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  1. If you lose all the auxiliary channels and carrier fees that seems like a huge danger to the Big 10 with them have half of the conference filled with dead weight, then can't you run into the issue of you having too much inventory? OSU vs UM or USC vs PSU is going to be worth it's weight in gold, but what the hell do you with UCLA vs Purdue or Rutgers vs Illinois? Stick them on a subscription BTN streaming app? They are going to get a fraction of a fraction of people to sign up in comparison to being able to force it on everyone in LA, NY, NOVA.
  2. That doesn't really address my question, a huge amount of the value of these media deals is specifically because they can charge people who aren't actually watching. The BTN gets to charge 1 dollar to 20 million households for Rutgers vs Maryland even if only 300k actually ever tune in. So my question is if that model dies and is then purely then streaming advertising value of your product. What then?
  3. In the big picture, what happens if the carriers start hacking away at networks? If in 10 years Comcast, Spectrum, Directv etc, say 70 percent of our subscribers only watch Fox News, sitcom reruns on TBS and murder mysteries on oxygen so we are going to start dropping expensive sports packages like BTN, ACCN, SECN, or even bigger they drop things like FS1, CBSSN, ESPN 3/U and still charge $75/month? With the mentality of "Whatever small amount of subscribers we lose will be made up with the increase in margin." This seems like it would be a major blow to these media deals, and would be a massive shotgun blast in the stomach to the Big 10.
  4. This is one of the stupidest fucking comments I have ever read. While the Big 10 leverages media deals larger than the SEC the SEC still beats the Big 10 in actual athletic department so funding a roster would still favor the SEC. A Highschool draft is literally the fucking stupidest thing I have ever heard not only would absolutely nobody ever agree to it, even if they did agree to it, it would be outright illegal as it’s an antitrust violation.
  5. No don’t post irl photos of surly’s denizens. I already have a mental image of what most of the regular here look and sound like and I don’t want that ruined by reality.
  6. At a point spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get an extra year or two in the SEC doesn’t make economic sense.
  7. Yes, long established legal precedent of leadership being able to void legal contracts, how have we not taken this course of action.
  8. Y’all really seem to missing the point with the future Big 12, they can not compete with the SEC or Big 10, nobody can. But the Big 12 will have interesting and fun football, they will never be able to compete with things like Texas vs Bama or USC vs OSU, but 5-0 UCF vs 4-0 OKstate is going to be a lot more interesting than 2-3 Mizzou vs 3-1 Scar or 0-4 Illinois vs 2-3 Maryland. They aren’t competing with that top end of the Big 2 they are competing with the 3rd and 4th rate programs.
  9. This is missing the point completely, the Big 12 isn’t competing with the SEC, Texas plays at 7pm and A&M plays at 3:30. But I would absolutely tune into watch a 10-2 UH play 10-2 OSU at 11 am while I do chores around the house.
  10. This is rapidly starting to feel like the Creation of the Big 12 2.0 but with the B1G and Pac instead of SWC and Big 8 and it will suffer the same fate.
  11. Fat chicks bragging about having big tits , energy there bud.
  12. I hear it’s because he refers to the white linemen as his “Honky’s” and he is obsessive with the word to the point that he has a bootleg rap trac called Honky’s in Paris.
  13. His resources and influence are limited, Oregon has been his pet project but Nike is absolutely not going to let’s its swoosh cash cows in the SEC or B1G be challenged. If you want to talk about his fortune that he leaves when he kicks the bucket, we’ll he isn’t special in that case.
  14. The lower conferences don’t matter anymore they’ll agree to what the SEC and Big 10 want or they can rot.
  15. 2024 at the earliest as ESPN takes over the SEC from CBS but at that point why pay a hefty exit penalty instead of just letting the GOR expire.
  16. Fox and the Big 10 might have grossly overplayed their hand here. ESPN already has the ACC and SEC, if ESPN can help cause the remaining Pac to collapse and jump ship to the Big 12 and ESPN is able to swoop in for the Big 12 media rights ESPN would have completely flipped the Alliance on the Big 10 and Fox. The ACC needs to keep ND in their current semi joined state, the SEC wants to keep ND out of the Big 10, the Big 12 wants to keep ND independent so the Big 10 hold fast at 16 teams and the Big 12 can grab a homeless Oregon and Washington. At that point the Big 10 and fox are completely boxed in, the SEC throws some bones to the ACC and Big 12 with auto bids for the conference champs and use the deeper SEC to squash the Big 10 with unfavorable match ups. Have the ACC, Big 12 and ND eating up playoff spots the SEC can then get 4 teams like Bama, Georgia, OU, or LSU/UT/UF/AU and stack that up against OSU, UM, PSU, USC, but then there is the big drop off to Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska which just can’t match the SEC in fire power.
  17. The Alliance got played in brutal fashion by the Big 10, the Pac tried to protect the Rose Bowl only to have the Big just out right take it. Sankey and the SEC worked to make sure that ND had a path to the playoff with the purposed 6 conference champs +6 at large. The ACC stupidly thought it had the genuine support of the Big 10 so they shot down the 12 team playoff in an attempt to force ND to join the ACC as a full member, however with both the Pac and Big 12 mortality wounded the SEC and Big 10 now control the playoffs future and thus if ND joins a conference its gonna be the Big 10.
  18. Which doesn’t actually mean much, NBC while a subsidiary of Comcast still operates as it’s own company and the limitations as purely broadcast company same with ESPN and Disney.
  19. Because they don’t have the pull to get either of those two.
  20. It’s one of the worst heat waves on record and Jimbo is still wearing a goddamn 1/4 zip pullover as a shirt. The man has 100 million dollars and not enough sense or taste to put together a semi decent outfit or at least pay someone todo it for him.
  21. Yep, everyone but the Big 10 and Fox benefits from ND staying independent. The SEC, ACC and ESPN are going to fight to keep ND from ending up in the B1G and any path for an independent ND opens up a path for the Big 12 and Pac as well.
  22. The Big 10 is signing their own death warrant if they take even more garbage programs like GT, BC, Cal, and ASU or they take wild cultural outliers like Duke and Miami all in the pursuit cable boxes. It’s not 2010 cord cutting is eating into that pie and cable adoption is basically zero and reaching the point when the average cable subscriber is 60 and the only ad revenue is from Medicaid supplement insurance companies. At that point the networks will derive most their value from the ad space they can sell in big match ups, OSU vs USC or UM vs ND is something that the networks will be willing to payout the ass for. But what happens when 50% of the inventory the Big 10 is trying to sell the networks is worthless garbage like Rutgers vs GT or Boston College vs Cal? Now these teams do nothing but eat into the pie that OSU, PSU, UM, ND, USC generate as they bring nothing to the table as programs themselves.
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