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"the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices"
Let's face facts - as College Football fans - that there are Programs that are Value far beyond others. Start at the immense Stadium sizes of Michigan (at number1) to Penn State, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Tennessee, LSU, Texas. Add in Nebraska, Florida, Alabama, FSU, Clemson, Notre Dame, Wisconsin ... and I don't know what to do about UCLA/USC or Stanford (because frankly, they don't fill to 100,000 except on rare occasions). Eyeballs? Seats? In the Air & On the Ground. Terms we learned through this B12 conversation.
Of the 64 Power 5 mouths that are getting fed - anywhere from $23 million to (soon) over 40million ... is there a darn good reason why Rutgers, Northwestern, Vandy, BC, Wake, Virginia, Washington State get deserve to get near the starting Point of those current TV contracts. Seemingly locked in via GOR ... or moral suasion. We just heard that the ACC Network GOR takes that commitment out to 2035. I am looking at building ground leases that aren't that long.
Plus ... as we are learning ... the B12 really is not going to be the same post-2024.
Meanwhile you have this imperfect market whereby ESPN (predominantly) and then Fox are looking at the shifting cord cutting/streaming world ... and pondering their future. Yet, you have Amazon, BeIN, Netflix, Twitter, etc etc. Things we cannot even think about coming.
While we labeled the B12 WannaBee contingent as a network of unworthy. I think the reality is there is a National Network of Attractive Programs getting 1/12th of what Kansas State is due.
Conference smonference. There is a sunny opening: You can't continue to think that - UConn, Temple, Army, Navy, Cincinnati, East Carolina, USF, UCF, Memphis, Tulane, Houston, SMU, Tulsa, Colorado State, Air Force, BYU, Boise State, UNLV, San Diego State - is worth 1/12th what the lower legs of the P5 are getting and 1/20th what Rutgers is getting. I think that is why the AAC only signed for 7 years.
Conference Realignment? My debate of common sense:
1. I LOVE that my University is now presented repeatedly as a Top 20 Public. And a Top 60 National. However, I do not believe - when the real grind happens - that Academic prestige plays into what may happen. Clemson's capability to bring eyeballs or raise ticket prices > BC or Duke or Northwestern. At some point, the MARKET leverage that a Texas or a Notre Dame or a Michigan brings will force some strange changes to the Model.
2. You can't lock out a UCF ... or other newby fast growing market/University forever. When Houston is growing 12% over the last 5 years and WV doesn't grow at all, would immense market forces, does that make sense to have this structure in conferences?
3. They say it is strictly about FOOTBALL. With what we are looking at with Concussions & parent's concerns ... is that forever? What are you watching from mid January to Sept? And greater Female audience? And Soccer increasingly building internationally.
4. Fair Democracy. Someone brought up the collapse and total regeneration of what used to be the Pacific Coast Conference (into what became the Pac 8 then the Pac10 then the Pac12). Pushing out Idaho & Montana ... but also Oregon & Oregon State. Being from the Big East ... ahem ... WE can say that the scism of these Conferences aren't seen from our birdseye Fan perspective. Look at the B12. Universities are going to play fair together in a sandbox ... even as greater lucrative market forces come into play? Or then ... how will the next Baylor/Louisville massive scandal sex scam play at a ... Stanford or some other prestige place.
UConn is in bigtime football. Our immediate challenge - even though those amongst us know that the 2016 schedule is probably as challenging as 2005 - is how to fill Rentschler. As Calhoun said so well, we are used to Brand X at UConn (Syracuse, Pitt, Georgetown) and our Fanbase hasn't done well with the next tier AAC. Thinking of rolling back to Big East basketball ... is like thinking you need to answer your home phone.
Let's face facts - as College Football fans - that there are Programs that are Value far beyond others. Start at the immense Stadium sizes of Michigan (at number1) to Penn State, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Tennessee, LSU, Texas. Add in Nebraska, Florida, Alabama, FSU, Clemson, Notre Dame, Wisconsin ... and I don't know what to do about UCLA/USC or Stanford (because frankly, they don't fill to 100,000 except on rare occasions). Eyeballs? Seats? In the Air & On the Ground. Terms we learned through this B12 conversation.
Of the 64 Power 5 mouths that are getting fed - anywhere from $23 million to (soon) over 40million ... is there a darn good reason why Rutgers, Northwestern, Vandy, BC, Wake, Virginia, Washington State get deserve to get near the starting Point of those current TV contracts. Seemingly locked in via GOR ... or moral suasion. We just heard that the ACC Network GOR takes that commitment out to 2035. I am looking at building ground leases that aren't that long.
Plus ... as we are learning ... the B12 really is not going to be the same post-2024.
Meanwhile you have this imperfect market whereby ESPN (predominantly) and then Fox are looking at the shifting cord cutting/streaming world ... and pondering their future. Yet, you have Amazon, BeIN, Netflix, Twitter, etc etc. Things we cannot even think about coming.
While we labeled the B12 WannaBee contingent as a network of unworthy. I think the reality is there is a National Network of Attractive Programs getting 1/12th of what Kansas State is due.
Conference smonference. There is a sunny opening: You can't continue to think that - UConn, Temple, Army, Navy, Cincinnati, East Carolina, USF, UCF, Memphis, Tulane, Houston, SMU, Tulsa, Colorado State, Air Force, BYU, Boise State, UNLV, San Diego State - is worth 1/12th what the lower legs of the P5 are getting and 1/20th what Rutgers is getting. I think that is why the AAC only signed for 7 years.
Conference Realignment? My debate of common sense:
1. I LOVE that my University is now presented repeatedly as a Top 20 Public. And a Top 60 National. However, I do not believe - when the real grind happens - that Academic prestige plays into what may happen. Clemson's capability to bring eyeballs or raise ticket prices > BC or Duke or Northwestern. At some point, the MARKET leverage that a Texas or a Notre Dame or a Michigan brings will force some strange changes to the Model.
2. You can't lock out a UCF ... or other newby fast growing market/University forever. When Houston is growing 12% over the last 5 years and WV doesn't grow at all, would immense market forces, does that make sense to have this structure in conferences?
3. They say it is strictly about FOOTBALL. With what we are looking at with Concussions & parent's concerns ... is that forever? What are you watching from mid January to Sept? And greater Female audience? And Soccer increasingly building internationally.
4. Fair Democracy. Someone brought up the collapse and total regeneration of what used to be the Pacific Coast Conference (into what became the Pac 8 then the Pac10 then the Pac12). Pushing out Idaho & Montana ... but also Oregon & Oregon State. Being from the Big East ... ahem ... WE can say that the scism of these Conferences aren't seen from our birdseye Fan perspective. Look at the B12. Universities are going to play fair together in a sandbox ... even as greater lucrative market forces come into play? Or then ... how will the next Baylor/Louisville massive scandal sex scam play at a ... Stanford or some other prestige place.
UConn is in bigtime football. Our immediate challenge - even though those amongst us know that the 2016 schedule is probably as challenging as 2005 - is how to fill Rentschler. As Calhoun said so well, we are used to Brand X at UConn (Syracuse, Pitt, Georgetown) and our Fanbase hasn't done well with the next tier AAC. Thinking of rolling back to Big East basketball ... is like thinking you need to answer your home phone.