Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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Pac 12 has nothing, that coast cares less and less about college football every year, meanwhile probably every Big 12 team has interest steady or rising.
Fine the 4 corners dont want to come, no problem, we pick off some ACC leftovers, say Louisville and Virginia Tech whenever they are ready. Sorry being in the middle of the country is a huge advantage. And we dont have to expand west, BYU is perfectly fine being on an island out there after being left out of the Pac 12, and WVU knows at this point we are going to match them some more teams out East.
No one from the Big 12 is going to the play exclusively on a coast where people care less and less about football. And the ACC raid is without a doubt going to happen.
Fine the 4 corners dont want to come, no problem, we pick off some ACC leftovers, say Louisville and Virginia Tech whenever they are ready. Sorry being in the middle of the country is a huge advantage. And we dont have to expand west, BYU is perfectly fine being on an island out there after being left out of the Pac 12, and WVU knows at this point we are going to match them some more teams out East.
No one from the Big 12 is going to the play exclusively on a coast where people care less and less about football. And the ACC raid is without a doubt going to happen.
The Big 12 has leverage, primarily that the Big 18 makes more money and is better long term for mountain schools than being in a CA-less apathetic west coast conference.
We also are not on the clock with schools hoping to leave. Stick together and Fox/ESPN will have to battle to control the 3rd conference, and thus college athletics
Stay the course, stick together, and all Big 12 schools get the best possible outcome in the P2 era that’s been forced on them. ESPN only controls the situation if they divide us, and that price is P2 offer
I assume you mean for some kind of option where the ACC takes some and the Big 12 takes some?
Speculating, in such an arrangement they might be working together to consolidate media rights to try to keep new entrants from the market. There's a looming threat to these two players from new entrants like Apple\Amazon, who have massive piles of money to play with.
The operating theory is in order to delay new entrance into the market.
Fox/ESPN split up map into P2 of all top assets leaves little lost to appleTV.
But espn pissed off Fox when taking OUT and not letting Fox know
And puts the Pac 10 at about $25 million. Not sure they would leap to the Big 12 for $5 million more.
They did win at Notre Dame and barely lost to Georgia in the 2021 Peach Bowl. I guess we shall see next season.
so I will be conservative and use the low end, 500 mil. The payout would be 31 mil per school?
My fear is that ESPN will look to combine the ACC and PAC leftovers into the #3 conference. No way are they going to seed #3 spot to FOX.
This is an updated tweet from the same guy. Sounds like Big 12 is worth more than people think. Everyone needs to remember, none of the Big 12 numbers bandied about include Tier 3 rights whereas all other schools have Tier 3 rights included in their total numbers. This make Big 12 payouts much higher than Pac, not the $5million you are seeing. Probably at least $15million more in the Big 12 compared to Pac.
Oh yea, I was more wondering how it appeases the leftover ACC teams. They're gonna hate that.
That guy makes up everything he posts and people keep falling for it hook, line , and sinker.
Let’s assume this is somewhat accurate. There are still at least two data points I’d want to see.
1. Future Big 12 (8 + BYU/Cincy/Houston/UCF)
2. Future Big 12 + Pac4
I can only assume it's the crowd that was 10 years old when this all started so they don't know what an idiot that guy is with multiple online accounts.
Look at this reply tweet. You can say anything on the internet and nobody can stop you.
(ESPN routinely bids for sports broadcasting rights. They're one of like 3-5 companies that determines what Big 12 media rights are worth because they're the ones bidding for it. They are the market. Does anyone really believe they're going to be caught off guard here?)
MHVer is the QAnon of realignment.
Reminds me of a year ago when people were reading tea leaves and drawing wild conclusions to get Iowa State in the B1G. It was B1GAnon. The comforting thought that an insider is sharing secrets with you and everything is going to work out wildly better than the haters believe.
Reminds me of a year ago when people were reading tea leaves and drawing wild conclusions to get Iowa State in the B1G. It was B1GAnon. The comforting thought that an insider is sharing secrets with you and everything is going to work out wildly better than the haters believe.
