I hope Yormark stipulated that espn has to have on-site announcers for FB and BB.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Scheer is the best. He seems to think Robbins (Arizona’s president) is setting the table for Arizona to leave if the numbers he’s looking for aren’t met.
I’m sure this has been linked before but this is the interview that Scheer is talking about.
www.cbssports.com
I’m sure this has been linked before but this is the interview that Scheer is talking about.
Arizona president talks keeping Pac-12 together, TV deal expectations, deadlines, Big 12 interest and more
In an extensive conversation, Robert Robbins explains the state of the Pac-12 may not be what it seems
www.cbssports.com
He's just peaking around the corner to make sure his mom doesn't come down and see what's on his computer screen.
ESPN knew all about it, because they helped broker the deal between the SEC and the TX and OU. That is what Bowlsby was referring to when he threated to sue ESPN if they did not back off.
What ESPN wanted was for their new TV contract announced with the SEC, then a year later, TX and OU announce they are leaving to join the SEC. The conference would quickly be offered bids in the AAC or the P12. aTm went public with the news, hoping to stop it from happening, instead it just slowed it down.
It's multiple things.
It's what you have mentioned as well as the prospects of ****** time slots and lacking the passionate fan bases that will watch/make numbers work. Probably of all the P5 conferences the Pac 12 lacks the passionate fan bases that other conferences do. Many people in the west are transplants and many move there because of activities, you know, the stuff that takes people off of their couches. From brands, to product, to time zone, to fan bases they just don't do enough to bring a big deal. That's only hurt by USC leaving the conference.
I understand why the PAC 10 schools don't want to leave and if I were them I wouldn't either. But if you can't get into the Big 10 or the SEC what are you going to do? Your remaining members aren't a strong enough brand and the Big 12 is the only viable conference with a deal. The only remaining option would be to try to work with the ACC on some cross continent deal but that also poses major issues.
The economics are ******** and it's made worse by the fact football gets a premium as it essentially operates outside of the NCAA framework. It's allowing the SEC to close the gap in basketball to where if it doesn't happen they won't be at the bottom of the food chain. Especially with their lack of ethics.
He's leaving out a huge part of that interview.
When can I become a member of the KnappShack empire? I can't wait to try some of that KnappShack Coffee either!
It sounded like he side stepped the question about 4 corners schools contact with B12, if I heard that correctly.
It would make sense that BY has given 4 corners his proposal and now they are just waiting to compare that to Kliavkoff’s deal and then make a decision.
He definitely sidestepped the question. Interesting he did that after his AD tweeted this a couple weeks ago:
Give me a break someone spilled the beans about our clandestine meetings with the Big 12
Full transcript, totally dodged the question.
Still think the Pac signs a deal. But what if Yormark spins it like we are having to join the Pac (some of them) and adopt their name (sort of) to entice the 4 corners, Washington, and Oregon.
Yormark: "How about a merger between the conferences where the Big 12 schools will join you 6? The Pacific American Conference (PAC) will be the result."
Yormark: "How about a merger between the conferences where the Big 12 schools will join you 6? The Pacific American Conference (PAC) will be the result."
Does that sound like Wilner setting up to blame George if it all goes down the drain? Like "ive been right all along about how awesome the P12 is, but GK **** the bed"?
Sure does.
“We weren’t wrong about PAC being stronger/better/etc, George just was incompetent”
They’ve already been trending that way when thinking a possible path is to just sign a bad deal to stick together for 3-5 years until they can get back in front of the Big 12 when negotiating with ESPN
It’s not the fact no one wants an apathetic and pathetic west coast based conference that doesn’t even have LA, that only has value as late night smut football, it’s just bad commissioners
