There will be a great deal next month, is the new "free beer tomorrow"
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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There will be a great deal next month, is the new "free beer tomorrow"
Honestly at this point I just want to see the insane spin they put on it to make it appear that it is a better deal then the Big12 got.
The Tim Donaghy stuff still kinda rings in my mind whenever I think about this
The new spin is back to FOX. I really feel like we're all just living in a massive revolving loop of bull **** lol
There's not really a deadline per se, but there's a lot that goes into making a conference change and institutions the size of a University aren't exactly agile. 12 months seems like a very ambitions timeline. We're about 15 mos out from the expiration of the PAC's current deal.
This all reminds me of owing your drug dealer and finding new ways to string it out because you don’t have the money.
Marty Byrde next PAC commissioner confirmed.
I feel like the only way fox would be back in is if they were getting an insane bargain. I also very much doubt they are back in.
Good lord, what a strategy that would be: "She can't divorce me if I hide from the subpoena guy forever!"
But really, there's no deadline from Big12 that I can think of. I think it's just a guy falling out of an airplane without a parachute - he's going to keep trying to flap his arms and fly as long as he can.
All children of Fox execs get auto acceptance into any PAC school of their choice! Free room and board for anyone at VP level or higher!
Think they get the naming rights of the conference, the Fox12 has a nice ring to it.
Can’t wait for The Simpsons special edition jerseys!
I would be curious how an ACC/Pac12 merger is even possible. For that to happen ESPN has to agree to add 10 Pac12 teams to its ACC deal. At $17M/school that would be around $175M. If the Big12 adds 4 corner schools that's around $80M incremental investment for ESPN ($31.7x60%x4).
If ESPN isn't willing to be an aggressive bidder in the ongoing Pac12 media rights negotiations, why would they want to invest hundreds of millions to add Pac12 schools to the ACC? And I believe the current ACC deal with ESPN is for less money than the Pac12 is hoping to get with their current negotiations.
Not sure where the recent interest in an ACC/Pac12 merger comes from. About a year ago the UNC AD Cunningham brought it up in an email, but that is old news. I feel like Cunningham was using the merger as a tool to cause ESPN to reopen its deal with the ACC. With the economy trending down & ESPN laying off people, it might not be a great time to push ESPN. They might just tell the ACC they can do so only by breaking their deal with ESPN.
With the Billions that ESPN is going to invest in the upcoming 12 team playoff, it might prefer not being saddled with the ACCN deal ($250M+ annually) through 2036. It's not like ESPN doesn't already have the inventory with their SEC & Big12 deals. If anything, it would seem to add value to the SEC/Big12 deals as more football and basketball games can be shown on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 where advertising rates are higher than SECN or ESPN+.
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If the Big 10 really did have "national ambitions", then having teams in FL and even TX would probably be on the table.
