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Currently each conference school is receiving around 30 million per year from their tier one TV deal. We know that each year a contract comes open for renewal, that number goes up. The question that no one seems to know is "what is the value of the Big 12 without OU and UT?". Some say that is a .50% loss in value, others would say it will be less.
After the showing and ratings of ISU, OSU, Baylor and Cincinnati over the past couple of days, I would bet the numbers of the new TV deal will be closer to 30 million than the 10 to 15 that some people were predicting when all this came out. Live sports are the money maker of programing currently, that is not going to be changing in the near future. The Big 12 needs to schedule like the SEC, play the bare minimum of 8 conference games, get 3 or 4 cupcakes for non-conference and build up the resumes of the conference schools. It"s worked for IEU and the SEC for years, the Big 12 needs to do the exact same thing.
Expand the playoffs and making sure that each current P5 school gets a bid and the Big 12 will be fine.
But Chad is following orders from the Grand Wizard himself, so he won't ask the tough questions. He needs to keep his press credentials.
Agree. Also hoping for another year of Pac12 ratings disaster, which 0-5 can’t help. Their TV deal is up in 2024 and with another year of decline in ratings, they will struggle to do better than the new Big 12.
And the ACC isn’t too far off. Their conference title game was lower than the American of Cincy-Houston.
As long as the Big 12 is even in revenue with those two, and better on the field, we’re in a good enough spot. So no need to stack the schedule with sure conference losses
I would take that in a heartbeat. Each team is getting what, something in the neighborhood of $35mil per year? A .50% hit would be a reduction of 175k.
Doubt if we take a huge hit revenue wise. However, without OU and UT, playing all cupcakes for non-conference isn't going to work, like it does for SEC. I would like us to think about getting a home and away with say, Ole Miss or Mississippi State.
Sec doesn't play home and aways especially up north you'll probably have to settle for week 1 In Atlanta or Orlando
How would you know? You don’t leave Iowa until October every year.
I saw somewhere that the B12 was hoping for a 50 percent tv rights increase before OUT left. Odds are that we end up some somewhere is the ballpark of what we have currently. Which will be way behind the SEC and B10, on par with ACC. I’m assuming the PAC will be the same as well but their deal will be really interesting to watch.
You got me there. I think if we still played 4 ooc games we'd be braver than most the SEC
He needs to be left alone. He is what he is. This comes from the top though. When Kirk makes statements about joking about a backup, he basically condones and starts it himself.
Use the extra scheduling freedom to preserve/restore regional rivalries:
Backyard Brawl
Holy War
Missouri Border War
Keg of Nails
Bedlam
Telephone Trophy
Black Diamond Trophy
That’s one way to drive ratings. We should also generate a few trophy games for our conference matchups:
Cincy vs. WVU “Daniel Boone’s Musket”
Farmageddon “Golden Plow”
Baylor vs. TCU “Gideons Bible”
Houston vs. UCF “Gulf Coast Cup”
Maybe start a rivalry with BYU (Mormons) and Waco (branch Dravidian’s). Have a new blow up doll and winner gets a new “wife” for each win.
I really only like the idea of farmageddon here as it has formed naturally between the schools (that or the riot bowl for us and WVU lol). Making a rivalry trophy game just because it's the same conference is so big 10.
It would be interesting if the new Big12 could find interest in a football conference rivalry series. We already have one with SEC in hoops, maybe that would help in setting something up for football. If no interest by SEC, then I would approach Pac12 to do football & hoops. Then drop SEC Hoops Challenge. They need the Big12/SEC hoops Challenge to improve that conferences hoops credibility
The other thing new Big12 should consider is 10 conference games. At minimum, Big12 should push for 10 games against P5 opponents for team to be eligible for playoff
Every good adventure movie has a “MacGuffin.”
Riot Bowl trophy needs to be a burning couch inside of a dumpster. Someone get on it!