Players Era
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They seemed like the clear outlier from the start. Also lost to the Blue Devils by 13 last week....the Central Connecticut Blue Devils.
More info from SBJ about the Big 12's future tie-in with this event:
Big 12 to get investment stake in Players Era Festival
The Big 12 is set to announce a five-year deal to take a 15% equity stake in Players Era, along with a minimum guarantee from annual revenues.www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
The Big 12 is set to announce a five-year deal to take a 15% equity stake in the Players Era Festival, along with a minimum guarantee from annual revenues, those involved with the agreement told Sports Business Journal. The equity stake begins immediately, while the minimum guarantee will begin with next year’s event.
As part of the deal, the Big 12 will receive eight bids to the Players Era tournament when it expands to 32 teams next season. Those teams will be selected based on conference standings from the previous year.
Seth Berger, CEO of Players Era and the former founder of And1, noted the tournament is also set to put $50M-plus into Big 12 basketball programs in rights fees as part of the deal slated to be announced on Monday.
They're stacking this to be a mini-NCAA tournament and it could (could, mind you) be 9-figure media rights revenue in a couple years.
This is fantastic and Yormark is a genius. Don't just be an employee, be part-owner.
Tennessee up by 26 at the half. They've got a good start on the margin of victory angle.
Google had negative earnings for some time and they turned out OK.
The answer to your question is maybe. If this tournament takes off it could get a huge TV money number. That's the gamble.
Barnes said one of the new players is the most talented he's had since Durant at Texas.
how tf do schools build a schedule for this?
say ISU went 0-3 out there. they'd obv not qualify for week 3 championship, so then theyre just SOL on any games that week?
say ISU went 0-3 out there. they'd obv not qualify for week 3 championship, so then theyre just SOL on any games that week?
You're probably right. It'll be interesting to see who bids because I'm not sure WBD can have that outlay while also being very publicly for sale. Feels like an opening for FOX.
With MTE reform, there are no rules anymore really and everybody has a 32nd game now so logistically it works. The only down side is that it is absolutely going to decimate scheduling whenever that third week of the tournament falls.
They didn't have much margin anyway and losing McAndrew for the year was just a killer.
