Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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There is a lot of good ideas here. On 365 sports, the former Fox CEO said right now the problem is matchups and college football need to take a cue from the NFL and try to get something started that would allow for a "Saturday Ticket", like the "Sunday Ticket."
But Maryland I don’t think had a GOR in their way. They just had a typical media deal with the conference that they were leaving and potential loss of conference revenue as a result.
I’d be fine with that. I’d drop YTTV and hopefully wouldn’t be too far in the hole with that transaction.
Times are a little different, also not sure if FSU has a safe landing place where they would get a full share. Rumors are that the big ten presidents are done with expansion until the PAC teams get settled. The SEC will have a couple schools fight to keep them out and ESPN might not agree to match the addition since they were already getting the product at a discount.
You can already watch all the games though, that’s the whole point of Sunday ticket is it gets you the out of area games.
What they need is something like redzone
I think the SEC takes FSU if only to keep the BiG out of their region.
I think part of the reason Red Zone works so well in the NFL is because all the fantasy football.
I think a CFB Redzone could work, but may not have as much draw as the NFL, at least currently, as there is not near the fantasy play in college.
I think with the ESPN+ and similar services we are already at a point where we are paying for a service similar to Redzone, just not all in one place, at this point.
Virginia Tech has been on the outside for most of their history. A Southern Independent at the lower end of the totem pole, then the Big East, and finally the ACC as their high water mark. When I was a kid in the 70s, Virginia Tech (V.P.I.) was one of Alabama's gimme games the Tide played. It was an embarrassing OOC game. All of the games but one (1969 @ Blacksburg) were played in Birmingham or Tuscaloosa.
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Right you can already watch all the games and most games with regular cable (or equivalent), that's why they
need the Saturday ticket. So they can monetize it even more. If it's not in your market, you have to pay for it, out the nose.
I heard the same interview with Bob Thompson who worked at Fox Sports. Another interesting thing he said was he believed that North Carolina and Virginia would be picked by the Big 10 before Florida State. The Baylor boys at 365 have been the best place to go for information on this.
Oh really?! so NFL fans can watch games out of their market?.. NO they can't, they have to have the Sunday ticket, and its not cheap. The idea is to do the same for college, if you want to make sure you can watch your favorite team, and they could be out of your market, you'd have to buy the Saturday ticket for the season. MORE $$$ What are you not getting?
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I think the point is that as these contracts expire you retain those TV rights rather than resign with the networks. You could then sell the pooled TV games as a streaming package rather than going through ESPN and the like. Maybe sell some games to primetime TV slots, but the key is to retain the main rights to sell directly to the consumer rather than to the networks.
I don’t know if that would bring more money, but I’m sure there are people in the industry that have looked at this and would know whether this makes financial sense or not.
ACC filed a suit in nc so it wont get hometowned, but that still will happen.
The Florida SCT gets the last word, not anyone else, on whether the length of the gor violates Florida public policy. I think it does imho.
you cant tie up a public university to a piss poor contract for that many years--its insane. 5 should be the max.
if the ACC wins in NC, and FSU wins in florida, good luck collecting that judgment from fsu. A judgment is a piece of paper, and i doubt the florida sct lets anyone seize FSU's bank accounts or property in excess of what it determines is within public policy of that state.
I dont believe the NC Sct could even pretend to trump the florida sct on a matter of florida law.
The Florida SCT gets the last word, not anyone else, on whether the length of the gor violates Florida public policy. I think it does imho.
you cant tie up a public university to a piss poor contract for that many years--its insane. 5 should be the max.
if the ACC wins in NC, and FSU wins in florida, good luck collecting that judgment from fsu. A judgment is a piece of paper, and i doubt the florida sct lets anyone seize FSU's bank accounts or property in excess of what it determines is within public policy of that state.
I dont believe the NC Sct could even pretend to trump the florida sct on a matter of florida law.
You have to walk away from the current model where you have 20 games on TV at a time. The NFL ST works because there’s only 6 games on per week with cable.
Sounds like what the PAC would have liked to do, but we saw how that went.
College's biggest benefit is that its on OTA\Main ESPN. If they tried to take it to some kind of "sunday ticket" type setup it'd probably crater viewership (the way we see most games crater in ratings once they're off ABC\CBS\Fox\ESPN)
Sigh, you’re not going to be able to take away the way it currently is now and lock it behind something like that. That’s why it’s different, Sunday ticket was created because you never had the ability to watch out of market games.