The combined conference would get money. This is a pretty decent lineup at the top.
Oregon
Washington
FSU
UNC
Duke
Virginia
Clemson
Arizona
Pitt
Miami
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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The combined conference would get money. This is a pretty decent lineup at the top.
Oregon
Washington
FSU
UNC
Duke
Virginia
Clemson
Arizona
Pitt
Miami
I feel like this and letting AZ do what it wants to do may be best for everybody. AZ is basically a hostage. I think WA and Ore may be in the process of getting the “no” news, question is if it’s a hard no or a “later”.
What if, say, Clemson and Florida State don't want to merge? If a merge happens, I'm guessing they can say the conference broke contract.
According to McMurphy. Seems like this meeting was a Hail Mary and a lot of leaks by P12 to try and push through using momentum.
League may be saved, but AZ has got to go at this point I’d think
For about 6-7 years, then they lose 6-8 of those brands and are saddled with some programs that don’t have college sports fans.
Yeah, and thats mostly ACC teams. Why would ESPN open up the grant of rights and have to pay everybody that much more money when they've got the majority of those teams locked down at a discounted rate?
KidSilverhair
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The question is how do they get more money together than they’ve been offered separately already? How are ESPN/FOX/whoever going to magically increase their payouts for teams they already hold the rights to on the cheap?
Big 10 call has been scheduled to discuss Oregon and Washington today.
The biggest lesson from this is that the networks aren't the bottomless pits of money a lot of us, myself included, thought they were.
Yeah, I don't see how a merger happens. You have TV networks already not wanting to pay for the PAC, but hey, let's merge them all into the ACC and pay them more than we'd have to now?
You would have to open up the contract and the GOR to get something like that done. As soon as there is a window in the GOR, FSU is gone, plus a couple others.
Wouldn't that require ESPN to pay for all these Pac schools, which they clearly don't want to do?
maybe klaivakof was hoping the presidents would trip, fall and accidentally sign the GOR instead of the attendance sheet or something
There are definitely times when a couple of hours away from this thread provides more than enough bathroom reading material, which is fitting.