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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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3 pods of 6
I guess that's my weekend homework - to figure out how the hell balanced scheduling happens in an 18-team conference. Maybe 1 paired/ protected rival and play the other 16 every 2/4 years?
Play 3 new teams from another pod each year?
So all you folks lamenting the loss of P12 culture now have a lifeline. Roadies to Corvallis, Pullman, Tempe, Tucson and SLC. Cultural fit out the Wazzu. Of course, you don't get the Bay Area or L.A., but L.A. already dumped you. But hurrah for the best of both worlds. A stable conference (for now), cash money on the table, truck stops, half of the previously mentioned cultural fit, more Mormons, a H-Town to boot.
It's good to be a Buff.
It's good to be a Buff.
OSU, WSU, UU, BYU, UA, ASU
CU, KU, KSU, OSU, TTU, TCU
BU, UH, ISU, WVU, UC, UCF
Gross. These pods do not work nearly as well.
How about 9 team divisions?
7 games against your division + a home and home against the other?
Or just play every team in your division and a winner take all CCG. Might be kind of a cool set up, and in theory, we could see two undefeated teams face off in the CCG.
LOL @ USC
Question for Nik, with a PAC2, what kind of pod/scheduling setup do you think they will go with?
KU/KSU suck, but a guaranteed game in Texas every year is good
You want to be able to sell recruits the ability to play a game in front of family and friends. So cutting ourselves off from the best recruiting grounds in the south/east every year would not be in our best interest
I am pretty sure ESPN also doesn't want to pay big money to any ACC or B12 school. Get anyone that can be a threat
Nothing says we need to create divisions geographically…..but I get your point. Tricky problem to solve for sure.
The divisions ultimately don't matter for anything except for ease of scheduling and reductions in overall travel costs.
+complaints of favorable/unfavorable scheduling by the league.
SerenityBuff
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Is this the same ESPN that declined to bid on Pac12 media rights, but now seems interested in most of the conference joining their media deal with the Big12? None of this makes sense to me anymore.
As a side note, this season in the PAC is going to be super awkward.
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If that is total, not just their part of media rights, they going in real cheap.
B12 is expected to have total payouts close to 50 million by the end of their new media deal.
Lol
Especially since the lowly Colorado Buffaloes will stand as the final PAC12 Champs in recorded history
So it’s going to take 3 years for Oregon and Washington to make in the B1G what CU is making in the Big 12, and their deficit to Indiana and Rutgers is around $40m/year.
I guess a seat at the big table has some value but man, spending some years dominating the Big 12 sounds better than going 6-6 in the B1G
I guess a seat at the big table has some value but man, spending some years dominating the Big 12 sounds better than going 6-6 in the B1G
Well, the Pac probably wanted something at least on par with the B12 deal, or 31 mill x 10= 310,000,000/yr. ESPN, theoretically, is getting west coast content made up of half the P12 for $162,000,000. (31.7 to CU and UA, 25 to UU, OSU, ASU and WSU). They aren't getting Cal, Stanford, UO or UW but nobody is watching them anyway so maybe they think getting late night CFB slots filled for $163M is good enough, who knows? Maybe there isn't any real qualitative difference which P12 team is playing late if it isn't SC or UCLA.
EDIT: And it is going to be weird in the P12. If CU was the last to go I was concerned we would see some favortism, but now with pretty much everybody going, we just have to deal with generalized crappy P-12 officiating.
Why would ESPN care when they didn’t care enough to bid on P12 but now they want OSU and WSU. I could maybe see a point if they want to throw Cal a lifeline to stay in California. Were they just thinking they could roll the dice and pick the P12 up on the cheap and didn’t think it would actually fall apart?
Would you prefer CU in the B1G with this deal?