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Had it good when we didn’t have to hear or think about these clowns. I saw a thread on Twitter where one of them was talking about Nebraska voluntarily going back to the B12 if we joined. That’s the level of stupidity we’re dealing with.i am pretty sure we've lost the thread, again.
**** THE BIG12 to hell and back.
i am pretty sure we've lost the thread, again.
**** THE BIG12 to hell and back.
Great movie !
Just when I thought this thread couldn't get any more riveting!
From 2014…
When the Big Ten added Rutgers and Maryland, the college sports world scratched their collective heads.
And in this case, the Big Ten’s money would come from getting Big Ten Network on cable providers in New York City and elsewhere along the east coast.
At last check, the channel charges a $1.00 fee per subscriber per month for those customers within the conference footprint, which NY/NJ now falls into thanks to Rutgers. Much like the “Is Andy Murray British or Scottish debate,” New Jersey gets to be a part of the NYC metropolitan area seemingly only when it’s convenient to someone looking to make money.
Cablevision has 3.1 million subscribers in the area. Time Warner has a little more than 2.6 million subscribers in New York state, many of them concentrated in the city. New Jersey has a fraction of that at just over 40,000. Let’s just be extra conservative and put the total number of subscribers that will now get BTN at 4 million.
Just from this deal alone, the Big Ten just pocketed an extra $48 million per year. And that’s just from one carriage agreement in New York City. Let’s not forget Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and the rest of the I-95 corridor that BTN will look to expand into.
Big Ten Network hits the NYC jackpot worth tens of millions of dollars
When the Big Ten added Rutgers and Maryland, the college sports world scratched their collective heads. Here were two schools that had little to no previous connection to the conference, a mediocre athletic resume (especially where it counts in football), and a distant geographic relationship...awfulannouncing.com
There are about 6 million California cable TV subscribers that will probably see their BTN fee increase because they are now inside the Conference footprint and garners the higher carriage fee.
Adding USC and UCLA could give Big Ten Network a huge revenue boost
Going from the out-of-footprint per-subscriber fee to the in-footprint one even for just Los Angeles would massively boost Big Ten Network.awfulannouncing.com
This is what gets me. People think we hired Prime to… go to the B12??how long must this wander through the desert of conference uncertainty go on?
we have PRIME winning to do around here.
also, did i mention? **** the bi12. they will be there if and when we need them.
Listen, I love Prime and all this national attention sure is fun, but the reality is that the average FBS coaching tenure is less than 4 years - conference realignment is not going to be determined by who a school’s coach is at any given time.
I look at it as it’s a signal we’re willing to play ball now. We’re paying him $6M. He leaves, ok we pay the next guy $6-8M. If we actually pay up and keep the transfer thing going we’re going to be fine after he leaves.
If you believe the resources that helped land Prime will still be there for the next guy then maybe, I’m skeptical that there’s anyone else out there that will draw the same levels of support. And keeping this transfer thing going is almost certainly impossible at least at its current level. This success is largely driven by the force of Prime’s popularity and personality.
We’d all be lying to ourselves if we didn’t contemplate what if this is temporary and we slide back post-Prime. It’s all dependent on the president, chancellor, regents and AD. Those positions are fluid so it could regress. Here’s what I hope happens.
Already a better recruiter than KD
Seems odd for Sailman to completely reverse course on everything above but it is CU.
I 100% expect the same University support and resources to still be there for the next coach. What I don't expect is that guy to have the same success in the portal, same success recruiting high school kids, the same outside revenue sources that is very much Prime-specific, etc, but damn right I expect the University to continue its support of football going forward, as long as Todd Saliman is in charge.
When I check out his Twitter profile, it’s obvious the guy loves sports. All of his likes are CU sports related.
Those Prime specific outside revenues will have a direct impact on money available to the program and I don’t expect donor money to match what I suspect the excitement of Prime is helping to bring in.
The University has plenty of money to compete at a high level
Donations will sustain so long as the school shows they are actually investing in football.
The University may, but I’m not sure the AD does. This is so much fun right now, but I doubt we’re selling 35,000 tickets to a spring game for a non-Prime coached team. Donors are excited and engaged and season tickets are hard to get right now and while I hope you’re right that we suddenly flipped a switch with how the school and its supporters fund this program, I remain skeptical that this level can be sustained post Prime. For now it’s a hell of a lot of fun though.
