PAC 12 final offer

[noeynox]

ESPN is desperate, and is acting crazy. We may look back on this period and realize in hindsight that ESPN was inducing schools to sign on in a desperate attempt to boost its value before Disney sells it. The cable companies are not backing down to ESPN anymore, and ESPN's revenue model is about to collapse. ESPN is going to have a hard time honoring all these long-term deals when the cable bundles go a la carte.

Don't know what this has to do with the fact that if the 10 PAC schools wanted to stay together, they had a worthwhile offer to stay together.

Sure ESPN may be dying, but until they do they are paying those schools in the ACC and Big12 that were in the PAC and they offered to pay them the same to stay together.

 

[upstater]

ESPN is desperate, and is acting crazy. We may look back on this period and realize in hindsight that ESPN was inducing schools to sign on in a desperate attempt to boost its value before Disney sells it. The cable companies are not backing down to ESPN anymore, and ESPN's revenue model is about to collapse. ESPN is going to have a hard time honoring all these long-term deals when the cable bundles go a la carte.

Spectrum and Disney are in a fight. Apparently in NY state, there is no more ESPN on Spectrum cable. Things are really coming together for ESPN, but not in a good way.

 

[upstater]

The whole thing collapsed because UO and UW set the precedent of taking less over a long period to join a conference. SMU has now agreed to take nothing. The next teams may have to agree to pay, lol.

But that's not a precedent. Many teams have done that throughout the years. Penn St, Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska. Im pretty sure Missouri did the same with the ACC

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Spectrum and Disney are in a fight. Apparently in NY state, there is no more ESPN on Spectrum cable. Things are really coming together for ESPN, but not in a good way.

These didn’t used to be fights. ESPN used to just kick their asses. It looks like those days are over.

 

[noeynox]

But that's not a precedent. Many teams have done that throughout the years. Penn St, Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska. Im pretty sure Missouri did the same with the ACC

But they did so for the lifetime of the contract. Not a phasing in like in the past.

 

[upstater]

But they did so for the lifetime of the contract. Not a phasing in like in the past.

Just to be clear though. For schools like Penn State and Rutgers it was 7 years. So... this is 9 years, apparently

 

[huskymedic]