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Official realignment thread - SEC formally invites OU and Texas to join the conference in 2025

Colorado should and better find a nice landing spot in all this! AAU school within a major TV Market with a National Championship. Also having a legit Basketball team is very helpful. I am not excited about a Big 10 spot, but if that is what it takes, that is what it takes to stay relevant. I think that Oregon State, Washington State, and Arizona State are screwed and will probably just need to move down to the league with New Mexico and others like that. Also would just hate to see Utah and Arizona find a home.
 
4BienemyTDs said:
Colorado should and better find a nice landing spot in all this! AAU school within a major TV Market with a National Championship. Also having a legit Basketball team is very helpful. I am not excited about a Big 10 spot, but if that is what it takes, that is what it takes to stay relevant. I think that Oregon State, Washington State, and Arizona State are screwed and will probably just need to move down to the league with New Mexico and others like that. Also would just hate to see Utah and Arizona find a home.
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I fear that if ASU is homeless that the SEC will gobble them up. Huge enrollment in a massive market. Gets away with crazy high student fees even commuter students have to pay toward the AD. Willing to look the other way with coaching/recruiting practices. Really should be a top program in all sports.
 
Buffnik said:
I fear that if ASU is homeless that the SEC will gobble them up. Huge enrollment in a massive market. Gets away with crazy high student fees even commuter students have to pay toward the AD. Willing to look the other way with coaching/recruiting practices. Really should be a top program in all sports.
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Will the new World Order for College Football be clean, or be cutthroat? That would factor into it with someone like ASU, they would fit better in the American?
 
Also, how can the NIL have anything to do with the Schools? It seems that the Schools cannot even mention or assist with NIL.
 
SuperD said:
There are some tweets out there from some of the less credible realignment obsessives claiming sources that ESPN was trying to broker deals for the remaining schools to the other leagues, but not involving the P12 basically WVU/OSU to the ACC, ISU/KU to the B1G, and TTU/TCU/Baylor/KSU to the AAC, supposedly with a "promise" of an automatic CFB playoff spot to the AAC (who's rights ESPN also owns), and that one of the AAC group is one of the schools that snitched.

Seems pretty clear the AAC is the school ESPN was trying broker a deal for, the rest of it seems a bit far fetched. How is this not contractual interference? You destroy a league that a competitor shares rights with and then move over half the schools to leagues where you control sole rights, and lower your overall costs with a reduced payout to the majority of the schools, kill the LHN money pit, screw your competitor / broadcast partner out of major tent pole content, and get the schools getting screwed to forgo significant money's owed for a chance at a crappy life raft in a lesser league.
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Is ESPN a monopoly? Could we get a trust buster? if everything is about ESPNs bottom line theyll keep doing this and college football is doomed.
 
4BienemyTDs said:
Also, how can the NIL have anything to do with the Schools? It seems that the Schools cannot even mention or assist with NIL.
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The highly effective and efficient investigators from the NCAA are going to enforce this rule. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

There is already plenty of evidence out there about payoffs, cars, homes, bags of cash, etc. under the old system when kids weren't supposed to get anything. You think the schools won't figure out ways to coordinate the money?

Almost impossible to enforce if they had their act together, they don't.

Bama is going to have it's money people lined up, Texas and Oklahoma the same. Clemson, Ohio State, and on and on.

Might as well protect the kids by getting them agents.
 
I’ll admit I’m not familiar with the workings of media contracts, but logically, I would think a combination of CBS, NBC, Fox and P12 net could provide as much, if not more revenue to a 32 team conference that includes ND than ESPN could provide the SEC.
 
Not Sure said:
I’ll admit I’m not familiar with the workings of media contracts, but logically, I would think a combination of CBS, NBC, Fox and P12 net could provide as much, if not more revenue to a 32 team conference that includes ND than ESPN could provide the SEC.
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Probably, but that’s double the amount of teams than what are in the SEC so it would have to be double the revenue ESPN sends to SEC so the revenue per school is on the same level
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Probably, but that’s double the amount of teams than what are in the SEC so it would have to be double the revenue ESPN sends to SEC so the revenue per school is on the same level
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That would also require fox and other networks to bid on it, similar to the fox, cbs bid in the nfl.
 
onealcd said:
That would also require fox and other networks to bid on it, similar to the fox, cbs bid in the nfl.
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I think in a 32 team league that includes the Pac 12, B1G, ND and 5 other programs, there would be plenty of content for multiple networks to have large distribution deals. That's the only way they'd be able to double up on the SEC/ESPN deal
 
Wouldn't it be hilarious if in 2025 Fox outbid ESPN for the SEC media rights? ESPN does the heavy back channel lifting for nothing. It won't happen, but it would be hilarious.
 
DeNiro said:
Wouldn't it be hilarious if in 2025 Fox outbid ESPN for the SEC media rights? ESPN does the heavy back channel lifting for nothing. It won't happen, but it would be hilarious.
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Only if the new ESPN-SEC deal didn't run until 2034. And yes if ESPN got screwed out, that would be hilarious.
 
Buffnik said:
ESPN needs the votes on changing the CFP before the current contract expires. Apparently, that causes it to auto-extend as an ESPN property instead of being opened up for bidding in a few years.
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NCAA would be insane not to get open bidding on the playoff.
 
Listening to Yahoo CFB podcast and they mentioned that this move may actually save Fox some money with regard to the upcoming B1G and P12 if ESPN isn't a big player due to limited broadcast windows, though they did mention that the P12 apparently gets a bit of a premium for the night slots because there just aren't many options for that content. The B1G's and and the P12's best hope for big payday might be if one of the major content streamers like Netflix, Amazon, or Apple decides their next growth platform will be live sports, it won't be Hulu since that is just another Mouse platform now.
 
SuperD said:
Listening to Yahoo CFB podcast and they mentioned that this move may actually save Fox some money with regard to the upcoming B1G and P12 if ESPN isn't a big player due to limited broadcast windows, though they did mention that the P12 apparently gets a bit of a premium for the night slots because there just aren't many options for that content. The B1G's and and the P12's best hope for big payday might be if one of the major content streamers like Netflix, Amazon, or Apple decides their next growth platform will be live sports, it won't be Hulu since that is just another Mouse platform now.
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Espn just lost inventory too though.
 
Yep this is my fear if this B1G raid on the P12 has legs. California politics won't let any of the Cali schools get left behind and then we're one of the schools left out if Oregon and UW are both in.





 
Texas did not only destroy another conference. Texas has destroyed CFB as we know it.

This is going to be a painful process for all but the elite of the elite...
 
SuperD said:
Yep this is my fear if this B1G raid on the P12 has legs. California politics won't let any of the Cali schools get left behind and then we're one of the schools left out if Oregon and UW are both in.





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Again that guy doesn’t know ****. Used to follow him and he has spouted bull**** since the original realignment and the hoax that was the big 12 expansion back in 2017.
 
Liver said:
Also the nfl has pretty much equal revenue sharing. It works and lifts all boats and it is a proven model. I know it is probably a pipe dream but this would be the ultimate **** you to the sec
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The NFL also has measures (like the draft and the salary cap) to promote parity among the teams.
 
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