The Big Ten just got a 4th window to sell for a huge price. With 6 hosts out there, you can guarantee a network a weekly 10:30 ET/9:30 CT game. Really feels like the place for WarnerDiscovery or NBC Universal (USA Network) to step in and give the Big Ten another wheelbarrow full of cash.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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They also would be on the hook for what they are paid/valued in the new conference.
So if they go to the B1G, either the games would be on ACC media partners channels for no pay to FSU, or they pay the Media income from the B1G partners to the ACC.
Either way it is much more than the 17M per year the ACC pays. Without an agreement the ACC can hold them until the end or make them pay.
With all the FSU chatter, I feel it's a heads up to Clemson, UNC, Miami, etc. that they should be prepared to jump by Aug15- if they want to leave the ACC as well.
So I would put my under on FSU leaving by Aug 8.
Purdue and Indiana in a state that only has 6.8 million people but also has huge Notre Dame and Colts brands...they can't be worth anywhere near what they're getting.
You're talking about the at best 3rd and 4th most popular football teams in a state of only 6.8 million. For those keeping track ASU and Arizona would be the 2nd and 3rd biggest teams in a state of 7.3 million. It wouldn't shock me at all if the Chicago Bears or several other NFL/NCAA teams outside of Colts/Irish were more popular than Purdue and Indiana.
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Wondering if FOX is willing to go pro-rata for all the corners. There was talk by McMurphy that they only agreed to add 2...
so PAC 12 combines with Big 12 and Big 10
OU and TX go to SEC
ACC gets split up into SEC / Big 10
and then after all the cluster f ring-around-the-rosey is done we'll be like wait this makes no sense
let's re-do this by region
can we just skip all this bs and go straight to the 4 Region Power Conferences
i think there's 64 P5 teams currently
OU and TX go to SEC
ACC gets split up into SEC / Big 10
and then after all the cluster f ring-around-the-rosey is done we'll be like wait this makes no sense
let's re-do this by region
can we just skip all this bs and go straight to the 4 Region Power Conferences
i think there's 64 P5 teams currently
At best the only thing they can do is say we plan to leave at the end of the contract....in 11 years. Just like OuT did.
Then begin a legal process or negotiation to leave before the end of the contract.
That means they need a landing spot...and that landing spot has to be agreeable to them coming any time from 1-12 years from now. Then they need time to go through a lengthy legal battle or time to negotiate.
All which take years. With that I think everyone already knows those schools are out the door when the contract is up. So announcing it really just gets the process of fighting started. And then they have to have a landing spot that agrees with it.
It will still be years down the road.
This matches what I heard this morning.
ASU apparently changed course after the meeting Tuesday.
I have NOT heard that Utah did or didn't change course, the change is that AZ/ASU are cozying up to each other now rather than having friction between them. But at some point they surely would wise up and it's just the Big 12's choice to add them or go with the bigger all sports historical brand in UConn since they already have the broader fanbase of Utah wrapped up.
Add to that, the B12 and OUT came to an agreement after the B12 expanded and after they signed their new media deal. The B12 was on solid ground with it's future assured when it made the agreement.
Comparatively, the ACC agreeing to sell of rights would have the opposite effect on the conference. Besides, how would this win a majority of the ACC schools over? How many are the B10 and SEC going to take? Is it 8? No, probably fewer? It has zero chance of winning.
My guess is the networks are rolling the dice that streaming will be a large player in 2030. Not necessarily looking for Amazon or Apple to save the day. But by 2031: ESPN+, Peacock and Paramount+ will televise a large percent of the game inventory and it will be profitable.
I also think that the CFP will grow to 16 teams, so that counters any decline in the core media rights revenue. Also around 2030 the NCAA Tournament goes out to bid. CBS has owned that for about 40 years and some folks in college athletics feel it is HIGHLY undervalued.
We give Yormark a lot of credit for wanting to bid football & hoops separately. Who knows, maybe that is feedback he is getting from his media consultants by allowing contracts to be split by media partner to limit those media partners investment.
If the PAC brand goes totally away and osu/wazzup end up in the mwc, that might be the best outcome we've seen for a g5 conference in the history of realignment. They were looking at getting gutted to backfill and having to promote other schools, now they could end not only securing their biggest brands but also add two decent programs right basically in their footprint.
Also, if its like other conferences as soon as a team says they're leaving, they lose their vote. So the vote to break up is essentially rigged in favor of those not leaving.
I hope they go for Utah. Yeah, they sound like a bunch of asshats, but we need someone to hate.
69 exactly right now:
Big 12: 13
Pac: 9
Big Ten: 16
SEC: 16
ACC: 15 (w ND)
Almost 100% chance WSU/Ore St are not power conference soon: 67
Some chance that Stanford and/or Cal don't make it through this would be 66 or 65
SDSU and SMU aren't going to get that promotion because what's left of Pac, if anything, is just going to be viewed as MWC.
I can't see any other teams getting promoted especially with all this talk of FSU demanding to leave ACC as soon as possible.
I'm fine either way, but this whole thing has REALLY proven that Utah needs the Big 12 a billion times more than the Big 12 needs them.
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