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Lonestar88

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  1. Gerry has been doing the “hi” thing for silent commits too, which is functionally useless for us. Hope this is one that’s actually about to go public.
  2. Yeah, that’s how everyone else took it too. Pretty sure Sydney is talking about Moore ratcheting up his offer, not Simmons.
  3. This caught me off guard, but it’s super early, I’m not at all convinced this is going to stick.
  4. Watch the video man, Cutty says the first part, then Slim Charles drops the line that I was responding to.
  5. Slim Charles one of the most underrated Wire characters.
  6. That’s actually pretty crazy considering how much the ratings services have shit on our commits after they committed to us. Damn near every player on our commit list dropped after committing to us and ,the opposite has happened for aggy, and we’re 1 player from passing them anyway.
  7. In this scenario, ESPN would lose all games for North Carolina, Virginia, and Miami, because they don’t have Big 10 rights and parts of Duke, Pitt and Louisville because the Big 12 rights are split with FOX. Is that worth just 36M in savings? That’s not that great of a deal for ESPN. Also, 31 million is a steep pay cut for Duke, Pitt, and Louisville, and the Big 12 contract isn’t big enough in the future to make up for it.
  8. He is legitimately a fucking moron. ASU fans better be glad they’re tied to hips of UofA.
  9. Exactly. I don’t know why this is so hard for people to grasp. The Tv networks are the ones in charge here and ESPN has no incentive to break apart the ACC right now.
  10. The Big 10’s current contracts run until 2030. So UO and UW won’t get full shares until then.
  11. I don't see it this way at all. ESPN and FOX were willing to pay the SEC and the BIG more money in part because they knew they weren’t going to pay the PAC. And now they get all of the best teams from the PAC anyway. That Apple deal was so shitty that the PAC decided to disband instead. Maybe they will be in the future, but Apple isn’t a threat to ESPN or FOX yet.
  12. This all could just be Oregon and UW trying to get leverage in negotiations with the Big 10.
  13. If UO and UW stay in the Pac-12, I assume they either didn’t get the Big 10 offer at all or it was insanely and insultingly low.
  14. That would be less money. MWC teams get 4 mil a year per team.
  15. Well, the alternative is the Pac disintegrates and they make even less money.
  16. ESPN absolutely paid for Texas and OU, just not in the way you think. They had to pay Fox. Fox has Big 12 rights and we’re losing their two biggest bell cows. They got compensated for that by ESPN, with money and additional inventory. I don’t think the exact amount was ever made public though. Theres no such problem for these departing PAC-12 schools though, because the Pac doesn’t have a tv deal. So any network money spent can just go the the conference/schools.
  17. Nebraska didn’t get a full share until their 7th year in the conference. Rutgers and Maryland didn’t get it until their 8th. USC and UCLA are getting full shares immediately. So that tells you how much the Big 10 wanted each school. Washington and Oregon are desperate and have no leverage because they don’t really want to go to the Big 12 and the Big 10 is kind of lukewarm on them anyways. They aren’t going to get full shares for a while.
  18. This would be my hope. I know Duncanville would like their guys to announce before the season and that would make the Durham and Simmons announcements make sense even if they weren’t going to the same school. But if it’s not a Duncanville thing, then it’s hard for me to find another way to spin it. Now that’s an interesting twist.
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