SI Staples good read on TV rights

[whaler11]

and links to other good reads on TV rights.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...college-football/index.html?eref=twitter_feed

 

[Carl Spackler]

The guy ripped off eveyrthing I wrote on this website 6 months ago. I really need to figure out a way to get paid for all this stuff.

 

[Hoophound]

The guy ripped off eveyrthing I wrote on this website 6 months ago. I really need to figure out a way to get paid for all this stuff.

Lol. He really did.

 

[HuskyFan16]

As soon as I saw the Board of Regents case, I thought the same thing Carl haha.

 

[Jimdish255]

While ESPN keeps coming up in regard to realignment, Magnus bristles at the notion that ESPN was the man behind the curtain moving schools from conference to conference. "The misunderstanding that is out there is that we were the architects behind this or that or that we cared to influence it," Magnus said. "I can say this with very, very personal knowledge and experience. If I could change the clock back to November of 2008 with a snap of my fingers, I would do that in a second. We were better off as a company." Magnus is correct. Before the most recent wave of realignment began, ESPN paid far less for college rights and made a higher profit margin off those rights. Few companies would pull strings to significantly increase their overhead. "Change happens," Magnus said. "If you fight change, you're going to lose."

Does this statement prove they had nothing to do with it? Or does it show that ESPN execs believed after the first contract extension offer was refused they stood a good chance of losing the property? Thereafter the BE was looked at as a competitor to their primary affiliated conference and a strategy of retribution began, not entirely sure of the outcome but hoping to weaken the BE into some type of submission.

 

[whaler11]

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Does this statement prove they had nothing to do with it? Or does it show that ESPN execs believed after the first contract extension offer was refused they stood a good chance of losing the property? Thereafter the BE was looked at as a competitor to their primary affiliated conference and a strategy of retribution began, not entirely sure of the outcome but hoping to weaken the BE into some type of submission.

I know it means at least one party is lying .

 

[Marty Jackson]

Does this statement prove they had nothing to do with it? Or does it show that ESPN execs believed after the first contract extension offer was refused they stood a good chance of losing the property? Thereafter the BE was looked at as a competitor to their primary affiliated conference and a strategy of retribution began, not entirely sure of the outcome but hoping to weaken the BE into some type of submission.

Given the BE is clinging to life right now while ESPN is literally driving the bus makes me think ESPN has had a hand in the BE's current position.

After every realignment, the BE seems to lose a school or two and the other conference seems to re-work their deal with ESPN. Hmmmm...

Apparently ESPN is a big fan of wealth re-distribution...

 

[CL82]

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Does this statement prove they had nothing to do with it? Or does it show that ESPN execs believed after the first contract extension offer was refused they stood a good chance of losing the property? Thereafter the BE was looked at as a competitor to their primary affiliated conference and a strategy of retribution began, not entirely sure of the outcome but hoping to weaken the BE into some type of submission.

Yep, big difference between what was said and what is implied, that's a hallmark of a spin attempt.