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Hurtlocker

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  1. Bungled opportunities to raid Big 12, passive leadership has Pac-12 on brink with Colorado departing in 2024 "Colorado's exit now makes it OK to question out loud the process the Pac-12 has taken to this point. Upon losing USC and UCLA, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff either could not or would not get a media rights deal done in an early negotiating window last summer. That should have been the first indicator of the league's diminishing value. There continue to be rumors the Pac-12 asked for as much $500 million annually at one point. That's $50 million per team per year, which would have put the Pac-12 in the same orbit as the Big Ten despite two biggest West Coast brands walking out the door."
  2. I'm with you on this, but I still think you take an Arizona team over Utah, even with the recent success of Utah football. Not that Utah is a bad add, having the Holy War in house is a marketable rivalry game, but they need a flag in Arizona more than they need another in Utah. I'd probably say this is your order if 1 says no, go to 2, etc. Oregon Washington Arizona Stanford Utah Arizona State Cal Oregon State Washington State
  3. Right, but Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and USC are the reason they get paid $75m a year. Oregon may be a bigger brand than Iowa, but they're not commanding that kind of money. That was the point of the comment. They're not big enough to make the B1G money, but they are big enough to make the B12/Pac more money. They exist in that gap between the two.
  4. Wow, it didn't fall through
  5. The real irony is that the Pac could be the Pac 18 right now and Cinci, UCF, BYU, and Houston would be where they were. But the Pac didn't strike. Wasting two chances to kill the Big 12 in a single decade came back to bite them.
  6. Yeah I'd lump Oregon, Washington, FSU, and Clemson into that purgatory tier between the massive brands and the normal P5 brands. Big enough to move the B12/ACC needle, but not enough to move the SEC/B1G needle
  7. That's it everyone, its official! You heard it here first!
  8. and then there is this: And this was the Oregon meeting:
  9. According to reports, it was like $17m before July, then $34m after. I think it has to do with how quickly notice is given, so if you want out sooner, the price goes up. Also SDSU just paid the legal fees to the MWC to get them to agree that they didn't leave, and NOW the Pac is going to consider. Its just so backwards.
  10. The Pac is such a shit show making bad decision after bad decision, its really stunning.
  11. AFTER SDST said we need to do this before July because we can't afford the $34m buyout if we don't.
  12. Mother of god...
  13. I'm with you, but again though, they can do that at 16 and share it with less mouths. There is quite literally no one out there that matches Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Tennessee or hell even Auburn. The strength is there without need of dilution. With 32 teams you could toss out CCGs and pit the top 4 against each other in an 8 and keep all the money. 20-24 does nothing more than give you what you have, except instead of paying them in the ACC, you're paying them in the SEC. But, at the end of the day, there aren't more slots available to watch the high paying games during the season and the B1G/SEC already own the best ones. If you add 16 more teams, that's 4 more games a week that need to be shown to pay for them. The most valuable in is likely keeping the B12/ACC at 16 and let them fight for the left over slots while you get paid a premium for the best ones. Then give them some post season money by performance, which you know you'll earn the lion's share of. That way you give away a little to get a lot, as opposed to needing to support these moves all year long.
  14. SirusXM shows while driving this morning.
  15. Ha, there is more money on the playoffs than the regular season. There is ZERO chance there won't be a playoff.
  16. Heard McMurphy, Scheer, and another on talk radio today and they've all kind of clarified something that we've wondered. It seems the way the Pac's contract is written, there is no buyout if they leave by next summer. There is also no "one year notice" as long as its by 8/1/24, per their contract. Colorado must have been given a deadline by the B12 of August.
  17. They can do that with 16
  18. Exactly, and they pay for it with late night games. Oregon/Washington, if they were two of that four, may actually increase the payout. If not immediately, definitely in 2031.
  19. Yeah and they're not available. Oregon/Wash are the two biggest brands in the Pac, but Colorado/Arizona are in the tier right below them. If you get Arizona you could be done, looks good on a map, better brands than Houston, and increases your footprint in more populated areas. At that point, will Oregon and Washington want to wait it out 6 years for a B1G invite when one may never come? ND is the crown jewel of their desire and may want UVA/UNC over you, not to mention Stanford in your own conference. Also, the B1G, like the SEC, has absolutely ZERO need to expand past 16. They control the current narrative and literally any add besides ND waters down their power. So do you sit it out adding Boise's and SMUs and the like, or do you make the jump to your second-best long-term option, though best short term, and become THE brand in a 16 team conference that gives you games you can win all over the nation? The fact that the Pac allowed itself to get here is a stunning failure, far worse than the old B12 being unable to work as a team. Instead of working against each other, they destroyed what they had as a team. And now a couple will have an option and are fighting against teammates to survive. Whoever doesn't win out has no option left, but relegation.
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