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TKthunder2

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  1. 1. Third party vendor support. What do you want to use, who has it? 2. ACH - what are the fees what type can they do, collections, tax payments, batch (for payroll) 3. Positive Pay - if you’re a small business still writing real checks, I would make sure your bank has a positive pay solution to avoid get caught up in check fraud. These would be the three biggest things I’d look for outside of general fees/balance requirements.
  2. According to 538 Oregon’s TV viewership was only behind ND, FSU, and Clemson for schools not in the Power2. Oregon is very decisive, but the facts are the facts.
  3. Add in that only 2 conference games (omitting USCvUCLA) were top 5 games of the week per the ratings last year (UO/UW, and Utah/UCLA) and that with most of their top games were on FOX or ESPN late which artificially boosted their numbers and you can see the issue. Take those advantages and the LA schools/market away and you can see why networks don’t want to pay for their tier 2 or tier 3 games.
  4. That would get you 3 late OOC games and 3 conferences games between those 3 schools. To get full weekly coverage you need 6 additional conference games against Central Time Zone opponents. That would be 2 additional games per team. That would put them 4 late night home games for each CU/AZ/BYU which is likely too big of an obligation to cover a full season worth of late night games. 4 Mountain/Pacific Time Zone teams gets you closer (4 OOC games, 6 games between those 4 schools) where you’d only need a few more and coverage might be feasible, but 5 teams is really the sweet spot where no Mtn/Pac TZ school would have more than 3 late night games (some even only 2) and you could mix in a few CTZ teams as late night opponents a couple of times a year to help with coverage/interest as well.
  5. Creative = The CW or Ion Forward Thinking = Apple
  6. You know Texas is a big state right? No one in Austin works for the minimum wage but plenty of people outside of the Texas triangle still do. The State of Texas could raise the minimum wage by $5/hr and it wouldn’t effect Austin in any noticeable way.
  7. That CBS article I posted above seemed to indicate that it was July1/June30 for the PAC 12 (which makes sense as it aligns with the athletic calendar).
  8. This is 100% incorrect. Conference bylaws around exit fees and notice requirements have nothing to do the the GOR. Organizational bylaws are 100% enforceable in court. If you cannot agree in this extremely simple point then there is no point in continuing this discussion.
  9. According to CBS USC/UCLA had to give 2 years notice to avoid penalties https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/usc-ucla-to-leave-pac-12-for-big-ten-in-2024-college-sports-begins-its-latest-seismic-shakeup/ Thursday was the last day for USC and UCLA to inform the Pac-12 of their plans to depart without likely incurring additional financial penalties, sources told Norlander.
  10. The Big 12 GOR ran concurrently with the TV deal through the 24-25 athletic year and had no exit fees or other way out. Texas and Oklahoma granted the Big 12 it’s TV right for the specific timeline which they in turned sold to ESPN/FOX who knew they’d have all 10 schools for the duration of the agreement. The Big 12 bylaws were for 99 years and had an exit fee. This did not prevent anyone from leaving but set rules on how long they had to provide notice and what monetary penalties they would owe in order to leave. These are separate agreements but often get talked about as a single issue.
  11. Part of being in the conference is sharing your rights as part of the collective. The conference would vote on a deal for the 24-25 year and you’d be included in that decision for that year (just not long term) unless they allowed for individual disbursement like the Big 12 has done for tier 3 historically (LHN/PPV).
  12. The Big 12 bylaws were for 99 years. The Big 12 TV deal and GOR was only thru 2024-25. The exit fee would still apply even if the GOR had expired. I’m now going to waste a day trying to read PAC conference rules…
  13. That’s the TV deal/GOR only. The conference exit requirements/fees are a different story.
  14. July 1st was the date they needed to invite new members or have exiting members submit notice. Most conferences require at least 1 years notice. That being said it’s not hard deadline like others have said. Colorado could submit its exit request July 15th and they would just be stuck in the PAC12 for the 24-25 year since they missed the July 1st exit. That obviously could be negotiated but it might cost them some $. Like others have said, not having a deal before July is not a good look. They could continue negotiating their TV deal for months but then Colorado would be required to accept whatever deal is presented for the 24-25 year since they have no other options. All PAC12 schools could be stuck in the conference for a year making only $20 million (and giving $5mil of that back to Comcast) from their streaming only deal with Apple. They’d all be rightfully upset but that’s the possibility they are signing up for by giving the conference extension after extension and defacto locking themselves down for a year with unknown $ by going past July 1 without a TV deal.
  15. Again, 100 times also they are super close to each other (90ish miles like Texas and Baylor) and have played each other in every sport for a long long time. If the Big 12 did something similar and protected the Iowa State/K State game most of the country would have a similar wtf reaction.
  16. People keep saying “should” but like the PAC12 TV deal, it hasn’t happened yet. If negotiating this token carrot into the conference helps put the death blow on the PAC12 the Big12 would be foolish to let this opportunity slip away.
  17. Iowa has played Wisconsin and Minnesota over 100 times each. Penn State hasn’t played anyone in the Big Ten even 50 times. They also are really trying to force the Nebraska/Iowa game to be a thing.
  18. The Big 12 can write out a new bylaw effective July 1, 2024 (after UT/OU leave) that lowers their exit fees and reduces the transition timeline for any members that leave for the SEC/B1G. This would remove a lot of hesitation for Colorado or any P12 school that believes they’ll get an invite from the Big Ten. Now they won’t be able to break the GOR but if they can make an effort to lower their concerns and make the conference more attractive to P12/ACC school who think they are better than they are.
  19. When did Kentucky join the conference? edit: also 9 conference games with 18 teams gives you a good 1-8-8 setup. Rivals: UW/UO, AZ/ASU, BYU/UU, CU/Tech, TCU/BU, UCF/UH, ISU/OkSU, KU/KSU, WVU/Cincy Everyone plays half the conference and their rival each year.
  20. Lots of reasons to make fun of Florida, scheduling is not one of them.
  21. I could see them shrinking the autobids to the top 4 conference champs which makes the byes very clean/important. It opens 2 additional spots for SEC/B1G teams that previously went to the G5/P12 and keeps the ND no bye as an independent agreement in place. This likely gets the SEC/B1G 3 bids each annually which was the goal. I’m not so sure you’ll see a push for 16 after 2 years but it’s not impossible. Going to 16 too quick will dilute the product. No one is going to pay substantially more for those 16v1 games than they currently are now with 12. Assume the 12 team playoff is worth $600 million and a 16 is worth $700 million. With 12 each game is worth on average $50 million, with 16 that drops to less than $44 million and while yes you’ve increased the size of the pie, you’ve also made the road more difficult for your conference champion who has already played an extra game over a team like ND or a 3rd place Ohio State or Tennessee. If both teams playing in the SECCG or B1GCCG are ranked in the top 6 and you know that they both be playing in round 1 of the playoffs in two weeks, it lowers the stakes somewhat which will hurt viewership, but if it’s for a bye…we’ll now have national attention and makes that game have more meaning and no one will rest their starters.
  22. I lived in Richardson for years and worked in academia circles for nearly a decade. My wife took some courses there but other than that no other connections. Yes, tangent from the thread, I’ll drop it.
  23. Pretty much the only one near UTD’s academic profile is UH (last I checked) so I’m just really going to talk about UH here as discussing Tech and Texas State isn’t worth the effort. UH is a very generalized institution trying to be a big state university (despite just being a city). UH offers nearly 300 degrees while UTD (being locally and system focused) is more specialized offering less than 150. If you specifically exclude UH’s bonus point for Law/Med/etc, to try and get a true apples to apples/head to head comparison UTD is better in the vast majority of categories. UTD’s MBA ties with Rice in the rankings ahead of aggy and SMU and only behind UT Austin in this state. UTD engineering is 4th behind UT Austin, Rice, and aggy. UTD has other great targeted programs like Audiology that it is also nationally known for. UH’s best programs are Hospitality, Entrepreneurship, Social Work, and Pharmacy. While their is nothing wrong with those learning paths, I think anyone trying to truly decide which school is academically superior has a pretty open and shut case. UH can offer the more traditional big time-ish college experience compared to UTD, but UTD is a far better academic institution albeit in a more targeted capacity (which is in line with the goals of the UT system). This is also why it’s not an honest statement to claim UTD of going after Texas and aggy rejects. People going to UTD aren’t generally the same applicants looking for the big time college experience. Those go to Tech, UH or out of state to OU, Arkansas, LSU, or Ole Miss if they can’t get it. UTD applicants are most likely looking for the best academic public school option they can find, which doesn’t line up with these same type of students that were being discussed in the previous comment, which is why it’s an insult to them to lump them in with those universities trying to be like UT/aggy. That is not what UTD is doing, it’s trying to be like UC Santa Cruz not UCLA.
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