Interesting notes from Canzano's radio show today (Moos was on)...

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And the former Fox Sports guy (Thompson).

Basically, it seems here is where we are at:
1. No other Pac-12 teams make sense for Big-10 TV expansion. John said 70M per school is the number. UCLA and USC were the only 2 that brought that value.
2. The ND to Big-10 "offer" per a caller is basically more informal. Join us when/if you want, the door is open. No timetable assigned.
3. The ACC's tv's are extremely attractive. The markets they bring include New York (Syracuse), DC (V-Tech), Pennsylvania (Pitt), Boston (BC)...etc. are very attractive.
4. The ACC's media grants extent through 2036. Which is why "loose" affiliation is the option. Inferred if the ACC were to open things up, you could have schools bolt.
5. Moos basically said what's on the other sites, Pac-12 should go after Big-12 in some kind of merger, also chatted about the tough schedule in the Big-10, etc. (Nothing earth shattering).

I get the sense that given #1, the Pac-12 is now the hunter. Oregon and UW don't want to be second fiddle. Kind of inferred was maybe we end up with a Big-3. SEC. Big10. PAC/ACC.

Also, per Thompson, Pac-12 network (which I've been saying for years) is likely to be 1 feed, JV and operating by someone with the "chops" (his words) to run a network. My guess is ESPN.

Having the ESPN Pac-12 network, with a bundle of the SEC and ACC networks, might drive a little more cash to us. (Think ESPN college bundle).

Dropping (which is what is being suggested) out of conference games with the Big-10 and replacing them with the ACC gets ESPN the inventory of pretty good national match-ups. ESPN could also pair the Pac-12 and ACC with the SEC on various "kick off games, etc."

Where does this go? My sense is we get enough TVs back into the Pac-12 is priority #1. Likely from the Big-12 and Mountain West. Look at the media markets and TVs in the Big-12 to see where this might go.

 

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A insider Notre Dame Source according to Sports Illustrated says that Notre Dame doesn't want to go to Big 10 and wants to stay independent.

COMBINED with how a WA legislator named Drew Stokesbary, said that he and Michael Baumgartner, are pushing, expediting FAST, QUICK, ETC, LEGISLATION, that ties UW/WA state together, forbids UW from leaving WSU behind, that UW/WSU has to be a PACKAGED deal either in Pac 12, Big 10, Big 12, Merger between Pac 12/Big 12, Merger between Pac 12/ACC, MWC, etc.

Drew Stokesbary has TOLD UW/WSU presidents, Chancellor's, AD's, Board of Regents, Coaches, etc, and probably has threatened the President's/AD's/Board of Regents, that they had better comply, not try to do things, circumvent things, before the legislation passed, and that if they do that, they will lose all public tax dollars, funding, will be FIRED, etc.

That and what Big 10 has said that they not interested and only interested in Oregon/UW, IF IF ND joins Big 10, and since ND said they won't join Big 10, and since UW/Oregon said they are staying put, and since the Big 12 said they won't raid Big 12, at least for now, and since the rest of the remaining Pac 12 teams said they staying put, and since the Pac 12 said they extremely aggressively will expand, an or merge, and said that a new media deal worth about 300 million, about 30 million a Pac 12 team per year, is being finalized.

Because of all that combined together.

Pac 12 will probably get Iowa St, TCU, Texas Tech, from Big 12, and BSU, UNLV, SDSU, Fresno State, Airforce, to go with Oregon, UW, Stanford, Utah, Cal, Arizona, ASU, Colorado, WSU, Ore St, to become the Pac 18, and then get Rosebowl to renew with Pac 18, and then finalize 300 Mill media deal, then later merge with either Big 12 or ACC.