That's the whole point for broadening the footprint to the Midlands. Spread the fixed costs. You think people wouldn't watch UCLA in Hilton or K-State in the Colesium?
P12/B12 alliance?
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Yeah I am not into taking on the fixed costs for a failing network because the "man who hired Bill Snyder" says its a great idea.
Games like OU/USC Texas/Oregon etc aren't going to be on Pac 12 network. I don't see distributors rushing to get the Pac 12 network to their subscribers for 3 weeks of games involving ISU/Oregon State/Colorado/Kansas State/Kansas and Cal.
First, we need to worry about football, because that's what drives conference survival. Would people watch K State or ISU at UCLA? Yes - they're called ISU and K State fans, so pretty much the same people that would watch ISU or K State play Toledo or Akron. You're not going to get many new eyeballs there. Top it off with a nice 10:30 eastern kickoff and you really have a loser.
Good luck convincing the $EC to do that. The NCAA cant even convince them to face their own conference 9 times like every other conference.
It is a starting point. Have you ever in your life been in negotiations, ever, even with your sweetheart did you start at the finish line? My God, people!
All businesses need to look at where to find efficiencies, alliances, better product etc. so kicking this around is healthy. Airlines form alliances with competitors in their loyalty programs and travel companies share platforms for booking systems. So there are plenty of parallels in the non-P5 world.
I thought a few things were strange though (besides the fact that Morgantown is most decidedly not in the Plains):
* The only talk was of football and you KNOW that many schools won't want to lock in 3 P5 games only. It's good that they talk of a scheduling arrangement of just 1 game per year, which would be cool.
* Why was no mention made of basketball? I would trade 3 Pac 12 teams on ISU's schedule anytime for Southern, Texas Southern, Mississippi Valley State, Eastern Illinois etc. in a hearbeat. Basketball is where you have some schedule flexibility.
* Maybe they could discuss picking up some games on their network. Where I live, MSG, FSNY etc. pick up Big 12 games.
There's talk of the Pac 12 dying. I don't see that; they still are 100% of the big boys in the Pacific time zone so they'll have some sort of league, I'm sure.
I hope that B12 leaders will take some time to study how Germany hitching their wagons to Austria-Hungary and Turkey in WW1 worked out.
https://newsok.com/article/5624121/ex-kansas-state-president-suggests-big-12pac-12-alliance
The San Jose Mercury News reported Wefald’s proposal, which came at the bequest of current West Virginia president Gordon Gee. You can read the Mercury News story here.
Wefald’s proposal has scant chance of being adopted, for a variety of reasons, but shows that some kind of Big 12/Pac-12 schedule alliance could be beneficial. Such a plan has been discussed for years.
The San Jose Mercury News reported Wefald’s proposal, which came at the bequest of current West Virginia president Gordon Gee. You can read the Mercury News story here.
Wefald’s proposal has scant chance of being adopted, for a variety of reasons, but shows that some kind of Big 12/Pac-12 schedule alliance could be beneficial. Such a plan has been discussed for years.
So you make up about 100% of their average viewership there.
I'm not sure if there is an award for Most Graphic Analogy on CF, but you've got my vote.
