And despite its struggles the PAC was still more valuable than the big12 without Texas and Oklahoma…that was my point. The timing that killed them was yormark renegotiating the big12 deal before kliavkoff leaving the PAC with a hodgepodge of streaming suitors.
Not sure where the Rutgers fetish is coming from, but at least they made it to the adult table.
People keep saying this but it won't happen. Look at European soccer (the closest thing globally to college sports from a fanbase and structure perspective). The English Premier League is one of the most lucrative leagues in the world yet the top club only makes a little more than the last place club on a sliding scale. It is part equal revenue sharing and part merit-based. In Spain, the clubs a few years ago decided to bundle their TV rights together as opposed to selling them individually and everyone got a massive payday at the time.
60% of the BIG10 games are going to be streaming next year, including some exclusively so, on a service that has a lot more subscribers than Apple. Every CBS game will also air on Paramount+ and every NBC game on Peacock, plus 9 exclusive games on Peacock. The deal capitalizes on the current big cable money, while also heavily moving into the streaming space simultaneously. Seems like great short term and long term thinking went into that.
So better to not even try then, very defeatist of you.
Look at the newspaper business. I have a friend who works in the business and when the newspaper became available on-line, they could measure how many people were reading each article and the newspaper's management had the ability to improve pay for the writers that were being read and reduce pay or positions for the writers who weren't being read. They didn't do that. Slowly but surely, the good writers in areas in which readers were interested started moving on and the writers that weren't being read clinged to their jobs as they had no alternative. Down the road, schools like Ohio State are going to say, we're bringing 1.5 million subscribers to the BTN at $10/month and Northwestern is only bringing in 50k subscribers, but our total media payment from all media partners is $100 million per year the same as Northwestern, so we want more. The whole media world is about clicks and views so I don't see why college football media compensation doesn't go the same way. And, I think this would be a very good thing for UConn athletics!
A successful football team would be like having permission to print your own money just based on stadium revenue. That is part of the allure of big-time football.
One key to remember though is many of those programs make as much as they do because they are in a P conference. If UConn were in the ACC all these years it probably would have been ahead of Va Tech, Ga Tech, Cal, NC State, and many privates who aren't listed. Even Pitt isn't reporting its figures for some reason.
It’s only surprising if you do not believe fb drives the bus.
Look at Rutgers home football schedule in 2022:
They play Indiana twice? Both times at Rutgers?