest split the remaining 10% lol.
I'd think the B10 would go hard after landing a Florida school for a variety of reasons (population, recruiting, planting a flag in SEC country). Either Miami or FSU would academically fit. Miami would only be the second private school in the conference (Northwestern is the other).
Georgia Tech makes a ton of sense if their B10 Network model is still functioning when the time comes and they have room.
Huh.
ESPN wants to be the hub of all live sports streaming — even if it helps its competition
The idea aims to make ESPN the TV guide of live sports. The network has held talks with major leagues and media companies, sources said.
It’s actually kinda smart. People often complain about it being difficult to “flip” through streaming services and games being hard to find. This could be a step towards fixing that. And if I’m ESPN, there’s value in becoming the first “go to” place when people want to stream sports. Even if I’m directing viewers to a competitor’s service, I can still extract value out of that first click and then gain valuable data into what games customers wish to view when.
I doubt the competitior’s agree to this though as they wouldn’t want to cede control of the marketplace to ESPN. In theory, these other streamers could then expose themselves to ESPN hiding their games and all sorts of other potential shenanigans.
Georgia Tech makes sense all they way around. Be in the GA market and taking a football team that is past their glory days. They seem to like has beens. Or even never beens with Rutgers and Maryland.
The Big Ten has done a nice job of keeping their “tiers” in tact to keep OSU and Michigan strong. GT would slide in nicely in that Minnesota/Maryland/Nebraska/Indiana/Illinois tier that is right above Rutgers/NW and right below the Iowa/Michigan St tier.
That butter soft middle of “they get hype but they are easy to beat” tier needs to be the biggest tier.
Miami and FSU are essentially ranked the same academically. GT always gets talked about but I think that was more for TV market days. GT is sort of like Cal where they have just abandoned athletics.
And the Big 12 members know that appeasement will work until it doesn't.
Roll out the red carpet for FSU and see them still take the exit door when the GOR expires
The only way most of the schools would even consider unequal revenue would be if FSU would commit to the ACC for some absurd length of time. There is absolutely no reason to give FSU more when they're probably leaving in 2036 no matter how much the other schools appease them now.
This is 100% spot on. I've caught their show from time to time and thought they were somewhat informed but lately they've become unbearable so I just stopped listening to them. They do very little research and yet try to come off being knowledgable, more so than others. they're not.