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Hurtlocker

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  1. Well, they weren't listed in the article, so the three were the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac 12. Those ones you mentioned are already relegated because they don't really play many games off the SEC Network.
  2. I think this alliance should go all premier league: 1) Merge together all the teams of the three discussed, the remaining 8 (49 teams) and maybe the AAC (60 teams) 2) Based on some qualifier like 3-5 year success, rotate the top 32 programs into the League 1, with all games being on the national networks 3) Split those into 4 pods of 8, like SE, NE, Central, West. Seven games per pod, 3 against other pods, 2 games against L2. 4) League 2 formed by the remaining 28 teams, who have all their games on the League networks (minus the two featured) 5) Two championships: Pod champs are autos with 4 of wildcards. Everyone else plays a post season, made for TV, exhibition 6) 8 team advancement/relegation on 3 year windows, or maybe stager it to 2 per year on a 3 year average or something. Even the toilet bowl that year could be exciting if the loser lost their spot. Eventually all the crap that fills up conferences would sort itself out and those that were driven to compete would move up. You'd have enough inventory to spread it around to multiple partners like the NFL does. The money would be there to pay both leagues a healthy amount.
  3. Agree on academics, but technically WVU is in the Pittsburgh DMA, so its the same city market, but I'd wager Pitt threw the "we draw all of Pennsylvania" card. Which, they don't, they barely draw Pittsburgh.
  4. Pitt only had two games televised last year; at home against Clemson and on the road against Notre Dame. Both games were half the audience both Clemson and ND typically draw.
  5. Yeah I don't know, great question. I may pull all the numbers this week.
  6. Yeah, not saying they're not there, just saying they don't really dominate the conversation, football wise. UVA is positioned more as basketball.
  7. That's a good point I hadn't even considered. When they added Maryland, BTN was carried in NoVa too, because several carriers handle the entire metro. Not sure if that's true in Richmond or Hampton Roads.
  8. haha, yeah, I'd guess more people visit Charlottesville for the wineries and breweries than the football
  9. The Big 12 doesn't have camera crews, the legal issues would be between the SEC and Big 12, not the schools. Even in the SEC the conference controls the broadcast rights, in their case on yearly GoRs instead of multi-year (unless they changed that with the new ESPN deal). They either can't sell them to ESPN, because they don't own anything to sell, or the check gets mailed to the Big 12, instead of Texas/OU, for media revenue until the GoR expires. These are not unique documents, they are used all the time in broadcasting/entertainment. But, the larger point is it will either be ridden out to avoid all negotiations, or there will be a settlement.
  10. hahaha, bastard! Missed the 8. Trickery
  11. Holy shit, that's not some rando
  12. Reporting from NoVa - no one gives a shit about the Cavs here, except for alumni and its a small school. Its a very fractured market for brands in general and there are so many colleges within 5 hours that no one brings the state, let alone the metros. The eastern side of the Potomac is basically the Redskins, then the Caps/Nats, then the Steelers, then the Ravens, then a chasm the size of Florida until you get to Maryland/Penn State, and that's only because Georgetown isn't a basketball power any more. On the NoVa side of the river its the same Redskins/Nats/Caps/Steelers, then another major chasm before you get to college sports. When you do the two biggest are likely VTech and WVU, who both have alumni all over the area. (Morgantown isn't much further away than UVA is, and Vtech is two hours further out from both). Honestly, the biggest college football game that matters in the region is likely the Army/Navy game as there is no dominant college sport presence in the area. If I polled 100 random people I bet less than 5% would even know a single conference connected to a school.
  13. Playing this scheduling alliance out a bit further, what actually may make more sense is to go to 32. For the sake of argument, let's say the Big Ten takes ISU/KSU and the Pac 12 takes Tech/OSU/KSU and likely TCU over Baylor because they played in the Rose Bowl once and, at least publicly, are less rapey. If the Rose Bowl tie breaker doesn't work than I recommend a knife fight between the University presidents, "Beat It" style, where the winner gets the last spot once they've drank all the blood of the vanquished. Both conferences could go 4 pods of 9 conference games, which gives you 3 in your own, and two in every other pod per year. The B1G likely wouldn't gain money, but they wouldn't lose any either and the Pac would increase considerably with games in the central, especially Texas. Then the B1G and Pac could do a two game scheduling alliance, which would give said 25% boost and they'd be up to 11 P5 games a year, leaving one open for either ND or the Sisters of the Blind. Want to increase it about 5-10% more? Schedule more conference games the weekend of the champ game, like the Covid make ups this year, between schools who didn't play each other. No reason everyone can't get 13 games in. Add that up and the B1G is looking at a contract worth north of $75M per team and basically controls half of college football (the Pac can't say no with the B1G's dick in its mouth) from LA to NYC. That could definitely boost value considerably and would likely force the ACC to get into bed fully with the SEC to match up. You're welcome, Bowlsby.
  14. Ha, yeah, Tech and ISU's merged enrollment is larger than KSU, KU, Baylor, and TCU combined. I'd be more worried if I were Baylor/TCU/KSU, than Tech/KU/ISU
  15. Its not shocking that the Pac would not be interested in religious schools, but I cannot imagine a world where they leave KU out for KState. Also, no way they'd do divisions though and deny everyone SoCal. Colorado and the AZ schools would riot
  16. That's basically it, though I doubt it would be four, more likely 2 so you had a home and away each year. The premise is basically that anything unknown in a schedule is worth, basically, nothing. 90% of a conferences broadcast value comes from conference games. Since they don't know up front if you're scheduling well or shittily, and since they don't know if OOC is home or away, networks hate them. However, if you could turn those OOC games into known match ups, you could get conference game value out of them. A two game alliance, where it is always a home/away between the P12/B12 per year, would basically increase the value of each contract by about 22-25% and could provide a needed boost to both leagues in terms of schedule strength and audience.
  17. Don't forget Tuxedo Yoda
  18. I lulzed at these three
  19. That's not how it works. There are two distinctly different financial constructs: 1 - Withdraw penalty (two years of revenue) 2 - Grant of Rights until 2025. Now, per the obvious, yes legally these can be negotiated down. The point was there is more than one issue to resolve and that the easiest way to resolve it is to get the other teams to dissolve the conference, then they both go away. If the 8 stay together they can withhold revenue for 2 years to pay the buyout and make it difficult for the SEC to add games to their contract until the term expires.
  20. Yeah, leaving prior to the GoR being termed is painful. They keep quoting $80m, but that's just the withdraw penalty. The rights to all T1/2 broadcasts are held by the Big 12 until 2025, that's the real kicker. So, imagine $80m, plus no game revenue for 4 years, even if moved sooner. That being said, I cannot imagine a scenario where you play out 4 years. Everyone likes to say "fuck off" here, but its in the best interests of everyone to get Tech and OkSt (and likely KU/ISU) a good home. At that point you could vote to dissolve and eradicate the buyout and the GoR. Dates of note: 2022 - NFL Deals expire 2023 - SEC T1 moves from CBS to ESPN 2024 - Pac/B1G deals expire 2025 - B12 deals expire 2032 - SEC T2/3 deals expire 2036 - ACC deal expires
  21. Its part of the bylaws now and they seem to have altered it since the last realignment. Now as soon as you signal your intent to withdraw, you lose your vote, the percent is only of the schools who haven't withdrawn.
  22. Eh....its run by Bama.
  23. I think this sums it up beautifully.
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