Imagine being this upset at a television network. We suck at football and not enough people watch us play to move the needle in TV contract negotiations. That’s why we got left out.
my first thought after reading the article was that NBC paying for "shoulder programming" means they are giving ND a sweet new deal so they can stay independent.
Rust Belt vs climate desert belt?
This has to be a concern, not only in terms of what the dollars will be, but also what broadcast windows will be available.
Or will it stick the BE on FS2 and leave Fox and FS1 for the B1G?
They've always been watching, but left ESPN alone during the double-digit growth years, when ESPN was 2% of the overhead and responsible for 30+% of the profit for the entire company. The whole idea was always to own content.
ESPN dictated the terms of their what was suppose to be the Big 8 - Southwest Conference merger . Elimating Houston, SMU, TCU and Rice .Here is the next Bombshell: If true, and it certainly looks like it is, this is a MONSTER SHOT across ESPN's bow:
Big Ten on verge of $1 billion in TV deals that will exclude ESPN
The Big Ten is on the cusp of television deals that are expected to pay it in excess of $1 billion and create a college football triple-header featuring Fox, CBS and NBC, The Post has confirmed.nypost.com
On the one hand, it is another step down the inevitable path that is obliterating the college sports landscape as we have known it, and that is mostly sad.
That having been said. I can not help but LOVE, LOVE, LOVE when ESPN takes these much-deserved kicks to the groin. Screw those self-righteous bastards, particularly since they started college sports down this path with their underhanded, back room deals to ruin the Big East and continually leave us out the cold, even after the millions upon millions in subsidies they have received from the state of Connecticut and its taxpayers (of which I used to be one of you).
What you sew so shall you reap boys. How's it feel to taste some of your own medicine ESPN???? Couldn't have happened to a more insufferable group of elitist D-bags (upper management and some of the on-air talent, not the rank-and-file, by and large). They have earned every single gut punch, curb stomp and kick to the groin that they ever receive.
If nothing else, this ensures that ESPN will be unable to monopolize both of the 2 major conferences going forward (which would have been even more disastrous for college sports in general). It will be really interesting to see how the pieces fall after this, as the battle lines are becoming clearly drawn.
Kinda screws up some CT jobs.Here is the next Bombshell: If true, and it certainly looks like it is, this is a MONSTER SHOT across ESPN's bow:
Big Ten on verge of $1 billion in TV deals that will exclude ESPN
The Big Ten is on the cusp of television deals that are expected to pay it in excess of $1 billion and create a college football triple-header featuring Fox, CBS and NBC, The Post has confirmed.
On the one hand, it is another step down the inevitable path that is obliterating the college sports landscape as we have known it, and that is mostly sad.
That having been said. I can not help but LOVE, LOVE, LOVE when ESPN takes these much-deserved kicks to the groin. Screw those self-righteous bastards, particularly since they started college sports down this path with their underhanded, back room deals to ruin the Big East and continually leave us out the cold, even after the millions upon millions in subsidies they have received from the state of Connecticut and its taxpayers (of which I used to be one of you).
What you sew so shall you reap boys. How's it feel to taste some of your own medicine ESPN???? Couldn't have happened to a more insufferable group of elitist D-bags (upper management and some of the on-air talent, not the rank-and-file, by and large). They have earned every single gut punch, curb stomp and kick to the groin that they ever receive.
If nothing else, this ensures that ESPN will be unable to monopolize both of the 2 major conferences going forward (which would have been even more disastrous for college sports in general). It will be really interesting to see how the pieces fall after this, as the battle lines are becoming clearly drawn.
Not really. I think many of us are underestimating the impact of conference networks these days and how much content is being shifted. I looked up the Big 10 basketball TV schedule for 2021/2022 and this is what I found:
You can always watch USC or UCLA if they choose to alternate slots for that audience as B1G members. And eventually they probably add 2 more.
BIG Ten Network really does a great job of coverage and analysis of all conference sports- not just football and basketball.
It's sad seeing how bad ESPN's coverage of college hoops has gotten.
but this could mean those 30 B1G games currently on espn/espn2/espnu would move to FOX/FS1/FS2...that can't be good for us especially since we share the same 2 time zones as most of the B1G. we will be directly competing with them for the best time slots on the fox networks.
30 games over about 17 weeks equals about 2 games per week. And, the early rounds of the Big 10 tournament are on BTN so FS1/FOX will still want to show the BE tournament.
yeah i wasnt including the tourney only regular season conference games. but the BE never has more than 2 games on FOX in a given week and we could lose all of those basic cable slots. with espn losing so much content maybe they will bid up the value of our next tv deal.
sign me up for that but i'd settle for clemson to the sec and unc to the B1G. that way the acc loses their best football and bball programs, like the PAC just did, and it leaves duke high and dry.
Just rule number 1. Accept it
