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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4342453, member: 549"] Realistic math discussion here: -> Thompson said the Big Ten’s decision to add two Los Angeles-based universities was rooted in a simple math equation. The 14 existing conference members know they’ll receive approximately $71.4 million per university under the new Fox deal. [URL='https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-pac-12-gut-punch-comes-with']Adding two more partners only made sense if they could generate a minimum of $143 million in additional distributable revenue. <-[/URL] [URL='https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-pac-12-gut-punch-comes-with']-> The Big Ten appears focused on trying to lure Notre Dame into the fold right now. After that, Oregon and Washington may be of interest to the Big Ten. However, Thompson estimated that those two Pac-12 universities, along with the Oregon and Washington television markets, would only generate an additional $60 million in combined additional revenues.[/URL] It doesn’t kill the possibility of Oregon and Washington following USC and UCLA into the conference. It just means that the Big Ten members have two options if they’re going to do it: A) Be OK with about $6 million less annually to have UO and UW in the house; or B) Welcome Oregon and Washington, but inform the newcomers that they won’t get full distributions for a while. Perhaps this is where Nike founder and long-time Oregon mega-booster Phil Knight might factor. He has ties to ESPN. I wonder if Knight might convince that network to make an investment in the Pac-12 and position the conference to raid the Big 12. Under that scenario the Pac-12 would survive and become the country’s No. 3 conference. Or maybe Knight would simply subsidize the Oregon-Washington entry into the Big Ten. <- Who’s gonna be our Phil Knight? [/QUOTE]

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