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[QUOTE="UConnSportsGuy, post: 4713194, member: 323"]
I wonder if part of the hold up on the Pac12 deal with the teams looking to stay is the distribution of revenue.  WSU and Oregon St are desperate and in no position to negotiate--they are just trying to survive.

With the deal being a fully digital streaming deal with Apple, it opens new possibilities that are not available in the black-box cable set world.  Maybe they are negotiating among themselves not only an uneven payout distribution based on on-field performance (NCAA credits), but also based on the actual viewership of events since you can track that with digital streaming.  So conference payouts are  dependent on the number of actual viewers of those events by school...so Oregon and Washington would obviously get a much bigger slice of the pie which would likely close the monetary gap to the B12 money.  Maybe that is why they continue to meet and have these negotiations at the last minute to hammer out the distribution of revenue across schools.  And also could explain Arizona State's stubborn interest in staying in the P12...as that model would also help ASU given their large alumni and fan base.
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