Texas has massive wieght to throw around but the SEC wont care.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Texas has massive wieght to throw around but the SEC wont care.
Not sure that's true. If A&M, UT, NU & OU were against the conference network- why would FSU have wanted a conference network? The Big12 big brands wanted to own their own tier rights. And at the time (around 2010) Clemson was a muddling program.
Over the last decade+, the Big12 has typically had the 3rd highest media rights payout per school without a Conference Network. Sure having a conference network was the priority from 2010-2020. But conference networks have never been where the big $$$ are in media deals. Its network and ESPN linear games. Not so much the BTN, SECN or ACCN.
And go forward, IMO technology will make a linear network obsolete. Much more flexibility with a platform like ESPN+. There is no constraint on inventory levels or game times.
As I said, it won’t cause the problems in the SEC that it did in the Big 12, but there will be problems.
What's funny, is there's nowhere else to go. Or will they be the ones to push unequal revenue sharing? Whatever they do, I'm just glad it's no longer in the B12. I feel badly for OK. I'm guessing they get relegated quicker than TX.
A&M should rename their football stadium to "We Told You So Field" at "But You Wouldn't Listen Stadium"
FSU signed on for the ACCN.
3 conferences with networks in partnership with ESPN or Fox have not lost any members up to this point (B10, ACC, SEC). So the point being made is that a B12 Network would have more than likely kept B12 membership together instead of the attrition that did occur. And that network would have generated far more T3 revenues for all schools except for UT/LHN.
And while the % of captive linear households has decreased, conference networks still generate a decent $ amount from linear and are readily morphed into a non-linear offer as demand dictates.
I am saying that if a Big 12 network would have been started it would have strengthened the conference to a point where FSU and Clemson or Miami would have wanted to join.
Implying quite a bit here. It's probably just minor lawsuit progress for FSU & Clem.
But let's just pretend for a minute its Yormark using PE to pry FSU, Clem, Miami, Duke, VT and NCST to join the Allstate 12. (Since UNC & UND are joining the B1G, naturally, and SEC is holding pat because ESPN has enough inventory already)
That would be great. But FSU, Clemson aren't doing this to make a big conference with all Big 12 teams. If they can't get into the Big 10 or SEC, a new ACC would be their next goal to eliminate dead weight. They could try to entice some Big 12 teams such as Colorado, Utah, OSU, Houston/Texas Tech, Kansas, ISU.
You’ve got 4 of 6 correct. I’m guessing, like you, something to do with the lawsuit progress. I do fully expect FSU and Clemson to announce their intentions to leave pretty soon.
Actually, LSU made the BCS Championship Game at the expense of #01 ranked USC (AP and Coaches Polls) in the 2003 season. I think Saban going to LSU in 2000 and winning the BCS Championship in 2003 was more important than when he went to Alabama in 2007. If he would have stayed at LSU (insted of going to the Dolphons), the Tigers might have double digit National Championships by now.
I believe it would have went that way, mainly because of the conference model we had. No matter how much money was coming in, UT, OU, aTm and Nebby were not going to play nice with the rest of us. Each one would have always wanted more of the pie and it would have caused distrust among the members. What made the Big 10 successful was their willingness to grow the public perception of the conference as opposed to boosting a few member schools.
Wasn’t it more like those 4 couldn’t play nice with each other?
Oh you’re right! Sorry, I was getting that year confused with the following year when the BCS took a 12-0 OU over 12-0 Auburn. But my point still remains, considering in 2003 the voters awarded USC the AP national title
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....only if the B12N would have gone solo without a network partner like PACN did.
Yeah, that’s why I said each one was going to want more. It wasn’t about the conference, it was about Nebraska or Texas, etc. they didn’t care about promoting the conference, only themselves. The Big 12 may have had the tv channel idea first, but the Big 10 got the model right of supporting all members.
