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  1. 8 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Just to be clear, that production company has made $0 in profits since he started it, with the $40M is a low end estimate to how bad he is losing money there and that only considers the past two years when the company was founded in 2020.

    It's not just James' money in the company. James is a giant shareholder in the company, but they've raised over $140 million dollars from other investors, with a valuation at some point of over $750 million. I assume that LeBron has not personally lost a penny in this deal. And while the company has never turned a profit, it's had several hundred million in revenue.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Rivals released their final top 250 for the 2025 class

    No.11 Justus Terry
    No.16 Jonah Williams
    No.19 Kaliq Lockett
    No.29 Lance Jackson
    No.45 KJ Lacey
    No.48 Jamie Ffrench
    No.71 Kade Phillips
    No.94 Daylan McCutcheon
    No.106 Michael Terry
    No.110 James Simon
    No.127 Graceson Littleton
    No.151 Josiah Sharma
    No.167 Bo Barnes
    No.192 Nick Townsend
    No.194 Myron Charles
    No.196 Nicolai Brooks
    No.241 Smith Orogbo

    Rivals sucks. There's no way in the world that there are 166 better prospects than Bo Barnes.

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  3. 11 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:

    I want to represent the NCAA. Just make dumb ass arguments with no chance of success while pounding the fucking file. Oh no we lost who saw that coming, that will be 11 million dollars thank you. 

    You'll have to get in line behind @blacklab's lawyer

  4. 2 hours ago, po elvis said:

    yup i have been watching the streams all year on youtube, but they have been cracking down on the playoffs. i got a free trial for youtube tv for the ASU game. i will get another from somebody else for this game. i am on my 3rd email in getting free trials from the various services.

    username checks out

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  5. 46 minutes ago, Superhero said:

    What's the best way to watch the game if I don't have ESPN?

    Is @immamac gonna have a stream?

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6041999/2025/01/06/how-the-new-deal-between-disney-and-fubo-will-impact-how-fans-consume-sports-tv/

    Also, there was a good article in the Athletic yesterday about what the Hulu+LiveTV/Fubo merger is all about, and ESPN's plans to be able to offer just an ESPN subscription (but I have to assume that if you don't have ESPN then you don't have access to the NYTimes/Athletic so here it is spoilered below).

    Spoiler

    How the new deal between Disney and Fubo will impact how fans consume sports TV
     

    The corporate maneuvering  over your sports viewing dollars may offer more drama than some of the games that you pay to watch.

    The streaming wars that have been bubbling under the surface of the TV business are now fully upon us. The emerging digital powers, Amazon Prime Video, Google YouTubeTV and recently Netflix have announced their arrival with NFL, NBA, WWE and, perhaps soon enough, UFC deals.

    The old guard — ESPN, Fox, NBC, CBS and TNT Sports — have seen them on the horizon, but their streams are now in full view. To fight back the digital behemoths, the traditional players are forming new alliances.

    That is why Disney’s latest salvo to maintain ESPN as the eternal sports empire has it combining its Hulu + Live TV business with Fubo, a direct result of the emerging threat.

    ESPN is trying to live up to its credo: “To Serve Sports Fans. Anytime. Anywhere.”

    It is a nicer, corporate way of saying: We would like everyone to pay us.

    ESPN’s chairman Jimmy Pitaro and his right-hand executive, Burke Magnus, first created a sports-rights moat by outlying nearly $80 billion over the past seven years for the NFL, NBA, college football and MLB, among other properties. Now, it wants to conquer distribution, which ESPN once dominated but now is being overrun by the Netflix, Amazon, Google and the like.

    ESPN once had 100 million cable and satellite subscribers and now has 65.3 million, according to Nielsen’s latest tally.

    The combined Fubo and Hulu + Live TV has 6.2 million subscribers and represents a legit competitor to YouTube TV’s platform that approaches 10 million subscribers. (The Athletic has a commercial partnership with Fubo.)

    ESPN is available on YouTube TV, as well, but Disney has no ownership stake in the Google platform.

    Further, the agreement between Disney and Fubo effectively settles the Fubo-led litigation from earlier this year that has prevented Venu Sports – the joint venture to present ESPN, Fox Sports and TNT Sports in what the cool media kids like to call a “skinny bundle” — from launching.

    Venu does not have the full green light, but March Madness feels like a potential starting point. The idea of ESPN, Fox and TNT Sports combining would have been blasphemy a decade ago, but these entities are trying to survive and thrive in a Netflix world.

    For consumers, it all still remains way too messy to try to figure out where, how and for how much to watch all these games. ESPN’s goal is to meet you, wherever you are.

    In the late summer, likely August, ESPN will offer its “flagship” direct-to-consumer product, which The Athletic has previously reported is right now aiming at the $25-30 per month range. ESPN flagship will give consumers access to all of the network’s programming without any other subscriptions.

    Venu Sports, the ESPN/Fox/TNT confab, announced its initial offering would be $42.99 per month, though that is likely to quickly jump to $45-50 per month. Like YouTube TV, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV will be in the $70-80 range with more channels besides sports. Each customer pays about $10 for ESPN’s channels in these bundles.

    Do you see ESPN’s plan? ESPN wants to be available to entice consumers at different price points. You will be able to access it in the $10 range as part of the $70-80ish YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV or Fubo universe, or at $25-30 per month as an ESPN standalone, or potentially with Venu at $45-50 per month.

    ESPN already enters the battle with maybe the greatest set of rights in sports TV history as it includes Super Bowls, NBA Finals, college football championships, Stanley Cups and more. There is not much to bid on in the near-term, except for UFC.

    Amazon Prime Video already added the NBA to its NFL offerings. NBC/Peacock swiped the NBA from TNT Sports.

    And, now, here comes Netflix.

    It is lurking, playing at a global scale. With its Christmas NFL games, it has a relationship with the most powerful professional sports league in the world. It recently inked the Women’s World Cup for the next two tournaments.

    Netflix is just beginning a decade-long agreement with WWE, with its first live telecast airing Monday Jan. 6. Like WWE, TKO owns UFC. UFC is currently a part of ESPN, but Netflix is considered a strong contender for the next deal.

    And this is how we got to Monday’s Disney-Fubo announcement. ESPN wanted to maintain its Fubo subscribers, keep Venu alive and create a YouTube TV competitor. It can’t afford to lose anymore with Netflix and Amazon having unlimited resources.

    It’s the corporate game inside the game for how you watch your games.

     

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  6. 23 hours ago, texifornia said:

    Kade Phillips, Phillips measured exceptionally well Monday: just shy of 6-foot-1, 184 pounds with 10+ hand, 34+ arm, and a 6-foot-8 1/2 wingspan.

     

    Kaliq Lockett
    Kaliq Lockett out of the DFW Metroplex showed up with offensive line-like length numbers, including a 33+ arm and a wingspan pushing 6-foot-7. Almost 6-foot-2 and 175 pounds, Lockett boasts enormous hands (10 1/2), which certainly aid his pass-catching abilities.

     

    15 hours ago, futureman said:

    that’s impressive. 

    How much do we expect their wingspans to shrink, once they start adding on weight in a college s&c program? Isn't it something like 3 inches of wingspan per every 20 pounds?

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  7. 13 hours ago, chad.ihrig said:

    I mean, he played a34c2777013eb28dca7398b7b7bade09.jpg

     

    13 hours ago, chad.ihrig said:

    Odd that he played in 5 games - which means he lost his red shirt. I suppose he thinks he will be out in 3, but that seems like yet another poor choice.

    He played those five games in Sept and early Oct. He probably assumed that he was going to be playing 10 games or more.

  8. 41 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Don't you find it odd that to look for "comparisons" you have to select two NFL coaches, and not college coaches? Why can't you find us a real apples to apples comparison for the achievements of Dillingham. Oh wait...

    Urban Meyer would have been a good comparison too, but that's mostly my point. Young guys that look promising early on at non-traditional powerhouse schools need to either move on and up to Blue Bloods or the NFL, or they can stick at their current school and have occasional good seasons but fairly quickly lose their luster. 

  9. 9 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

     

    How many major conference championships have either one of those guys won? How many CFP visits? 

    Countering your other dum dum positions on this, what's invalidating about being another Matt Campbell? I don't like the guy, at all, and I think he's a choker. That said, he's winning at a place that has been borderline impossible to win at, and he's had his teams borderline elite at times, including 2020 and 2024. Pointing to Campbell as some notion of failure for a young coach is fucking dumb. 

    Also, "the odds are more likely" is a specious bulletin board argument that carries zero weight in a discussion like this. You have no fucking way to calculate odds against infinite variables with any credibility. Work harder at taking your position than trying to build off of that kind of garbage.

    Finally, Dillingham has done things sooner and at a higher level, at a program with higher fan affinity, fan affluence, and fan size. What an interested and talented coach can accomplish at Arizona State dwarfs what can be accomplished at ISU or Minnesota (this isn't 1960 in the Twin Cities). 

    The "major conference championship" begat the "CFP visit", which is stil an accomplishment greater than either Fleck or Campbell. 

    I'm not saying Campbell or Fleck are failures, but I find them very similar to what Dillingham will probably end up looking like if he decides to stick around Az State. 

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