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

If true, this is a neutral result for us. It's bad because it's a potential door out of the AAC that's closed, but it's also good because it would close the door for now on a very realistic situation where we're stuck in a weakened AAC minus one or more of Cincinnati, UH, UCF, or Memphis.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
If true, this is a neutral result for us. It's bad because it's a potential door out of the AAC that's closed, but it's also good because it would close the door for now on a very realistic situation where we're stuck in a weakened AAC minus one or more of Cincinnati, UH, UCF, or Memphis.
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"Castiglione is one of two high-placed sources to tell CBS Sports Big 12 expansion is over. The other source, who preferred to remain anonymous, said expansion was dead regarding "those teams."

That's a reference to usual group of schools attached to the Big 12 that includes BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, Colorado State, UConn, Houston and Memphis."

So they're still dreaming about FSU and Clemson.
 
John E. Hoover ‏@johnehoover · 2h2 hours ago
Bob Bowlsby, Joe Castiglione offer divergent views on the topic of Big 12 expansion

From the article:

"On Tuesday, Big 12 Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby told the Des Moines Register that a decision on expansion could be forthcoming within the next two weeks.

On Wednesday, University of Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione told CBS Sports that there is no timeline for Big 12 expansion and the topic was essentially dead.

Both Bowlsby and Castiglione are good people and great men and tremendous leaders and certainly captains of their industry.

But these two reports, less than 24 hours apart, illustrate precisely the kind of divergence that exists at the highest levels in the Big 12, and are a perfect example of why this league simply may not be fixable.

It may be just too much to ask the Big 12 to come to a consensus on something as important as expansion."
 
John Ourand ‏@Ourand_SBJ · 8h8 hours ago
After 36 years in Bristol, John Wildhack is leaving ESPN to become Athletic Director of Syracuse, his alma mater. Full story coming in SBD.

Jon Solomon ‏@JonSolomonCBS · 8h8 hours ago
So what does having a major ESPN exec as Syracuse AD mean for the ACC's strategy with ESPN? It certainly can't hurt the ACC's efforts.
 
jostar1 said:
How can we be stuck in the AAC? It's unbelievable!
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Well, I guess Bowlsby was recently quoted as saying about 100 schools win 95% of the ncaa championships, which should keep us safe for a while when the P5 decides to whittle down Division 1.
 
jostar1 said:
John Ourand ‏@Ourand_SBJ · 8h8 hours ago
After 36 years in Bristol, John Wildhack is leaving ESPN to become Athletic Director of Syracuse, his alma mater. Full story coming in SBD.

Jon Solomon ‏@JonSolomonCBS · 8h8 hours ago
So what does having a major ESPN exec as Syracuse AD mean for the ACC's strategy with ESPN? It certainly can't hurt the ACC's efforts.
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It means Syracuse isn't a very desirable AD job.
 
TRest said:
Well, I guess Bowlsby was recently quoted as saying about 100 schools win 95% of the ncaa championships, which should keep us safe for a while when the P5 decides to whittle down Division 1.
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I think they would rather wittle down the FBS than D-1 as a whole. The more teams in college basketball the better; the less teams in college football the better.
 
jostar1 said:
John Ourand ‏@Ourand_SBJ · 8h8 hours ago
After 36 years in Bristol, John Wildhack is leaving ESPN to become Athletic Director of Syracuse, his alma mater. Full story coming in SBD.

Jon Solomon ‏@JonSolomonCBS · 8h8 hours ago
So what does having a major ESPN exec as Syracuse AD mean for the ACC's strategy with ESPN? It certainly can't hurt the ACC's efforts.
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Crimeny why can't the AAC pull off something like that? I mean if Syracuse got an ESPN exec our conference should be able to get a broadcast network executive! Could imagine that what that would mean as to, oh I know say CBS's strategy toward the American!
 
CL82 said:
Crimeny why can't the AAC pull off something like that? I mean if Syracuse got an ESPN exec our conference should be able to get a broadcast network executive! Could imagine that what that would mean as to, oh I know say CBS's strategy toward the American!
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You're kidding. We have as per wiki Micheal Aresco, a college and television executive!
 
Not strictly CR, but tangentially related. Will ACC go similar route?


 
junglehusky said:
Not strictly CR, but tangentially related. Will ACC go similar route?


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I guess I am getting old, because while I'll use apple tv, espn III and several other streaming services on occasion, I don't see myself getting involved in twitter - ever.
 
Exit 4 said:
I guess I am getting old, because while I'll use apple tv, espn III and several other streaming services on occasion, I don't see myself getting involved in twitter - ever.
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When twitter did a test broadcast of Wimbledon, IIRC you didn't need to have a twitter account or even use the mobile app. You could just open the url on a browser and it worked pretty well (for me at least). Will be interesting to see if other sports use the same approach. I don't think I tried to watch their NFL broadcast.
 
Twitter: monthly active users 2010-2016 - Statista

Twitter has a decent number of users who may be able to cross promote events on other social media platforms. No idea how many are football fans, or college sports fans in general or how they monetize that distribution. But it may be totally irrelevant if they' re just doing Olympic sports.
 
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JSM1970 said:
Seems like a desperate move

Is this mostly based on women's hoops and field hockey?
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Please start typing your posts UNDER the post you're quoting as 99.9% of posters here do. Sorry if it's OCD but it always throws me off. I suppose I could just block you. Or you could stop posting.
 
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