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

[Goose]

uconn is only beautiful in the eyes of the b12 commish.

HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS ISN'T BEAUTIFUL?!?

 

[leftybuff]

I think this is accurate. UA's Robbins seems reluctant to be that guy who collapsed things.

At some point financial reality has to trump the optics....

 

[Bison]

HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS ISN'T BEAUTIFUL?!?

Or BY loves to stare into those eyes.

 

[Shldr2Shldr]

ESPN wants UCONN in a P5 errrr P4 conference. They want a program next door to HQ. It also gets them into the NYC market.

 

[Bison]

 

[Uncle Ken]

Hulu+ could be the better choice next year over YouTubeTV as I don't care about the NFL Sunday Ticket. Plus my wife is nagging me about a handful of shows she wants to watch on there anyway.

This year, it's still FuboTV since I can one stop everything including the Pac12 Network.

Well, since GK created Hulu, you would think he would be the one to make that deal.

 

[CarolinaBuff]

Deja vu, history repeating itself. All the cliches.

Just like I eluded to in my post above, PAC got burned the first time throwing a Hail Mary. Ironic that the only choice left to MAYBE save themselves now is doubling down and throwing another one.

Yup, when the Pac12N launched the demand was far lower than LS and the presidents imagined. When they didn'tget a deal with DTV very few people were willing to leave DTV for another subscriber just to get P12N. The demand wasn't there than and it's certainly not going to be there now with USC and UCLA gone.

 

[Hidden Fees]

Did you count Jayhawks as a predator or mythical creature or lizard?

Prey.


But great at creating compost.

 

[Da Lama]

and MLB

Two rancid TV sports leagues.

 

[Da Lama]

Soccer is the most watched sport globally. Some college conference being on AppleTV brings football and universities into millions of new living rooms globally will have some impact.

The MLS being on in the US during Europes off season is probably getting watched over there. Apple is believed to have helped bring Messi to the MLS. If Coach Prime turns out to be the hot thing nothing is to stop Apple from getting him to a program in their fold by doubling or tripling his pay. The thing with some of these big tech companies is they have outrageous piles of money on hand compared to the traditional media companies.

NEWSFLASH: No one is watching the MLS anywhere in the rest of the world except for Miami games.

 

[GoBuffs08]

As the most positive possible take on the meeting, this is ominous for the P9.

I wonder if Canzano misinterpreted what his source said? Maybe there is excitement, and maybe they are aligned. The excitement and alignment is multiple Pac schools approaching the Big12 as a package deal

 

[Buffnik]

HOW DARE YOU SAY THIS ISN'T BEAUTIFUL?!?

I don't think the Big 12 or Yormark are all that enthusiastic about UConn but that ESPN highly values that property and is prepared to make that a worthwhile add if other targets the Big 12 prefers don't materialize.

 

[BuffsNYC]

Two rancid TV sports leagues.

I'm wondering what a non-rancid league looks like?

 

[Bison]

 

[Goose]

I'm wondering what a non-rancid league looks like?

 

[Fred 2]

the deal mostly lines us with what we thought and reinforces RG's comments.

i don't think tying up with apple as the market continues to spin toward full streaming is a bad thing.

it was pointed out by someone dozens of pages ago that the pac schools would likely struggle with the uncertainty of budgeting on a deal like this. i did think the top end value would far exceed the b12 but it sounds like that might not be true.

i figured there would be a resolution to the cable payments attached and a transfer of the p12 network.

the deal isn't "that" bad.

given we are not pacific time zone and get more guaranteed money from a traditional deal, i get why we did this.

the fluctuating budget is going to be super hard for cal, way, osu, asu. and maybe new members. uo uw stanford will just figure it out. utah sounds like they are all-in on the pac so they will suck it up too?

if Arizona comes with us, maybe cal as well? they have cash issues. and maybe a stray like asu?

uconn is only beautiful in the eyes of the b12 commish.

No one wants cal except you Bay Area fans. I could care less about Stanford and UConn as well.

 

[Fred 2]

I don't either, but if this for some reason blows up there is potential for this deal to be better. I am just not sure what number of subscribers we would realistically be looking at and what they would be willing to pay.

Nothing, as no one outside of pac nw gives a rats ass about the pac. That’s the problem.

 

[Not Sure]

No one wants cal except you Bay Area fans. I could care less about Stanford and UConn as well.

*couldn’t

 

[hawg1]

Well, it kind of does depending on the details of what was presented as it doesn't sound like Apple put down any guaranteed money to me.

They had to. To make the entire deal incentive based would be suicide.

 

[Bison]

No one wants cal except you Bay Area fans. I could care less about Stanford and UConn as well.

 

[Fred 2]

I wonder if Canzano misinterpreted what his source said? Maybe there is excitement, and maybe they are aligned. The excitement and alignment is multiple Pac schools approaching the Big12 as a package deal

Him and wilner are delusional! The deal is sh** and based on the sun rising from the west. No one is going to pay for Apple tv outside of the nw to watch the pac. Does anyone here think some random guy in Indiana is gonna pay for that? Not a chance!

 

[Goose]

Him and wilner are delusional! The deal is sh** and based on the sun rising from the west. No one is going to pay for Apple tv outside of the nw to watch the pac. Does anyone here think some random guy in Indiana is gonna pay for that? Not a chance!

They're too busy spoiling their kids and Taylor Swift aren't they Fred!

TELL HIM!

 

[SuperD]

I think ESPN is trying to find the balance between its cable/satellite fee bundles with knowing its future is a direct subscriber model.

Given that Disney seems to potentially be positioning ESPN to be sold, we may still end up on Apple streaming by the end of this deal.

 

[Buffnik]

Underrated movie (as was Orgasmo).

 

[Goose]

Underrated movie (as was Orgasmo).

Greatest sports movie of all time and there will be no discussion on this.

Except for Fred. He can talk about it. The rest of you can't.

 

[hawg1]

@Buffnik
You mentioned production costs would be subtracted from base deal yesterday.

Where did you get that info?

Thanks.

 

[Buffnik]

@Buffnik
You mentioned production costs would be subtracted from base deal yesterday.

Where did you get that info?

Thanks.

It was in that mhver person's string of tweets last night. Seems that he has a pretty solid source.

 

[NWD Buff]

Get ready for more PAC out of the box thinking.

 

[hawg1]

It was in that mhver person's string of tweets last night. Seems that he has a pretty solid source.

Thanks. I don’t read it that way, but I may be missing something.

 

[Heywood]

Underrated movie (as was Orgasmo).

Thanks for giving me an idea for my title update