Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[ISUCyclones2015]

I understand the value of rankings, open doors, and perception of academics for universities obviously. It’s kind of a pet peeve for me though.

This is completely anecdotal. But, my company is based in SF and as we were accelerating our growth/hiring in 2016 we added a lot of Stanford/Cal grads as well as recent grads from other schools. The absolute rockstar on my team was from Penn State, a good school but still a state school). I, myself am an ISU grad, and I was having to hold the hands of a lot of Stanford and Cal grads, who all flamed out within a year. They absolutely could not handle the gig. It was then where I realized, the person is all that matters, not the school.

This doesn’t really have anything to do with realignment. But when I see posts about Georgia being so much better of a business school than Kansas, or the PAC 12 schools being light years ahead of B12 in academics, none of that means jack **** in the real world.

I work customer facing of a big tech company and my anecdotal evidence is that all the grads from the “smart” schools like Stanford, MIT, Cornell etc all flame out in a year. They can’t handle talking with customers and especially frustrated customers. People who went to State schools, especially Southern or Midwest ones like Illinois, Alabama, Georgia, ISU etc really excel.

It’s unfortunate we’ve basically stopped recruiting at ISU due to the College of Engineering screwery with career fair stuff. We’ve basically opened a major pipeline with Alabama and Georgia instead and a ton of grads get hired from them.

 

[AlaCyclone]

No. But might get an idea of what the media $ is estimated at

But stream appears to be offline still, maybe they aren't streaming the executive session portion?

Mon Dieu!
And they want to be the Premier streAming Conference?
/ sarcasm

 

[Acylum]

“Creative and forward-thinking” is code for “It’s gonna suck” I’m guessing.

 

[RustShack]

“Creative and forward-thinking” is code for “It’s gonna suck” I’m guessing.

Mostly streaming would be my guess on what that means. And maybe a channel not known for sports.

 

[JP4CY]

“Creative and forward-thinking” is code for “It’s gonna suck” I’m guessing.

Friday Night on CW!

 

[Acylum]

Mostly streaming would be my guess on what that means. And maybe a channel not known for sports.

First thing I thought was “Heavy on streaming” also.

 

[cyIclSoneU]

"Creative" to me could mean:

*Heavy on streaming,
*On some channel you don't think of for sports,
*More weeknight games,
*If weeknight games are played, opportunities to flex games to those slots mid-season.

Could be something like USA and Peacock (both owned by NBC) buy a chunk of Pac-12 rights, and they pay for the best game to be Friday Nights on Peacock, and they get to flex some Friday Night games 12 days in advance.

George K. will do whatever it takes to hit a dollar amount that he thinks keeps the Four Corners around. So long as the B1G doesn't come calling, he can hold a league together for another decade or so. And then what would he care if the Pac dissolves; he's gonna be retiring anyway.

 

[theshadow]

Could be something like USA

Bring back "Up All Night" -- 8/9pm CT kickoff followed by a ****** B movie.

 

[isucy86]

“Creative and forward-thinking” is code for “It’s gonna suck” I’m guessing.

I would expect a base around $20-$22M and then potential upside revenue by school based on game viewership or new subscription #'s.

Could be how Pac12 implements unequal revenue if it is part of Apple's agreement with Pac.

 

[HFCS]

"Creative" to me could mean:

*Heavy on streaming,
*On some channel you don't think of for sports,
*More weeknight games,
*If weeknight games are played, opportunities to flex games to those slots mid-season.

Could be something like USA and Peacock (both owned by NBC) buy a chunk of Pac-12 rights, and they pay for the best game to be Friday Nights on Peacock, and they get to flex some Friday Night games 12 days in advance.

George K. will do whatever it takes to hit a dollar amount that he thinks keeps the Four Corners around. So long as the B1G doesn't come calling, he can hold a league together for another decade or so. And then what would he care if the Pac dissolves; he's gonna be retiring anyway.

The worst "creative" scenario is that their deal is dependent on actual streaming eyeballs.

Real eyeballs is what they haven't had and won't have. It's why the Big 12 is in better position.

 

[HouClone]

“Creative and forward-thinking” is code for “It’s gonna suck” I’m guessing.

Looks like Jim spoke with Washington State and Oregon State.

 

[jdoggivjc]

“Creative and forward-thinking” is code for “It’s gonna suck” I’m guessing.

"Suck" as in late night window after ION gets done airing their WNBA games.

 

[Acylum]

"Suck" as in late night window after ION gets done airing their WNBA games.

I don’t think those seasons overlap but point taken.

 

[CycloneBamaFan]

“Creative and forward-thinking” is code for “It’s gonna suck” I’m guessing.

I do believe there is a chance the PAC12 stays together and the BIG12 does not expand with Arizona, CU, etc. This maybe viewed as a negative towards the BIG12. Call it egg on the face or failure to close the deal.

 

[BCClone]

I do believe there is a chance the PAC12 stays together and the BIG12 does not expand with Arizona, CU, etc. This maybe viewed as a negative towards the BIG12. Call it egg on the face or failure to close the deal.

How would it be egg on the face? Some people overthink this.

 

[dafarmer]

Hallmark channel needs something besides Christmas Romcom's!

 

[Gonzo]

Hallmark channel needs something besides Christmas Romcom's!

Are you kidding? Hallmark Channel Xmas movies are pretty much all I've been watching since November of 2016.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Bring back "Up All Night" -- 8/9pm CT kickoff followed by a ****** B movie.

And then Nightflight with music videos from
Duran Duran and A Flock Of Seagulls

 

[BCClone]

Bring back "Up All Night" -- 8/9pm CT kickoff followed by a ****** B movie.

Gilbert is gone, is Elvira still around?

 

[CascadeClone]

And then Nightflight with music videos from
Duran Duran and A Flock Of Seagulls

Jesus howard christ what a flashback. Did i take acie?