There's a certain irony (hypocrisy? duplicity?) involved in that the 4 schools that fought tooth-and-nail against equal revenue sharing in the Big 12 all went to conferences with...equal revenue sharing.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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There's a certain irony (hypocrisy? duplicity?) involved in that the 4 schools that fought tooth-and-nail against equal revenue sharing in the Big 12 all went to conferences with...equal revenue sharing.
I'm not seeing them kicking out current conference members, because the big dogs know that someone has to take the L and don't mind paying some of these lower tier schools to be the ones to take a lot of Ls.
I'll never understand how the "super league" grows viewers.
They're going to lose fans like me...and more than replace them by getting people in places like Alabama to watch MORE college football than they do now? Or they're going to get people in regions where people are born as NFL fans to suddenly prefer minor league NFL to actual NFL?
There might be a way for one media company to make slightly more money, but overall interest and total money is guaranteed to go down when you carve things up. In the long run if national interest goes down the whole thing could collapse.
Already this year there's no way i'm watching anything but ISU/Big 12 fb/bb, our bowl hopefully, and the NCAA basketball tournament. Absolutely no way I'm tuning into any B10/SEC games the rest of my life like I would have previous years if there was an intriguing game or upset in the works.
Would that be similar to the "Alliance" between the B1G, PAC, and ACC. What a joke.
The Huskers play in a weak P5 division, they have probably 2 games this year they maybe completely outmatched in.
That is why they are optimistic every year and then fail
That would be so damaging to many schools brands that they would never agree to do it. Some of those schools would become the new Rutgers of that league. Why would they jeopardize being on top when they are already in the top paying conferences?
If ND says no to B1G, it's very possible they might add Stanford and UW rather than UO and UW.
Big12 could take Oregon and Oregon St in that scenario (along with the Mountain 4). Sorry Cal & Wazzu.
They joined the conference 11 years ago. I'm sure they have a lot of swag but you can't tell me they are emotionally tied to the Pac 12 in that much time.
Shocking. You're telling me Big 12 schools weren't enticed to have fewer people watch their games and make less money?
It doesn't grow viewers -- but it concentrates them.
It allows the braodcasters to lock up the biggest brands and ensure ALL marquee matchups every week. Imagine if all 10 games they broadcast weekly had 6 million viewers, the ad revenue per game is fantastic.
That's what Fox & ESPN think will happen, so that's why they are pushing it that way. Reasonable minds may disagree, but I think that is what they think, and what they are trying to do.
Weird reply here. Are you actually reading what he wrote?
Yes, he is reporting the Big 12's side, at least as his sources are telling him. Doesn't mean he'll be right, doesn't mean anyone has to like or it agree, but that's what he's doing.
And I'm no fan of Dodd's either, but this report painted the Big 12 pretty favorably.
I think we’re saying the same thing but I’m not sure what exactly is going on here so good day to you.
It was/is nothing against you or what you said. Just my observation/feelings on Dodd.
I guess I don't read anything he says with any optimism. Kind of like the article that several of the PAC school fans are running with, that promoted a merger with the Big 12 and Pac, but left out ISU, KU and KSU. He is a Mizzou troll.
I rank him up there with Finebaum, and Mandel is not far behind. I don't regard much of anything they report as truth, they all show way too much bias in everything they write/say.
Nebraska is in iowa states conference and has a top 4 brand for 35 years. Then they join Iowas conference and quickly is relegated to a No. 15 brand. Smart move.
Lot of things changed to allow for Nebraska’s fall. Just becuase a school is in a top position doesn’t mean they will stay there. Tenn football, Georgetown/Indiana basketball, etc. There is no rule that OSU and Bama have to remain dominant and NIL is already shifting things. Not that long ago Bama was like Nebraska is now, a shadow of former greatness.
Heh, covet the ACC alliance which is about $5M per team ($35M) vs the new, $30M per team in the PAC 10...dropping the value of the ACC-PAC to approximately $32.5M per team. Sure, Clemson, FSU, Miami, NC, etc. will be all in on actually getting less through 2036...nope, wishful thinking there.
Things seem really good. With that being said, I can’t shake this feeling that the Big 12 will somehow find a way to screw it up. Nothing this positive ever happens to us
Not talking about performance, but a brand. Nebraska fall in its brand is a huge Big 10 failure and is not due mainly to its performance. The big 10 basically hid one of their marquee programs for 12 years in a division that is awful.
