Latest expansion rumor…

[Carm]

DM from the guy I screenshotted elaborates on the economic impact of the addition of UO and UW for current B1G members. In essence, current members could at best hope to break even by adding them. In that case, why do it?

 

[Irv]

DM from the guy I screenshotted elaborates on the economic impact of the addition of UO and UW for current B1G members. In essence, current members could at best hope to break even by adding them. In that case, why do it?

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What I don’t understand about this is that the offer to them was basically a half share. Is he saying that even at paying them half a share, they cause everybody to lose money? If that’s really the case than those schools anre approaching zero value (which seems hard to believe, but I guess, maybe?)

And even worse for them, 5 years on streaming only will just decrease exposure and relevance.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

What I don’t understand about this is that the offer to them was basically a half share. Is he saying that even at paying them half a share, they cause everybody to lose money? If that’s really the case than those schools anre approaching zero value (which seems hard to believe, but I guess, maybe?)

And even worse for them, 5 years on streaming only will just decrease exposure and relevance.

I'm wondering if a certain former commissioner neglected to put a clause in the new media contracts to automatically increase the payment if teams are added

 

[Alum-Ni]

Probably why FSU is all of a sudden serious about trying to leave the ACC......they are working to raise a ton of cash

 

[Irv]

I am just sitting here marveling that late last night, UW and Ore were on the precipice of finally getting their magic ticket and somehow engineered themselves out of it and back into a conference tv deal that wasn’t good enough for Colorado.

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

Probably why FSU is all of a sudden serious about trying to leave the ACC......they are working to raise a ton of cash

PE-owned college football is bleak

 

[Alcaus]

Probably why FSU is all of a sudden serious about trying to leave the ACC......they are working to raise a ton of cash

Pretty sure FSU would need to pay around half a billion to exit the ACC. $120m exit fee, $30m per year left on the GOR deal.

Would be the next step in the absolute desecration of college sports to have a public university pay ACC/ESPN $500m in PE cash.

 

[Carm]

What I don’t understand about this is that the offer to them was basically a half share. Is he saying that even at paying them half a share, they cause everybody to lose money? If that’s really the case than those schools anre approaching zero value (which seems hard to believe, but I guess, maybe?)

And even worse for them, 5 years on streaming only will just decrease exposure and relevance.

I think he is saying under the contract Fox pays more but to get to a half share each school needs to take a $2m haircut to add to the Fox increment. That says that Fox is paying a 25% share approximately

 

[Irv]

I am just sitting here marveling that late last night, UW and Ore were on the precipice of finally getting their magic ticket and somehow engineered themselves out of it and back into a conference tv deal that wasn’t good enough for Colorado.

Of course, maybe they are brilliant.

 

[Carm]

she needs to stop getting info from Sean

 

[Irv]

Can absolutely believe a change of heart by those schools, but cannot buy that B1G was willing to offer any significant addition of money. The conference in no way needs them now, and they would still be available after end of the new PAC deal.

Seems more likely that they wanted to see how much the rest of the PAC would be willing to pay to keep them vs what B1G was offering (and considering costa of travel etc).

It’s just very hard to see presidents being so anxious about having Oregon in the conference that they would throw money at them, but who knows. Maybe Phil Knight just told the AD to get its shit together.

 

[Carm]

Sounds like Fox ponied up money to me and/or a Cal Stanford concession

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Shocking that it turns out that the breaking the Grant Of Rights problem was an economic one the whole time instead of some magic legal bullet or cockamamie conference dissolution scheme

 

[22*43*51]

 

[Alcaus]

 

[Alum-Ni]

The reporting on Oregon and Washington is certainly back and forth

 

[Alum-Ni]

PE-owned college football is bleak

If PE gets involved, then at some point they will just fund their own "conference" and just invite all the top brands into one league, IMO.

 

[Mavsker]

 

[Kazman5k]

This has to be taking years off of Oregon fans lives

 

[Ripping Lips]

This has to be taking years off of Oregon fans lives

Fuck Oregon & their Nike $$$. I hope they are left in the PAC 12 and wither into Oregon State.