They must have their share of southern egos maniacs also. $10M a year in the scheme of things is not a game changer when it is 7-10% of the budget. These school netwroks are more about seeing school smiley faces on the tube. This is more like invigorating the fan base by Joe D Bag having his friends over to review last weeks games with a brewsky. This is more like catching the latest coach interviews in the man cave so they can be drunked up for the big game on Saturday. This is like clonezone on droids. Is this what the world has come to? Yes.
*****The Super, Mega, Huge Big 12 Expansion Thread*****
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Again, a third of the $15M goes to education and not school sports. It is really a $10M pot for athletes. It is good pub to say you are doing something good for the education while raking in the dough.
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This Boren/Deaton hoopla is about POWER and MANIPULATION.
MONEY is a side bonus. Stoops seemed uncomforatable with the boss around.
It is that cut and dried. Texas isn't just negotiating with member schools for rights, before they could even approach schools they had to get Fox to agree to sell the individual rights to those games to ESPN and the LHN.
The scenario you suggested could not happen because the new conference and the University has no say whatsoever in media content in the proposed scenario. If UT were to go to the Pac 12, for example, ESPN/ABC would have first rights to that game in Austin per the B12's media contract. UT or the Pac-12 don't get to "decide" that it is a tier 3 game. Games only fall to Tier 3 when all other contracted media partners have passed.
Just more tripe. The OU powerplay failed when Larry Scott was bounced to the curb by the six NO university president votes. Now Alden and Deaton stir the pot because they still have a hot offer from the SEC to go into oblivion. This is just trying to push UT over the cliff to dismantle the LHN. Really, these people should get a life and just get back to football.
Seems to me we need a BIG12 Network worse than ever so these people can parade on stage. Thank god, we have two reasonable people (GC/JP) at Ames.
Neinas first action should be to reinforce the $28M Tampon exit fee and tell the Agonies they have two weejs to get off the pot or further action will be taken to get a decision. The Aggies big dream off without an exit fee is going down the tubes. We need Ken "Shining" Starr to go visit the Jars and talk more sense to them.
JBH is correct, at least as I understand it. It would be up to ABC/ESPN to decide whether or not to broadcast a USC-UT game in Austin. However, the B12 would get the $$ for the broadcast, not UT or the Pac-12.
Posturing here with the 5MM to school. If the AD closed shop who gets everything? UT. They are just passing it along earlier. I don't know if they give the academic side anything now or not. They already have more money than they know what to do with, so it is just a pittance to them.
Yeah, Vanderbilt is looking good this year. When they can recruit Texas, Vbilt should get better.
Nebby may meet their Waterloo at 7,280 feet in Laramie this weekend or then at Wiscyland. Then the catbird naysayers will be out en masse.
Tailgating at Madison is not as good as driving the flatlands to Oklahoma/Kansas/Texas road trips. Their big tailgating adventurelands wil now be IC (good luck with that) and Columbus. Maybe Northwestern for an expected win. Columbia has more appeal to their diehards as it more driveable.
It means the other 7 schools' board of regents has to approve the "grant of rights" while OU/OSU's presidents can do it for them. For the people freaking out last night because this wasn't a signed, sealed, and delivered agreement....there simply wasn't even time to get everyone's approval in less than 24 hours.
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