Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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The Big12 also signed a bigger deal without OuuT. The PAC hasn’t signed any deal without USCLA even though starting negotiations earlier.
Let's revisit from a year ago from King George:
With respect to the Big 12 being open for business, I appreciate that," Kliavkoff quipped. "We haven't decided if we're going shopping there yet or not."
Kliavkoff later told me that his frustration stemmed from 29 days spent watching grenades get launched from "every corner of the Big 12." He was weary with the disinformation campaign and annoyed at what many believed to be an orchestrated attempt to erode the Pac-12's brand.
"I understand why they're doing it," Kliavkoff told me, "when you look at the relative media value between the two conferences. I get it, I get why they're scared, why they're trying to destabilize it. I was just tired of that."
All that above after receiving 29 days of lobbed grenades. How is he going to react today after 365 days of howitzers barrages?
With respect to the Big 12 being open for business, I appreciate that," Kliavkoff quipped. "We haven't decided if we're going shopping there yet or not."
Kliavkoff later told me that his frustration stemmed from 29 days spent watching grenades get launched from "every corner of the Big 12." He was weary with the disinformation campaign and annoyed at what many believed to be an orchestrated attempt to erode the Pac-12's brand.
"I understand why they're doing it," Kliavkoff told me, "when you look at the relative media value between the two conferences. I get it, I get why they're scared, why they're trying to destabilize it. I was just tired of that."
All that above after receiving 29 days of lobbed grenades. How is he going to react today after 365 days of howitzers barrages?
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Yeah all that bluster. At the time i thought he was just posturing, trying to shape the perception of the PAC being so much better, to drive demand for his product from the media bidders. And thats fine, you gotta puff your product, thats what a salesman does.
Now i think he was a true believer that it was true. Totally deluded. Thought the B12 was the MWC and THATS why B12 got half the P2 number. And super confident the PAC was closer to the B1G than the B12 of course and thus would get ~50M.
Arrogant and clueless. Uninformed and unprepared.
Looking forward to the leaked numbers today
Couldn't agree more. As the saying goes, be humble or be humbled. I believe George and the Pac are about to experience the latter.
Let's just hope under whatever 'revenue' they claim to get that their net P12 profit is all that it's hyped up to be. Is there a back-charge for P12 network? Are there performance metrics on viewership? Are there 'deferred' charges? So many accounting tricks to make things look better than they are. Same goes for B12 too.
I think for a streamer like Apple locking down unscripted stuff would be huge since they won’t have much else going on with their service.
For Disney/Fox, they have tons of other content and they’ll be losing money anyway, I can’t see them going hard at it.
If they get close to the big 12 # IMO Apple will het a huge amount of their games.
Even if OU/UT is bigger loss (it probably is in new streaming world) you have to factor in that Big 12 has been fully picked over and still at least 50/50 chance Pac still loses more of its top draw teams.
Maybe it's splitting hairs, but he didn't say "better than the Big 12"
Only that they want to be in the 3 hole. Which the Big 12 is. Deeply in the 3 hole
One of the things that could make all this really interesting is the GOR. If Oregon and Washington think they are going to greener pastures, they might not sign any GOR and that can submarine the entire deal.
Oh but WilClown said that was already done right? Except no one signed it when they agreed on it? Weird.
BY: Hey Apple: "What if I can work a deal on our existing contract to allow you entry into CFB with much less risk and greater return on investment?" Hey ESPN/Fox: "What if I can work a deal with Apple to bring OR/WA to the B12 and allow you to keep a piece of the additional pie, but Apple getting most of it for those two additional teams?" Hey WA/OR: "Have I got a deal for you!"
I know it's an out-of-the-box stretch, but if you don't ask you'll never know.
At some point in the next 12 months, they'll have to choose one of the following options:
- Sign onto whatever media deal the PAC manages to finally put together and the GOR that runs the length of the new deal.
- Jump to the B12 and sign into their GOR through 2031.
- Stay in the PAC even though the conference doesn't have a media deal.
- Go independent.
Seems like the message about 11 months ago was exactly the opposite? Does anyone have those quotes?
