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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 5051312, member: 3850"] This year will see the opening of the media wars...and the non P2 will not be happy. The media giants will use their bandwidth to promote their main properties. The new P2 will be really squeezing the time slots starting with the 2024 season. It will be the rollout of the FOX vs ESPN wars. FOX and ESPN will have their separate run of games every Saturday (noon, 3:30, evening time slots). For the first time in quite some time, ESPN has no B10 inventory. ESPN/ABC will heavily feature their SEC property...including their buying of the SEC Game of the Week. Beginning in 2024, ABC will air an SEC game every week, including a regular late-afternoon kickoff, and will have the option to feature an SEC game on ABC's Saturday Night Football for the first time. NBC will have Notre Dame as a lead in game before their new property, the Big Ten Game of the Week which holds a prime time slot. The media value of every non p2 school is going to drop simply because of lack of access to the best cable channels at the best time slots. Of course this was always true, but the number of best time slots is not increasing but the number of teams - and good match ups - has gone up for the P2. And their networks are paying more than before. It's just arithmetic providing more focus on the issue. JMHO... [/QUOTE]