Your last point is big.
Any chance I get to plug Stewart’s article saying the Big 12 leftovers were worth $7-$12 million per school, I’m going to do it. Guy has been massively out of touch on realignment (you’d think The Athletic’s national CFB lead would be a little more plugged in on what’s going on in CFB…).
Mandel: Big 12's TV numbers explain divide between Texas, Oklahoma and the rest — and why remaining 8 should worry
The reality is there’s very little difference between the TV interest in Kansas State and West Virginia and the interest in UCF or Houston.theathletic.com
Right. It is perhaps worse than him being out of touch or stupid-- he's a deceitful w-h-o-r-e.
Seems questionable thay
If they get a deal for $27m, I think there’s a chance for the PAC to stick together for another 5 years. WAOR (and Stanford) aren’t going to give up on the B10 dream, but they might accept it’s going to have to wait. Even if the PAC manages to pull it off, we’ll be playing this game again at the end of their deal. In the meantime, there’s still a lot that could go wrong.
The meeting he talks about is the meeting that the ADs always schedule the day before the BB tourney.
$25m might do it, but a $5m gap with the B12 has been bandied about as a breaking point. It’s all conjecture, so what’s $2m?
Literally paid according to the news that came out Friday I believe. And others in addition to him.
Length of the deal and GOR is kind of a moot point, IMO. If they get one done, this whole thing is going to play out again when it’s up barring drastic and unforeseen changes. I don’t think it really matters if it’s in the same timetable as the B10. Plus, the reported deals are 5 years with ESPN and 2 years with a 2 year option from Amazon. The 5 year deal gets them to 2029, while the B10 is up in 2031.
I never really bought into the narrative that the b1g took only USCLA so as not to be seen as the conference that ended the PAC. But if there’s a kernel of truth to that, it makes me wonder if there’s a back alley deal where WAOR torpedo the PAC’s media/GOR deal knowing there’s a soft landing awaiting them in the b1g. I don’t see how that makes the b1g look any less worse since they got the ball rolling, but it sure seems like a lot of people are blaming the B12 for the PAC’s impending collapse.
If you were a PAC school, would you take a deal that provides several million/year less and virtually no exposure for your program, all so you can stay in a conference a few more years before it collapses the second the Big 10 extends an offer to WA/OR?
I agree with your points but I am putting $22 million as #1. If WAOR with 4 corners jump to the Big 12, I see at least $40 million each so that is $18 million more with exposure. Sounds like a shoe-in. However, I am skeptical. The disdain for the Big 12 and staying together is there with the WAOR and Pac teams.
The comparison thing will happen no matter what. The coasts see any one not on the coasts as hill billies that are uneducated and knuckle dragging mouth breathers. This is especially true when you have the west coast. Arizona has been their red headed step child long enough that they think they are considered one of them, but they are not. This is where I see the LA schools asking the big ten why they need to play Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Purdue and others. They are going to want to play OSU, Michigan, PSU and a few others.
I did. With WAOR and 4 corners, Big 12 should be able to be able to renegotiate their contact, at least that is my assumption. I guessed $40 million each.
