Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

Cloneon

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Has anyone said the 'term' of the P12 proposed media deal? Therein lies one of the biggest questions, because one year might see subscriptions rise, but as the product falls off due to whatever reasons (and there are plenty $$$, competition, limited CFP, etc), so will subscriptions. I'm hoping the Presidents/ADs understand they'll have to market the hell out of their teams to increase subscriptions. But, ok. That's their prerogative.
 

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Nobody should be shocked that it didn't go well or that there wasn't a conclusion and GK wants to meet again. If he had a good deal it would've already been presented and signed. I'm guessing Arizona is already planning on going. At this point nothing is changing.
 

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Yeah. I'm guessing they really didn't need Rutgers. Plenty of Big 10 fans in NYC.

It was a matter of footprint, not fans of the conference.

In states outside the Big Ten, they were getting pennies per subscriber. Inside the footprint, it jumped up to near a dollar and was on the basic tier -- no avoiding it by placing it in a separate Sports Pack.

So, once Rutgers was added to the footprint, the Big Ten got an extra 65-80 cents per cable subscriber per month. In NY/NJ, that's a huge number.
 

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At best, the "deal" presented relies on some positive assumptions (all teams staying put and perhaps a list of approved additions). This is what the networks would offer given this set of circumstances. So not really a deal at all.

No one is going to get up and storm out of the room, or even state that the deal is unacceptable. They'll just get up, take it back to their own meetings, and determine their course of action (jump, wait and see, or stay).
 

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And then this ******* guy!



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I’m honestly not sure what the doom and gloom is about. All GK did was put uncertain numbers in front of his presidents and begged for even more time.

His entire playbook is “stall stall stall”.
Idk how people can take anything from that meeting other than they're delaying.. again. which looks bad.
 

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To me it sounds like GK is just trying to delay the inevitable. If the PAC has a deal anywhere close to the BIG12 we would have already heard about it.
 
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Arizona 247 board posters seem to be melting down after hearing this.
They think Robbins (their president) is going to mess this up and stay in the PAC9.
 

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Nobody should be shocked that it didn't go well or that there wasn't a conclusion and GK wants to meet again. If he had a good deal it would've already been presented and signed. I'm guessing Arizona is already planning on going. At this point nothing is changing.

Which goes back to what we were saying in the lead up to Colorado leaving: if GK presented something that was even just “good enough,” this would be all over with and CU wouldn’t have left. Those tweets don’t indicate any significant change in favor of a good deal.