CL82
NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champions - Again!
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Rather than try and hit a moving target, lol - Nelson your whole MO is to create moving tagarts by making up rediculous positions that you can easily rebut and attributing them to other posters. I pointed that out above, specifically, and you, not surprisingly, side stepped addressing it. let me ask two clarifying questions:
1) Why would NBC sign a big deal with the Big East if there was a material risk it could lose key teams? Why would NBC make the investment in staff, infrastructure and marketing when they are bearing all the risk that the Big East fractures at some point?
2) Why wouldn't Big East schools sign a GOR unless they thought they were going to get an invitation from the Big 10 or ACC?
Here's your answer:
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GOR protects the conference, a no change clause protects the network. In essence they say, here's our deal with your conference with the following members, if that changes, we reserve the right to renegotiate the deal. Now if a TV deal has that and I'm a university president that isn't particularly desirable on the open market, I might push for a GOR to protect me. One can argue, however, that if a university isn't particularly desireable on the open market, then they aren't the ones bringing the value to the TV contract in first place. So a name program might tell them to GPSUYA, in university speak of course. It will be an interesting six months.
GoR isn't a mechanism to give rights to NBC as you initially asserted. It is mechanism to ry to hold a conference together. If you have any examples of a school giving a GoR to network, please let me know.
Like anyone with a valuable right, a university is not going to give a GoR unless it gets significant value in return. It's easy to give up your broadcast rights if you are sure that no one else wants you. It's foolish to do so, without significant benefit in exchange, if you think that you are an interesting property.