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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues

Agree, at a minimum 48 but I now think it’ll be 52.

It’s easier to look at it this way - which P5 schools wouldn’t make the cut?

Vandy
Northwestern
Wash St
Oregon St
Kansas St
TCU
Texas Tech
Iowa St
Syracuse
Louisville
Wake Forest
Boston College
Duke
Cincy
Houston
UCF

I prioritize NFL cities, state flagship AAUs, state flagship non-AAUs, then non-state flagship AAUs, and lastly non-state flagship non-AAUs.

Then non-state flagship non-AAU list is the hardest one to solve. You have guaranteed schools like ND, FSU, Miami, Clemson, but then tweeners like NC State, ASU, Baylor, Ok St that are too big to leave out but could make a case to not let in for various reasons.
Yeah, I could see a number of non-P2 programs being left out. I can’t see Northwestern or Vandy being kicked out, though.
 
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While it seems like the PAC-12 will be good for 2023 and even with a new TV deal. I do worry about NU President's statement. We all know that the PAC-12 TV contract won't start till 2024, if the Big Ten adds Stanford, Cal, Washington, and Oregon. That could be too damning. To destroy the ACC, you need 8 teams willing to do it. I worry about that because Duke or Georgia Tech could be coveted by the Big Ten and that's 8 or 9 and then ND is forced to make a decision. Man, the SEC and Big Ten can really kill college football as we know it.

Cal and Stanford's research funds are mainly keeping most of these members afloat from flat-out bailing.
 
While it seems like the PAC-12 will be good for 2023 and even with a new TV deal. I do worry about NU President's statement. We all know that the PAC-12 TV contract won't start till 2024, if the Big Ten adds Stanford, Cal, Washington, and Oregon. That could be too damning. To destroy the ACC, you need 8 teams willing to do it. I worry about that because Duke or Georgia Tech could be coveted by the Big Ten and that's 8 or 9 and then ND is forced to make a decision. Man, the SEC and Big Ten can really kill college football as we know it.

Cal and Stanford's research funds are mainly keeping most of these members afloat from flat-out bailing.
Or he was talking about Colorado, Utah, Oregon and Washington. Does Nebraska really want Stanford and Cal over us? These non-AAU mouth breathers don’t want two elitist schools looking down at them (working hypothesis) over their true rivals. Especially given the rivalry talk this offseason.
 
Sounds like the schools will not get the massive amount of money that was originally reported
Big Ten just doing what ever the hell they want to and acting like it is all good.
Makes me hate USC and UCLA more for going along for the charade
 
I question how big the B1G and SEC can get while increasing revenue for existing members through the addition of new ones. It's one thing to bring enough value as the 13th and 14th teams like in this round when OU/UT and USC/UCLA were added. But to think any program adds enough media value to increase revenues for the existing 14 while also cutting the pie into a 15th slice - color me skeptical. And the teams left out of their huge media deals are not going to accept that they're making what they are while lesser programs who were legacies in the B1G and SEC earn twice what they do. I don't have a crystal ball for predicting what eventually shakes out, but I'm certain that the status quo cannot hold.
Two things.

1. Rumor has it the other existing B1G members tapped the brakes on adding more teams after UCLA and USC. The more teams there are the less exposure there will be because you cant add more time to the day. The existing members are nervous about that exposure decline. Nervous about the marquee names crowding them out. The much expanded B1G is still essentially dominated by a couple of programs that get most of the air time. And they also coincidentally get most of the recruits.

2. The Cord Cutter Thread shows that Its still happening. Some Cable Companies are even dropping the programming part of their business and focusing on the internet provider part. Cable is ceding the TV programming business to YouTubeTV(YTTV). That says a lot about the stte of play today. Remember the move to add Rutgers had mostly to do with getting NYC/NJ declared “in market” for juicing the B1G Ten Network cable rate. Is that in the contract for YTTV? When cable drops programming does every home sign up for YTTV? Not likely. YTTV is also vastly more portable in terms of zip code of consumption.

The point: A lots gonna change in the next five years or less and that will come into focus in terms of how or if consumers consume. Will the money still be there for billion dollar deals? Where will that money come from?

I think the model is going to shift back to the primary broadcast TV and ad supported revenue model because thats where max audience will be. Streaming will be niche audience, homers and alums for their local connection. The old cable set top go to market assumed a national cable payers model. Niche will not match that cable revenue.

My opinion is peak all this might be peaking right now or will soon.
 
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Plus, it's got a scantily clad Rebecca Ferratti. ;)


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Thamel (ESPN) exposes an issue with Fox and B1G deal.

Marchand (Fox) tells everyone ESPN is out of the P12 deal.

Oh what? Marchand and Fox? He writes for the NY Post which is owned by you f’ing guessed it.

There’s always a reason why the news is written a certain way and that reason is almost always money (self preservation).
 
Thamel (ESPN) exposes an issue with Fox and B1G deal.

Marchand (Fox) tells everyone ESPN is out of the P12 deal.

Oh what? Marchand and Fox? He writes for the NY Post which is owned by you f’ing guessed it.

There’s always a reason why the news is written a certain way and that reason is almost always money (self preservation).
It's becoming almost impossible to differentiate "news" from "infotainment"
 
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