Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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You can only really go back maybe 10 years as people have fickle memories outside of the top teams.
So ESPN is considering a a deal after Fox kicked it's A$$ last week with USC and UCLA.
Either that or George Kliavkoff is throwing mud at the wall and hoping it sticks.. Either way this seems like putting a dead person on life support
Either that or George Kliavkoff is throwing mud at the wall and hoping it sticks.. Either way this seems like putting a dead person on life support
I doubt that is how they would execute it, but yes, there has not been a "loose" alliance that has done ****, for anyone.
Mu opinion is the main value in this for the ACC the continued messaging that ESPN needs to do something. All this talk about schools looking to leave, BIG interest etc. They need/want ESPN to at least have some level of doubt that ESPN is in complete control of those schools.
And let's for a minute assume ND stays, they have to fly across the country and play the pac 10 champion...idiotic
Assuming the Big 12 is out on ESPN for the OU and UT debacle. Does ESPN have inventory west of Norman on Saturdays?
They may need to make a run at keeping the PAC 12/10 alive. Until Fox kills the conference that is and takes Oregon
They may need to make a run at keeping the PAC 12/10 alive. Until Fox kills the conference that is and takes Oregon
It’s pretty awful. They tried to make the entire event family friendly and gutted the experience. Tailgating was dramatically changed and the stadium is in the middle of campus so it’s about a 15-20min walk from where most people park and traffic is horrific. Add in that you can’t drink unless you are in a box and it’s a really rough go. I’ve been a few times if there is a box available but otherwise I’ll watch at home on the big screen.
OUT should not mean we're out on ESPN, it should be we have reason to work together. OUT for free in exchange for no Pac12 and ACC has always been my asking price
They don’t matter directly. But in a future where you may need people to actively subscribe to get content rather than just throw on ABC all day, it can give an idea of that team’s value. It’s really difficult to predict that value. Attendance is a reasonably useful factor in trying to predict it.
Attendance again means nothing. All sports attendance is going down due to cost and the fact that the in home experience is incredible now. Ratings are all that matter you can’t extrapolate anything from attendance but with ratings you can.
They are trying to work together to weaken the Big 12 to 5th Power 5. They already started this too with "The Alliance". This partnership is likely driven by ESPN. All of them, with the SEC, maybe is trying to push the Big 12 out of the CFP Power conference payouts. But if the Big 12 adds some Pac 12 teams, that kills their plan.
His takes are largely garbage.
It certainly doesn’t help that for some reason 95% of the national media hates the Big 12. What a joke.
Most days I wonder why I don’t have you on ignore. But today, I do not completely disagree with this.
Respectfully disagree. The fact that a school only puts 20,000 fans in their 65,000 seat stadium absolutely has an impact on their brand. If the brand was that great then people (especially in high population areas) would want to attend.
I’ll take that as a compliment, and do my best to become the poster you’d like me to be. How’s that sound?
Now, back on topic…. this hatred of the Big 12 seemed to all start when they went with the all spread attacks and game scores were like 65-50. For whatever reason, they all hated that.
