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But Trask man, Trask! He throws a ball!

I'm struggling to see who they are going to get who will nail this recruiting window and have them winning natties next year. This feels a lot more like A&M guaranteeing $75m to keep averaging 8 wins.

Thread mascot, your efforts are appreciated.

Am I the only one curious about what all those identical trophies are for?

Yes. Disney+ has over 80m subscribers, growing faster than ESPN did, and its going to continue to swell. ESPN+ is at around 15m I think. They want to get at least half of Disney, if not match.

Yeah and the biggest piece was they can put that #1 SEC game on whenever they want, unlike CBS, which I'm willing to wager will primarily end up in primetime.

I'm kind of done with conferences. I think they're day is coming. All it will take is for two of them to realize they make more money combining than not and it will be the beginning of the end.

They couldn't sell it today, they don't have any spare inventory. But their contracts come due around 2024, which is when this deal ends. So you'd carve it out at that time. And yes, incremental, but the Big 12's T1 deal is criminally bad. They were able to renegotiate the T2 deal a few years back and they lined it up with the T1 deal, but that one is still very low. So, assuming the market doesn't just up and collapse in 2024, they're set for a big raise anyway even if they just come to mid market pricing.

They had one game a week, so it was a micro deal, but it was the prime spot. CBS didn't want a lot of games as it was as part of the year they slot in golf and tennis. It got less enticing for CBS over the past decade because they had to give everyone their 15 minutes. So Bama couldn't be on twice if the Vandy's or Mizzos of the world need to get their CBS match up too. That's why they didn't budge on the price. They may not have the depth, but my point was more if CBS only wants 8-10 games, the Big 12 is uniquely set up to carve that out. CBS would just get first choice and everything else would fall to the next network...whatever that may be in 2025. Its also the only network that could fill those games easily and be excited for a $150m contract. The SEC and ACC are out, the Big Ten will want more than $300m, which leaves the Big 12 and Pac 12. That being said, I don't think CBS is willing to pay $15-20m a game for that time slot. ESPN was able to because they didn't buy the slot, they just bought the 15 games. If they wanted, they could put the SEC on ABC at Noon (eastern), 3:30, and 7:30, while playing three other SEC games on ESPN at the same slots. No other network could really pull that off to recoup the money.

Yeah that T1 deal they had was pathetically bad, even if it gave a metric fuck ton of exposure. That CBS slot gets parroted and marketed like crazy. Its actually good for someone that its open. Considering the Big 12's is worse, it would only cost CBS $170m to sign up the Big 12 or Pac.

I don't the patience for that kind of bullshit, let's go!

So...what was the verdict on cast iron cookware?

Hold up, can we circle back to that album of awesomeness again? I think that deserves a little more attention, you know, investigate every angle and all that.

Well I can't stay up late enough for the night crew and I sleep in too late for the day crew. Someone let me know when the hookers and blow crew clocks in and I'll align my schedule accordingly.

FIFY

As much as I like flight records, can we circle back on this Helga chick again? I'm not sure its been properly vetted. That is all.

Checks out

This is where I call bullshit...

In before 1000

They play 10 this year, and all of a sudden their defenses aren't magical. They ranked behind the Big 12 and Big Ten going into last week. What a difference two games makes.