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  1. Whatever else you say about DeLoss, he turned Texas athletics into a cash cow. He did a great job financially. Now I thought it was pretty tacky driving a BMW onto the field at halftime, but he did find ways to make money. Texas was not the financial juggernaut it is now when he arrived.
  2. Texas turned down the Pac 16 in June 2010. LHN deal was still expected to be Fox for about $3 million in October 2010. It was then that ESPN came up with their big LHN deal, thinking they could get Texas HS football. LHN was not a factor in the Pac 16 decision. Fox and ESPN promising to pay a lot more to the Big 12 in their next contract was.
  3. The whole, we'll figure it out as we go along in a year or two, is a real stir the pot. Its pretty destabilizing, much like their 2009-2010 open auditions that lead to Texas to come up with the Pac 16 idea.
  4. Kentucky draws about 15,000 more fans a game than Virginia. In fact they draw better than all but 5 ACC schools. And they would do a lot better W-L in the ACC. And UK has won less than 5 games only twice going back to 2005. UVA has done it 6 times since then. UK has a couple of 10 win seasons in that period, including last year. UVA has one 10 win season in their history, in 1989.
  5. Nah. There's at least 158. But Lincoln is not in the MTZ.
  6. Brett McMurphy is quoting Warren as saying they will be in 4 time zones in 2024. Colorado or the Arizona schools???
  7. The 100 billion dollars isn't significant. Its the plural on members. That means at least two partners other than the mouse joining with Fox.
  8. Interesting. The Pac 12 has been trying to reduce the number of games played in that time slot. I guess that was part of the USC/UCLA full share deal, to regularly play night games.
  9. Are there any "right" reasons other than making more money for existing members? "Right" time is when Fox/ESPN approve.
  10. Water polo? Swimming? Cal is 10th in all time NCAA championships.
  11. Seems to be a relatively new trend. I can only think of one Tech person I ever worked with in 30 years in Houston. Lots in DFW, but very few in Houston.
  12. I do remember that at my DFW HS in the 70s, more seniors went to Tech than any other 4 year school (Dallas County Community College-lovingly referred to as 13th grade-was first).
  13. As I pointed out, that list doesn't pass the smell test. They deleted too many games. For obvious reasons, they deleted the mirror games. But they also deleted games vs. Big 10, SEC and ND. That gives you less of an idea how they do in bigger games. You've got to be on drugs if you think Louisville is #3 or the North Carolina is ahead of only KU, UH and UCF.
  14. Posted before I realized more than just the top tweet was included. Was pointing out him suggesting ESPN would lowball and everyone was waiting on ND.
  15. Wilner seems to be echoing my thoughts and confirming Scheer's 24.5 million.
  16. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/tv-ratings-suggest-the-pac-12-has-an-advantage-over-the-big-12-but-will-the-conference-come-out-swinging-this-week/ar-AAZWNro Wilner's comments. He trumpets Mandel's numbers, but you wonder if he really believes it when he ends like this: "...Where do things stand? Our sense is that Pac-12 presidents and chancellors would like a compelling reason to stick together and are waiting (perhaps weeks, maybe months) to determine whether that reason exists. Based on media markets, football brands and TV ratings, it’s not obvious that the new Big 12 holds a significant enough strategic advantage over the new Pac-12 to spark a mass migration. USC and UCLA will double their revenue in the Big Ten. But would Oregon agree to send its teams to play UCF in Orlando for a few extra million dollars per year? Would Arizona trek to West Virginia for money that won’t transform its budget? More than three weeks into this storm, we don’t have enough clarity to draw conclusions. Perhaps the Pac-12 will provide some this week...."
  17. Thanks. I wondered where Navigate came from. Didn't know who they were.
  18. Well the Baylor and Okie St. fans do. Personally, the arrogance from the left coast is kind of tiresome. And I don't like garbage stats that fly in the face of everything else that came before.
  19. You are missing the point. The Pac's equivalent games are not in their numbers. So a better comparison would be to drop off the bottom couple of games for each Big 12 team. For example, the Pac may have five 1.0s. The Big 12 would have five 1.0s and 2 0.2s, so even though they were equal, the Big 12 average is lower.
  20. It isn't just TV market. Its whether people watch. The most valuable TV market for college football in the country might be Atlanta! In places like Columbus, OH, Atlanta and Austin, ratings are huge. In LA, they are pretty small. All of the west doesn't watch college football the way the southeast and parts of the midwest do.
  21. Yes. The 10:30 games are worth very little. Nobody in the eastern time zone watches them. For that matter, most people in the west are out doing something else. I bet the Big 10 doesn't do any 10;30 games. The Pac schools hate them and have been trying to do less of them.
  22. When Dennis Dodds, who hates the Big 12, talks about the Big 12 numbers being better, it has some credibility. When Wilner, a good Pac 12 source but also a homer, talks about schools perhaps leaving, it has some credibility. Mandel is a Pac 12 homer. He has some numbers that favor the Pac 12, but they seem to fly in the face of every other analysis I've ever seen.
  23. So that's 6.5/year from the R8 and 4.8/year from the Pac 12. So you do get more of the bottom rung games in the Big 12 average numbers.
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