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Interesting thought but the budget criteria needs to be dependent on whether they have football. A program with a lower level football team (FCS or lower) is still going to need to have a higher budget due to the high costs of football.

It'll be interesting to see who this 3rd party is and assuming it's a streamer -- which one. Fox doesn't have a sports streaming service. Apple hasn't been overly successful. Peacock is NBC owned and probably feels good about their content with Big 10. Might ESPN be in play for those tier 3...

They have 15, they'll probably stand pat at 14.

Let's be real if any team is the DePaul of the Big 12 it's UCF.

I see GT having value over Louisville, WF, BC, Cuse. But probably not Pitt or Duke.

The difference is at the bottom. Depaul and Georgetown are dreadful by ratings.

Have you seen who's in the AAC now?

Damn is this a high school field?

SMU is so valuable because of the Dallas market. Right? Right? Oh... oops: Only 18,000 people watched their game. Yikes.

Jay Gatsby. He could buy UConn into any conference.

I'll grant that the ACC has weakness at the bottom, but the Big 12 is pretty damn balanced across the board. I agree that there's no way it's going to drop to 8 teams now that everyone is getting used to 12. I think the fight will be 5+7 with no automatic bids vs 5+7 with 4 power conference...

Disney's problems have little to do with ESPN. Yes revenue is declining but it is still profitable. Disney+ is what is killing them, their content creation is way too expensive for the return which is why they are slashing a ton of shows including marvel and others. Once the ESPN channels go...

Vetting does not equal inviting. Many teams have been vetted by many conferences over the years.

The Pac-9 (8) had no shot of hitting 1.7MM subscriptions and they wanted linear exposure. I think it's pretty simple. When you consider the MLS has under 1MM subscribers with 29 teams in major cities (and even a spike due to Messi) they are nowhere near 1.7MM. And they have a lot of free...

So the ACC is going to pay $20MM a year just for UConn basketball? Talk about dreaming...

I think it this point it's a 3 way race for #16 in the Big 12. If the Big 10 decides to go Oregon / Washington - it's UConn or Utah for #16. If they decide to go Washington / Stanford -- it's Oregon for #16. Pray for Oregon / Washington and for BYU or others opposing Utah.

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Oregon and Washington are very interesting cases. All the so-called experts out there say the B1G can't really expand anymore because the networks don't have enough money to pay those extra teams. This is somewhat supported by the fact the Pac 12 (9) can't even get a semi-decent deal. Does...

By this metric Xavier has never played a meaningful basketball game.

The all-time series is 51-39 Cincinnati but ok. Lots of people have short memories I guess.

You're delirious right? Cincinnati is far better in hoops than Xavier (never made a final four - Cincinnati has 6 including 2 titles) and Dayton (18 tourneys, 1 final four.)

I think the Big 12s preferences are probably something like this: 1) Oregon 2) Washington 3) Arizona 4) UConn 5) Arizona State 6) Stanford 7) Utah With 3 spots open. Stanford will say no anyways so that can be removed. Feels like Washington is a no as well. Oregon is a maybe. But Oregon +...

If Sheer is right hopefully it's Colorado + mystery team and Arizona + UConn.

The Arizona admin on the 24/7 site thinks it's Washington. EDIT: He just said that was a typo and meant NOT washington. Jason Sheer is speculating that it's Oregon but he doesn't know for sure.

There's one conference in CFB that matters if we're being real. Outside of two teams OSU/Clemson the SEC has won all the Nattys. These teams have made the championship game ever since they went to a playoff: Oregon TCU LSU OSU (2) Georgia (3) Clemson (4) Alabama (6) So adding up that's 10...

It doesn't even make sense. How can they be 12 votes short if there's 12 total votes? If everyone is voting no, then why would anyone bring them up to a vote? Lunacy.

Real Cincy fans are on the 24/7 site. CSNBBS is a cesspool in general.

Couple points: 1) Iger specifically called out the value of sports programming. If they divest I see them divesting all the networks that aren't in the ESPN/ABC family. They would sell off all the FX channels, National Geographic, etc type channels. Those are the ones that aren't bringing...

This guy has been all over the map with predictions. Not seeing he's right or wrong here, just that's he's said a lot of untrue crap.

Cubs: 20 Yankees: 20 BC : 20 Pitt: 20 Syracuse: 20

If they "thrive" on Apple TV will anyone know they're thriving? Honest question. Fox and ESPN aren't going to focus on them in their network shows or their advertising.

Now Pac-12 mouthpiece is touting Memphis because he's trying protect his precious Pac-12. What a joke. Memphis is not close to additive to Big 12.

I agree 100%. Houston was by far the least valuable new addition despite their really strong basketball program (right now.)

UConn + Arizona would be the best play for basketball. But from reading what Arizona has been saying they are definitely not leaving the Pac 12 first.

Welcome to the Pac-12 on CW (1 or 2 games a week sublicensed from Apple.)