Washington Post article on Commish Pay

[Pudge]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html?wpisrc=nl_draw

So ... It's just about Football? Just get the BEST Football program possible.

I've never thought that.

This article gives you a glimpse at what is behind the curtain. Think about the Pac 12 HQ & staffing in San Francisco. The huge rise in Pay; Staff; and components that come from a Network. And these guys building huge homes.

I don't think the B12 or ACC can go without a College TV Network. We'd go, at that point, to the P3. And there would be a retrenchment amongst the two outliers & various Universities.

And then ... The obvious point is how this period has totally shaken up college sports. And more litigation is coming.

 

[Dooley]

There is definitely a race between the B12 and ACC to launch a network first. B12 expansion should focus entirely on what would be best for a network launch. It will be VERY hard for them to justify passing on UConn. If the ACC can add us and secure the northeast, that all but guarantees that they will win the network race and spell the end of the B12. Simply put, the winner of the network race gets to plan for a long term future. The loser gets to plan for a Big East apocalypse.

 

[FDNY99]

There is definitely a race between the B12 and ACC to launch a network first. B12 expansion should focus entirely on what would be best for a network launch. It will be VERY hard for them to justify passing on UConn. If the ACC can add us and secure the northeast, that all but guarantees that they will win the network race and spell the end of the B12. Simply put, the winner of the network race gets to plan for a long term future. The loser gets to plan for a Big East apocalypse.

If the B-12 can get a network off the ground the ACC will be on the outside looking in $$ wise. The issue the ACC will continue to have is Raycom owning their 2nd tier rights. The fact remains ESPN isn't going to pay Raycom for the rights after producing the programming then paying the ACC again to put it on their own network.

 

[Pudge]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/opinion/joe-nocera-playing-college-moneyball.html?referer=

And more fun ...

Joe Nocera has gone from Op-Ed to Sports at the NYT. Now columnist on College Sports Business.

He's got a proposal on how to totally restructure Revenue Sports. And a bunch of musings of the future litigation & future representation of college athletes.

Reading all the way to the end, you conclude that many pieces of the Sports in college are out of balance.