The only leverage Yormark may have is with basketball. How he can use that is a whole other question.
Brett Yormark called ESPN?
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I’m so excited about the TBS thing. I loathe ESPN. It’s unbelievable what a garbage organization they’ve become.
Maybe it’s the Mandela effect, but I swear I heard him say when he was in the booth that this was his first time there for a game.
I havent seen the TV clip, but can confirm that hes been to the Trice previously. I have seen him there at least once before.
Well said. Remember, ESPN wanted to relegate the 8 schools to the AAC before some things were public. Bowlsby’s receipts probably helped save us. We got a fairer deal after working through the OUT exit. And Yormark opened negotiations early to grab the PAC deal they were waffling over.
ESPN and Fox have a monopoly thing going on with sports coverage. My hope is that streaming continues to get more popular, and Apple and Amazon jump into the mix.
He said it was how family's first time there.
The problem is that the committee is going to go out of there way to slot the Big 12 in very unfavorable positions. Saying just wind some playoff games is like telling poor people to get better jobs.
IMO the College Football Playoffs impact way too many things for one effing network to be the sole carrier. This should 100% be split between Fox and ESPN. The mothership has way too much skin in the game and it impacts how they are covering the sport and not in a good way.
the big 12 should bring on his twin brother, once one of them goes to sleep the other one is activated and goes to work calling ESPN and changing the narrative. A 24/7 commish
Under the current format, no Big XII team will ever host a playoff game. Once they inevitably nix the auto-bye for conference champs, then maybe we can hope for it.
Why?
Is it not possible for one of our league teams to be ranked 5-8?
It's as possible as it is for any league. The formula is to get ranked early and win games without stumbling in November. Honestly, if ISU only loses to one of Tech or Ku last month that's probably where we'd be.
The Big 12 has four 2 loss teams at the top of the league, 3/4 lost to Kansas. All of the teams with any historical success have been mediocre or terrible.
Is it fair that the media judges a league based on historical success and not the play on the field? No, but it shouldn’t surprise anybody at this point. Does it suck as an Iowa state fan to hear your league is trash during your best season in school history? Absolutely.
It doesn’t matter that Alabama has 9 wins, the fact they lost to Vanderbilt means they are trash this year in the eyes of most people.
Is it fair that the media judges a league based on historical success and not the play on the field? No, but it shouldn’t surprise anybody at this point. Does it suck as an Iowa state fan to hear your league is trash during your best season in school history? Absolutely.
It doesn’t matter that Alabama has 9 wins, the fact they lost to Vanderbilt means they are trash this year in the eyes of most people.
This tells me that Kansas Football is a terrorist organization
Nothing but ISU bias. Until we beat a Notre Dame, Ohio State, etc. in the playoffs we are from the other side of the tracks. Of course they stack the deck so it makes it difficult to do that too.
Nothing will change until ESPN loses total rights to the CFP. Them being able to have a monopoly on it is the worst case scenario for everyone else. I hate ESPN. I don't watch a single program on their network unless it's a live game of one of my teams. I watch Fox Big Noon Kick Off on Saturdays, and watch NFL Network on Sunday Morning. Monday nights I won't turn it on until 2 minutes before the MNF game kicks.
We'd have to be ranked that while simultaneously losing in the CCG, that's the tricky part. A Big XII champion could absolutely end the year ranked that high, but they'll be one of the top 4 seeds and skip the first round. The only way I could see it even having a chance of happening is a 12-0 team loses in the CCG, a la TCU in 2022. But I don't think the committee will ever let the second place Big XII team (especially a Northern one, but that's another conversation) finish above enough of the SEC/B1G brands.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying a Big XII runner up shouldn't ever be ranked there, but the CFP isn't designed to be fair.
I'd love to see another network carry it, mostly because ESPN's production quality is garbage, but why do you think it would be any different if Fox or whomever was involved? All of the networks want the most attractive brands in the CFP, regardless of conference affiliation, and as long as it's a TV product (spoiler: it always will be) maximizing viewership will always be the primary goal.
Which is exactly why any pseudo-debate about the bubble teams with Alabama involved in that group is hilarious. Bama will be in. There is no question. People failing to see the embedded bias they have made little to no effort to hide is mindboggling. This system isn't fair and anyone pretending that it is on TV or otherwise shouldn't be taken seriously.
