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Rumors? No, just some East Coast dumbshit writer looking for clicks. Hey Kliavkoff - go look at a goddam map. F SMU. See SDSU and UNLV? Then draw a line to the "4 corners" schools. Colorado is a bit of a geographic outlier, but they are a F of a lot close to Las Vegas and San Diego than they are to the East Coast.The Pac 12’s Leadership Needs To Ink A New Media Deal Then Start ACC Merger Talks.
Now Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff goal is to work with Amazon, ESPN, and a few potential mystery partners in the hopes of beating the Big 12 deal done with Fox and ESPN that pays about $31.7 million per school for the next six years.
Oh, one more rant before I get to some serious drinking. Anyone know WTF is up with the Pac-12 network? Have we managed to extricate ourselves from downtown San Fran? Seems as if part of the revenue puzzle, now that we got rid of Larry Scott, is to downsize or maybe just get rid of that G-D albatross.
This is really the idea that makes the most sense for the survival of all 3 conferences. It’s the best way for them to get a true Coast-to-Coast inventory. Without some alignment between these 3, in the next cycle the SEC and Big 10 are going to come for more teams, and then they’ll have the strong coast to coast presence, and it’s over for all 3.
The ACC members are under contract until 2035 or 2036 I believe. Would revising their media rights open them up to poaching of their more desirable members - namely NC,Clemson and possibly Florida State? I wonder if that’s why the talks of a scheduling alliance fizzled.
Ya know, I think what's kind of missing in this conversation is eyes on the TV. Face it, the Pac-12 has lost the butts in seats competition, outside of maybe the mutts and quacks. So what about eyeballs on TV on Saturdays? If everybody and their dog on the West Coast was glued to the set on Saturdays, we'd be in much better shape. But they don't. And our shitty network TV schedule times and Pac-12 network times reflect that.
There’s definitely truth to that, but if the Pac-12 has a media & scheduling deal with the ACC - and to a lesser degree with the Big 12 - it probably bumps us to better time slots just to cater to the other team’s fans. We can maybe piggyback on that to up our total viewership.
Yeah, I disagree. I think it's only a matter of time before the Big 10 tries to grab a couple more teams moving west. That will strengthen their coast-to-coast market and also will mean they can make a western division and fewer midwest teams will have to travel west as often. They're pulling the larger market, bigger draw teams first to maximize the media contract, and then they'll look to step 2.
Well your scenario is not a longshot, it is a fantasy.
What makes you think they can"take" the schools that they want? The behind closed doors hush hush bs sc and ucla pulled isnt likely to be repeated. Future moves will be done in the open
OK, fine. Try to take, then. I can see a slightly higher likelihood that Stanford/Cal turn down the Big 10...but only slightly.
I think SMU is a mistake as a first step. They're too far out of the footprint, and don't bring enough positives to counteract that. They make sense if we're also expecting to get someone else in that region - TCU, Texas Tech, OK State, etc. - but at this point I don't see any reason that any of those teams would come aboard. Basically, we're encouraging SMU to make the same mistake that we keep saying USC/UCLA are making, committing themselves to traveling significantly greater distances for half of their games - and they're doing it from a place with a smaller budget.
The indications are that the Big 12 will wait and see if they can land Arizona first, maybe Colorado second. If Arizona learns that any other PAC school is on the way out, they will move. Not likely they would leave the PAC first. Depends on how squirrely the media deal gets. No one wants to leave the PAC for the Big 12...but...it could happen.
That's the other consideration - which expansion options create a bigger disincentive for the Arizonas, Colorado, and Utah to jump ship? I think adding UNLV does that better than SMU. It's less travel and less movement outside the footprint. There's some argument toward Texas recruiting, but I really don't think SMU improves anyone's ability to recruit Texas. SMU is like the 7th choice in Texas, forget about SMU visitors.
If the news was that big, it would have leaked already.
It is always too soon to type anything that has Larry Scott's name in it. F#ck that guy.
