Someone could have told the B1G something about that NYC market before they added Rutgers.
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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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Someone could have told the B1G something about that NYC market before they added Rutgers.
Gotcha, so we think news on all fronts are probably imminent.
I don't have any expectations at this point. It would seem logical that if a media deal has been accepted by all parties, the announcement would happen on or just before media day. However, I can't see any programs announcing they are leaving the Pac 12 on or before media day. It's all speculation at this point.
I don't know about Rutgers, and further, don't care. OU, UT and aTm dominate the DFW market as far as interest goes. I imagine you can find a few TCU and SMU fans around town, but finding one that follows TCU or SMU more than they follow the big three would be a heck of a task.
If it gets your conference network on basic cable with in-market premium rates it does. SMU's value really depends on the new distribution model and structure of assets. If PACN dissolves other than being an app, SMU's value goes down significantly.
Victory
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Have to announce the deal on or prior to Friday. No announcement will turn the event into a media circus of negativity. The brand is already at rock bottom. It would be like poking a hornets nest of misinformation if no deal is announced. The frustration across the campuses would be (should be) high if they let that happen.
I am well aware of how well DFW has served the Sooners for football but DFW is a pretty big market for college football...probably the biggest in the country. NYC is a nice market for college football fans but it's pretty much for any team and Nik is right that it is about basic cable subscribers for something like the P12N or if ESPN or Apple took over the P12N.
Pretty no brainer move for the P12 at this point to add SMU. I'm sure the P12 is under no illusion that SMU will help them carry DFW after the SEC takes over.
ScreamingBeagle
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Nobody knows. It could be an explosive week and half, but who knows anymore.
There was some semi-legitimate reporting last week that indicated we could some push come to shove stuff around the end of the week.
And yet I half-way expect no PaC12 deal and the narrative CU is waiting to see a deal continue well into August.
Media Day will be very interesting. Ideally they have a deal to announce. Worst case from a public relations standpoint would be if they don't have an announcement and then refuse to address the elephant on the room, refusing to field questions or on the topic to limit things to football-related topics. That would be a disaster and I have to believe they're smarter than that.
hawg1
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Does announcing a deal take away from the teams, coaches and players?
Absolutely
Something that will happen one way or the other.
Speculation is the 24th or 25th.
Purely speculation.
Why? Are they going to announce on a Saturday?
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Source: New Pac-12 rights deal in 'near future'
The Pac-12 will not announce a new media rights deal Friday, a source told ESPN, but the conference's patience "is about to pay off" in the "near future."
In addition, there aren’t a lot of people in San Diego who wake up on a Saturday in fall and say, “hey Susie, what time is the SDSU game on? Can’t wait to see ‘em crush Nevada’s ass!”
Getting people to watch mid-level college football on TV is not like doing demographic/market studies to roll out new lines of pet food or garden tools. It leads to all this odd talk about San Diego, Las Vegas, etc.
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Source: New Pac-12 rights deal in 'near future'
The Pac-12 will not announce a new media rights deal Friday, a source told ESPN, but the conference's patience "is about to pay off" in the "near future."www.espn.com
Source: New Pac-12 rights deal in 'near future'
The Pac-12 will not announce a new media rights deal Friday, a source told ESPN, but the conference's patience "is about to pay off" in the "near future."
And I should believe that?
p12 apologists: all is well, wait and see.
b12 apologists: jump in the short bus with us, the pac is doomed.
someone is going to be very upset one way or the other.
i will say this: if we end up in the truck stop 12, my content generation will be even more prolific. it is such a target rich environment.
so, it is kinda a win/win for me and not so much for others.
b12 apologists: jump in the short bus with us, the pac is doomed.
someone is going to be very upset one way or the other.
i will say this: if we end up in the truck stop 12, my content generation will be even more prolific. it is such a target rich environment.
so, it is kinda a win/win for me and not so much for others.
Source: New Pac-12 rights deal in 'near future'
The Pac-12 will not announce a new media rights deal Friday, a source told ESPN, but the conference's patience "is about to pay off" in the "near future."
Nebraska had all those those things too. And there plenty of their fans are plenty pissed off at how they are average in that conference.
Like NU learned about the B1G, A&M and Missouri have already learned about the SEC; If you are not one of 2 or 3 schools that dominate the broadcast coverage youre just a speed bump on their schedule. Once you fail to win you struggle to recruit
Rutgers changed the cable carriage fee from 'out of market' to 'in market' status for all of NJ and for NYC. Everyones cable bill went up and FOX got 50¢ instead of 10¢ for millions of cable and satellite subscriptions.
241Volcanos
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It delivers as much as Rutgers delivers NYC for Big10.
ScreamingBeagle
Active Member
Pretty sure we now know why CU BOR added a last minute athletic status update to its agenda last week, and a few people came away from Big XII feeling the winds of fate were blowing a certain way.
Got a sneaky feeling once CW went with the ACC, the PAC12's linear partner went out the door, and it started to become apparent where this was heading.
Got a sneaky feeling once CW went with the ACC, the PAC12's linear partner went out the door, and it started to become apparent where this was heading.
Sammy11
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Having FOX and an army of local Big Ten alumni all leaning on cable providers made that happen. It's been lucrative for the Big Ten Network angle but they had to add very little to the NBC/CBS/FOX contracts.