seems deliberate more than just incompetence. Hopefully Izzo can rally the MSU base to gut the BoT
If I say anything else, it goes to the cave
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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If I say anything else, it goes to the cave
And ESPN said Hollis is interested in being an interim. That is crazy in my view.
That the P2 is only interested in competition if they are provided a competitive advantage?
I never could have seen that coming.
Yep, the only two conferences who aren't supportive are the ones who are making obscene money off the current system. Shocking.
I mean, we never had an issue making way more than G5
Everyone is out for themselves. The P2 had help from a couple networks to gain benefit. Everyone else is responding by trying to use legislation to benefit
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The SEC and B10 have no legit reason to oppose the bill.
Their TV partners obviously do.
It's always important to be reminded that the P2 are just subsidiaries of their various broadcast entities. Like a more popular UFL.
Plenty of legit reasons but yeah it makes 100% sense for every other conference to be in favor of it. When you get an advantage in sports you don’t willingly give it up
When Fox literally has a seat on the Big 10 board of trustees, the Big 10 is not run by University Presidents but by their TV partner.
I get that perception. But all the Conferences hire their own media consultants to guide the Conference office on selecting TV partners.
The SEC is entirely ESPN because their long-term partner CBS didn't step up.
Sure FOX has a place at the table, but they wisely paid for that by ownership of BTN. But reality is FOX only pays about 33% of Big 10 media rights. NBC & CBS each also paid a third. So the Big 10 current deal really reflects market pricing.
Then we have Big12. If Big12 TV Consultants had told Yormark he could get more by going to market in 2023 he would have. Obviously, Yormark was told the existing ESPN/FOX deal the Big12 had was the best option.
The folks promising big money are TV consultants on the outside, not entities that would actually buy Conference Media Rights.
They expanded with the schools they did at the direct request and guidance of their TV partners. That’s not a conspiracy, it’s a known reality.
What made those leagues strong originally was a combination of large population states or plethora of in-conference football talent, combined with power programs that were A) benevolent towards their less resourced partners, and B) desired their own fiefdom.
The Big 8/SWC and Pac 8/10/12 footprints were dominated by schools that had absolutely no sense of community towards the less resourced partners and weren’t all that interested in creating their own orbits. And in what was most important, they were based west of the Mississippi in places with smaller populations, less high end talent, and less national audiences.
Between the demographic advantages of the Big 10/SEC footprints, and the unified fronts of their power programs, they were the better flagships for the TV powers to propagate
For the LA schools certainly, but also that request was nothing that the big ten wouldn’t have wanted to do. That’s the point. People bring up Fox as if they are calling the shots but there isn’t a single thing that has happened that the presidents didn’t want to sign off on.
Nebraska is really the only school that doesn’t fit into what the big ten views itself as and that happened way before
It’s very likely though that the Presidents aren’t as “we want to destroy the rest of college sports” without Fox’s pressure to do so for Fox’s benefit.
Without that external pressure from TV to destroy the sport, the Big 10 probably doesn’t look any different today than it did in 1995.
The Presidents were not the architects of these moves. They enacted them out of fiduciary responsibility.
