Non-Key Tweets

[giddyup]

I’d hope the governor’s office is involved, It is amazing that the one company that controls so much of realignment is in our state. And we’ve been treated the worst of any school. Just can’t make it up.

ESPN took us to the cleaners years ago with financial incentives and tax breaks and nobody bothered to make sure UConn was properly taken care of in realignment.

 

[GoKU]

Are you just being contrary? The GOR is to the conference. The media contract relies upon it. But they aren’t tied. Where did you get your law degree? Mine came from Green Hall in Lawrence.

The GOR is signed to the conference, but they are all signed in accordance to media deals. So that effect is the same. Like I said, go ahead and believe the nonsense you typed.

 

[giddyup]

Are you just being contrary? The GOR is to the conference. The media contract relies upon it. But they aren’t tied. Where did you get your law degree? Mine came from Green Hall in Lawrence.

It’s all about each school licensing their rights to sports events to the conference as a group to allow the collective licensing of a package of games to media networks. The whole enchilada is turned over to the conference in exchange for teams getting a share of negotiated license fees. GOR is a grant of a conference member’s rights to the conference. This includes rights to exclusive TV, radio broadcast in the performances, recording, replay, syndication, sub licensing (ie second tier games to second tier networks and online platforms), rights to derivative works (I.e. reuse clips and recompositions, etc.). Usually the school retains rights to its logos, designs, name etc for merchandising, licensed seat revenue, concessions, etc. There is nothing magical going on.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Get a load of this dude not knowing what subsidiaries and parent companies are.

The people at the tippy top don't make every single decision for their subsidiaries. Crazy I know

Lol

 

[superjohn]

You guys are all insane.

 

[RSTuthill]

Many people in the northeast call the majority of the country fly over country and then go down the ugly path of hurling insults at large swaths of the country as toothless sister schtupers. I miss some things about the northeast but I certainly don't miss that stuff.

As the white outfitted cowboy gunslinging dude in the vids says in the bar as he is about to plug a bad guy, "Might I suggest that you need a better class of friends". Although born in Texas, I have lived almost my entire life in the northeast and literally have never heard those kinds of remarks. And statistically if that was a factor, it would have been analysed to death a long ago. Were you being serious or facetious?

 

[GG]

 

[pepband99]

Report: ACC Included WVU in Model for Expansion

Could West Virginia jump to a new conference?

www.si.com

I got lured in by the SI address, but this borders on insane.

 

[businesslawyer]

Wrong. The GOR is always tied to the media contract. It's why they are the same length. But go on believing your nonsense.

The schools enter into the GOR with the conference, not the network. That gives the conference the rights to the school’s home games for a period of time, whether the school remains in the conference or not. The conference then assigns those rights to the network as part of their TV deal (if you’re giving rights to one network), or assigns pieces of those rights to a number of networks.

 

[businesslawyer]

From my non-lawyering perspective, we don't "know much about them" because we know everything about them. It's a straightforward and simple contract and it hasn't been challenged or tested because it's so straightforward no one has bothered to try and wiggle out of it.

Here is the issue: one is allowed to breach a contract as long as you’re willing to pay the other side’s damages. The issue on the GOR that hasn’t been tested in the courts, and is not as straightforward as you suggest, is whether the GOR is a transfer of property, such that there is nothing for a school to breach going forward — the rights are already gone — or is a promise to allow someone to televise its home games in the future, in which case it is a contract subject to future performance that the school can breach and be subject to damages.

Does that help?

 

[businesslawyer]

As the white outfitted cowboy gunslinging dude in the vids says in the bar as he is about to plug a bad guy, "Might I suggest that you need a better class of friends". Although born in Texas, I have lived almost my entire life in the northeast and literally have never heard those kinds of remarks. And statistically if that was a factor, it would have been analysed to death a long ago. Were you being serious or facetious?

People are being fed this victimization crap on the internet. And like to believe it for reasons I can’t fathom.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Here is the issue: one is allowed to breach a contract as long as you’re willing to pay the other side’s damages. The issue on the GOR that hasn’t been tested in the courts, and is not as straightforward as you suggest, is whether the GOR is a transfer of property, such that there is nothing for a school to breach going forward — the rights are already gone — or is a promise to allow someone to televise its home games in the future, in which case it is a contract subject to future performance that the school can breach and be subject to damages.

Does that help?

Exactly. I’ve been negotiating IP licensing contracts since the 90s. These are structured enough like that make then very risky to challenge. Intellectual Property conveyances are going to be different than a mere promise to perform.

Examples in other industries: Sony still has the rights to Spider-Man, Disney has to deal with them to add Spider-Man to Marvel movies. Taylor Swift sold the rights to her first six albums, so ended up re-recoding them all on a new label.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

Are you just being contrary? The GOR is to the conference. The media contract relies upon it. But they aren’t tied. Where did you get your law degree? Mine came from Green Hall in Lawrence.

The GOR is signed to the conference, but they are all signed in accordance to media deals. So that effect is the same. Like I said, go ahead and believe the nonsense you typed.

Throwing us off the scent by arguing with yourself, clever

 

[CL82]

Throwing us off the scent by arguing with yourself, clever

 

[Rico444]

I hope you reached out to Sony for permission before posting that meme.

 

[CL82]

I hope you reached out to Sony for permission before posting that meme.

Marvel. Sony only owns the movie rights.

 

[Dooooooomed]

 

[CL82]

SI showing us some love...

 

[Urcea]

 

[Hoophound]

Garbage. He knows nothing, never has.

 

[jostar1]

 

[jostar1]

 

[auggie22]

From my non-lawyering perspective, we don't "know much about them" because we know everything about them. It's a straightforward and simple contract and it hasn't been challenged or tested because it's so straightforward no one has bothered to try and wiggle out of it.

What do you mean by simple? In their wording that is probably true. Yet there have been quite a few administrators on record who have said they have lawyers looking at the GORs. You must know something they do not.

They have not been challenged yet, true. I’d bet a challenge is coming though. Too much money at stake for the handful of schools who could be P2 bound.

Also, the next time that schools are added to a conference without signing a new GOR will be the first. That will be a big test.

 

[ZooCougar]

Everybody is just piling on with speculation because it's in the middle of summer and there's nothing else to write about. I have to say, I'm pretty chill this go round. If we end up getting the invite from the big 12 and finally get a seat at the big boy table, it's all good. If rule one raises its ugly head and we end up in the Big East, that's not so bad. I've enjoyed our time in the conference, with all its flaws. That's far different from when we were in the American and every single opportunity to get out of that suck fest seemed life or death.

Same. As an independent in football we have a lower ceiling. But we haven’t even gotten close to that ceiling yet. So I’m just not going to worry about it.

Honestly the worst case scenario for us is if the Big 12 takes a bunch of basketball onlies from the Bjg East but that seems unlikely.

 

[superjohn]

As the white outfitted cowboy gunslinging dude in the vids says in the bar as he is about to plug a bad guy, "Might I suggest that you need a better class of friends". Although born in Texas, I have lived almost my entire life in the northeast and literally have never heard those kinds of remarks. And statistically if that was a factor, it would have been analysed to death a long ago. Were you being serious or facetious?

I didn't say these are my friends but I've had to deal with these people throughout my life. You don't have to look further than this board and UConn Twitter to see these clowns.