Waquoit
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Sounds like he's on our side!The only thing missing from this cluster-F was Rick Pitino...
Sounds like he's on our side!The only thing missing from this cluster-F was Rick Pitino...
They were negotiating. Apple upped their offer $2M per school. I am guessing they didn't see FOX pull the Oregon and Washington card at the last sec to sink the Apple deal. Stuff like this happens, and it is part of the negotiation for many businesses. These conference realignments are pretty much like cutthroat corporate negotiations. Apple simply got played this time. I am sure they will be more prepared next time.They weren't so savvy as to realize their lowball non-linear offer would cause the destruction of their intended target, were they?
Amazon's Prime Video is the 2nd largest streaming service by subscribers at over 175 million subs (people who actually watch PV) in both US and international. And, Amazon has Thursday night NFL football starting this year and they are paying $1 billion per year for the privilege. And, they have MLB and NBA basketball as well as other sports.
As of now, Amazon is a bigger threat to FOX and ESPN than Apple.
Endowments can't be used on Sports. Whatever donated money goes to sports is already included in fundraising revenues.
Cal has a bad debt profile
Lol.. like they care or have the power to stop it. The only thing stopping this train is some kind of order from the congress.
Dang that's brutal. This conference realignment stuff is really getting out of hand. I wonder how many ppl will just get sick of it and say screw college sports or, eventually get bored of it. Not everyone in these inflated conferences can win. What happens when Texas or usc have .500 seasons? Or worse. At this point I hope the descion makers completely fumble this whole scheme.
To be clear, the catholic schools left the AAC and didn’t invite UConn. This after years of deprioritizing football which led to the plundering of the BE. UConn owes nothing to those schools and has little in common w them.The Big East threw UConn a lifeline, and your hoops program has absolutely thrived in what is becoming an awesome basketball conference with some of the best coaches in the country. UConn should stay where it is. The grass is not always greener. …
Lol.. like they care or have the power to stop it. The only thing stopping this train is some kind of order from the congress.
To be clear, the catholic schools left the AAC and didn’t invite UConn.
Couldn’t agree more. I don’t understand it and maybe I never will but that seems to be the general consensus from the decision makers.We pretty clearly have zero value to any conference. At least now I can stop paying attention to realignment again.
FOX didn't want to pay us extra because they had already got us in the Big East. ESPN didn't want us in the B12 because it might damage the precious ACC media property they got on the cheap. I don't think these decisions were entirely up to the presidents of schools.We pretty clearly have zero value to any conference. At least now I can stop paying attention to realignment again.
They have to have 7 home football games per year for budgetary reasons. If you played a 10 conference game schedule out of 12, you have 5 conference home games and 2 out of conference games. I guess they could play 2 G5 and or FCS home games per year to get to 7, but is that what the media companies want and how does that add value to the media contract?
Big 12 played us man...its over over
We were team X+1 in the X team bids long before Yormark did anything.UConn was team 17 when the Big 12 stopped at 16. UConn will be team 19 when they stop at 18. UConn will be team 21 when they stop at 20.
Yormark played us.
I don't understand this logic though. FOX and ESPN both just agreed to pay more money to these PAC schools by moving them into the Big 12 and Big 10 when they could have had them for a helluva lot cheaper had they stayed together. And now ESPN is panicking that they have no west coast inventory so they're going to shell out money for Stanford and Cal?Fox was never going to let the Big12 take UConn. Fox gets UConn for pennies in the BE.
Why would Fox pay UConn 8x more --- all while destroying the amazing Big East content they have?
It was never going to happen, no matter what Yormack wanted
Yep, and for the legacy sport networks I'm sure they want both of them out, this is about 5 years old and I posted it before from the OU site.Amazon's Prime Video is the 2nd largest streaming service by subscribers at over 175 million subs (people who actually watch PV) in both US and international. And, Amazon has Thursday night NFL football starting this year and they are paying $1 billion per year for the privilege. And, they have MLB and NBA basketball as well as other sports.
As of now, Amazon is a bigger threat to FOX and ESPN than Apple.
Or Stanford and Cal are putting this out to “encourage” The Big10 and Fox to offer them. Worked with Oregon and Washington so it might work with them.acc adding Stanford and Cal either means, they're really stupid and think trips from california to syracuse are gonna provide anything of quality, or adding Cal and Stanford to entice Notre Dame with a rival to finally join full time which isnt happening lol