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PatrickMcHorn

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  1. IIRC, super cell's parent company is Chinese. 

     

    Edit:  supercell is Finnish; parent company tencent games is a holding company headquartered in China. 

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  2. 17 minutes ago, Hurtlocker said:

    That's basically it.   The Pac does want to drop to 8 games, but they can't and keep their contract intact.  If they had 4 games to give, you could give two of them to the B1G/ACC, that gives them more games in the east coast.  Granted that only gets you back to even, but you're back to even with more eyeballs.   I think you also set up made for TV ones in the beginning of the year and fill in those bullshit filler games everyone has with just normal cross overs.  Washington State v Syracuse isn't going to be a 4m game, but, to your point, its going to be worth a fuck ton more than Syracuse v Western Carolina or the Citadel, or the nameless rabble of bought games. 

    While this helps the Pac/ACC, all I think it gives the B1G is puppet states, which may be what it wants most.

    If the PAC drops to eight,  I'd think it's because they're intending to pick up games, not just replace what they have with home and homes via the alliance. 

    They already do a lot of bigger home and home games.   They'll replace these with alliance games over time,  and also add SDSUs of the world for the extra game to sell. 

  3. 17 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    It's not about their university disappearing. It's about the fact that UT actually cares about the State of Texas and tries to do things to help it. Things like a medical branch in Houston.

    Meanwhile small thinking dipshits like A&M and UH block us and everyone else at every turn because they only care about their piddly institutions. Which is exactly why they're piddly institutions.

    Texas Tech needs visibility. The unfortunate reality is that the #3 public university in Texas is out in Lubbock.

    I appreciate your point of view,  and agree with a lot of it.   I just don't see UT making the effort to bolster Tech via athletics.  It may hinge on an 8 or 9 game schedule.   8, and maybe we could commit to a home and home with Tech.  9, with needing 2/3 to be home games, definitely not.  Otherwise,  there's not enough money, exposure,  or recruiting impact in Lubbock to make it worth while,  right or wrong. 

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  4. 4 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    This puts a 9 maybe even 10 game conference schedule in play, which schools like Aggy have resisted.

    Everyone would resist a 10 game conference schedule.   TV is great,  but pales in comparison to the revenue of half a home game per year.

  5. 3 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

    I was actually lumping Looch, the administration, and the athletic department all together when I said "they". Functionally there is very little separation between TexAgs and the institution. 

    Gotcha,  yep agreed. 

  6. 15 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

    Once you saw the shift in real-time where the Looch and the others started posting positively about the move and how it was actually a good thing this was clear. They got their marching orders and were told to shut the fuck up about it.

    I think it was the opposite.   Aggy got a talking to Friday night/ Saturday morning, and looch got his marching orders to support it. . 

  7. 11 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Craziest value in that chart is 2.36M for TCU/KSU at 4:00pm ET on Fox. Totally doesn't match the rest of TCU's numbers. They're basically a ratings killer for every game except that one. Did they have a huge game before them and after them that day or something?

    This is 2020, right?  I would guess those numbers are fucked up for that game.  Texas/OU was that day and went into quadruple overtime on FOX.  I don't remember, but I'm guessing we bled into their timeslot, and whatever data is being used on the chart isn't sophisticated enough to know their game wasn't the one being shown when data was being collected.

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  8. 4 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    And on top of the above, based on viewers numbers that were posted everywhere yesterday, Texas and OU were basically half the TV eyeballs of the whole conference. If the remaining 8 add two more schools who are roughly equal to their average TV value (easily possible) to keep the inventory the same in terms of number of games then they could try to negotiate only a 37.5% loss in TV contract value. 

    That's not good but would only be a $7.5M per year loss. And TV contacts aren't the entire AD budget. That might mean only a 10% total revenue loss. Not fun but not a program and conference killer.

    They can wait it out or at least negotiate as if they're willing to wait it out. On the other hand that would require strong conference leadership so good luck to them. 

    I'd imagine too that they could throw their 3rd tier rights in (I think they're all currently individually sold out to either fox or ESPN).  Theoretically it's a zero sum game, but that might help the perception of the casual observer.  

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