Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[Rdkid]

The BIG12 sounds like a strong brand, and with all the new additions being brought over kicking and screaming, they don't want to go. They have a bright future ahead of them.

The truth is that a bunch of this is survival, smoke and mirrors stuff from the Big12 who just lost 2 behemoth football powers they will never replace both in interest/history and value. Yormark is building from a place of devastation, credit to him.

 

[CL82]

In North Carolina, you have 4 ACC schools so the ACCN fees are from 4 schools. Imagine if the ACCN fees were from one school?

And, why do you think SMU and Cal/Stanford were grabbed by the ACC? They took a reduced rate but they opened up Texas and California to in-market fees for the ACCN. Thus, they were accretive adds.

Does the ACC actually own the ACCN? If not, why would they care about whether That Work gets in market fees?

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Anyone here that still thinks the Big 12 will be a lateral move with Clemson and FSU joining is 100% out to lunch.

The ACC would effectively begin to disintegrate.

The thing is all the FSU/Clem to the Big 12 stuff last week turned out to be speculative hogwash.

That’s a huge if
The B1G and the SEC allowing an effective challenge to their P2 seems like a strategic error when they’re holding all the cards to enable them to prevent it.
They have the ability to both kill the ACC and ensure that the big 12 is no threat to their supremacy.

 

[GoConn]

 

[KryHavok]

That’s a huge if
The B1G and the SEC allowing an effective challenge to their P2 seems like a strategic error when they’re holding all the cards to enable them to prevent it.
They have the ability to both kill the ACC and ensure that the big 12 is no threat to their supremacy.

I think it comes to possibility versus probability. It is possible that the B12 challenges the P2...yeah. Is it probable that the B12 can challenge the P2, likely no. The realignment and money movement would be from B12 to P2, not the other way around. So yes, the B12 may be getting stronger if they can add some ACC teams, but dynamically the P2 are so far ahead as to make competition with them moot.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[UConnTrumbull]

But it will be the G5 who foots the bill

 

[UConnJim]

Does the ACC actually own the ACCN? If not, why would they care about whether That Work gets in market fees?

It is a joint revenue share. The ACCN probably brings in $10 million per year for each ACC school and it has been growing over time. With the addition of SMU/Cal/Stanford, the ACCN revenues will take a step up and with SMU/Cal/Stanford taking reduced shares, the rest of the ACC schools will see a step up in revenues. The difference between an in-market ACCN cable subscriber and out-of-market subscriber is ~$1+/month. Of course, cord cutting will take a toll on subscribers in the future.

 

[uconndogs]

Exactly right!

 

[Kolumbo]

The truth is that a bunch of this is survival, smoke and mirrors stuff from the Big12 who just lost 2 behemoth football powers they will never replace both in interest/history and value. Yormark is building from a place of devastation, credit to him.

Not disagreeing with you about Texas vs Oklahoma but going forward, I think things will be different, perhaps very different. I don't think it's smoke & mirrors at all.
1. Texas and Oklahoma for the first time ever are now in the SEC. Will they still be all that? I'm not so sure. First, they will likely have more losses than before. Second, it's the SEC. Will SEC fans be so quick to accept them rascals? Third, Alabama is the king. Alabama-Auburn, Florida-Georgia, those are SEC rivalries.
2. I know if we were in the Big 12 I'd sure be watching a lot more of Okie State, Arizonas, Kansases, Colorado, Utah. Just as Cincy, Houston, UCF fans are likely doing. Long time Big 12 fans may not care so much about Texas-Oklahoma anymore. So that rivalry may have lost a lot of fans right there in its own footprint.
3. UConn is sitting here as one of the premiere blue-chip programs in the country. One of our biggest rivals? Creighton. Freaking Creighton! 10 years ago I didn't give a rat's ass about Creighton. 20 years ago I couldn't find it on a map. Point being, conferences can create great rivalries and the Big 12, top to bottom, is an excellent conference with no dead weight.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

Assisted access <<

 

[bobbyinaz]

A $250M price tag: How SEC coaches will pay their football players

Hanging over this year’s college football season is the historic concept that'd permit schools to directly pay their athletes.

sports.yahoo.com

SEC football coaches saying they anticipate $15-17MM being paid to football players. That’s going to leave $5-7MM for hoops and whatever other sports they pay.

 

[huskymedic]

A $250M price tag: How SEC coaches will pay their football players

Hanging over this year’s college football season is the historic concept that'd permit schools to directly pay their athletes.

sports.yahoo.com

SEC football coaches saying they anticipate $15-17MM being paid to football players. That’s going to leave $5-7MM for hoops and whatever other sports they pay.

They’re just begging to get football spun off…

 

[jostar1]

 

[TGW93]

I was there, and I will never not watch that video any time it is put in front of me.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Not disagreeing with you about Texas vs Oklahoma but going forward, I think things will be different, perhaps very different. I don't think it's smoke & mirrors at all.
1. Texas and Oklahoma for the first time ever are now in the SEC. Will they still be all that? I'm not so sure. First, they will likely have more losses than before. Second, it's the SEC. Will SEC fans be so quick to accept them rascals? Third, Alabama is the king. Alabama-Auburn, Florida-Georgia, those are SEC rivalries.
2. I know if we were in the Big 12 I'd sure be watching a lot more of Okie State, Arizonas, Kansases, Colorado, Utah. Just as Cincy, Houston, UCF fans are likely doing. Long time Big 12 fans may not care so much about Texas-Oklahoma anymore. So that rivalry may have lost a lot of fans right there in its own footprint.
3. UConn is sitting here as one of the premiere blue-chip programs in the country. One of our biggest rivals? Creighton. Freaking Creighton! 10 years ago I didn't give a rat's ass about Creighton. 20 years ago I couldn't find it on a map. Point being, conferences can create great rivalries and the Big 12, top to bottom, is an excellent conference with no dead weight.

I would go to the B12 all sports
We would need a minimum of 50% with a graduated increase plus NCAA BB bonus
With Football playoff money that’s > $25,000,000

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Exit 4]

They’re just begging to get football spun off…

You can almost see a scenario where it is spun off for a decade and then maybe they come back. Idk- just saying just seems like this will eventually get to that point and then when they have their own smaller fishbowl for a decade do the SEC fans still love the product the same at the end of the decade? Do ratings cool a bit because it’s become a smaller / more regional product?

 

[JMick]

I figured but there were an awful lot of people online saying the summer would be "crazy" for realignment. It never made any sense to happen this year