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I have to agree with this. 30 years ago the Oilers rookie initiation consisted of a bad hair cut. I remember laughing at Bucky Richardson's hair. If you're being coerced into bad haircuts there's gonna be pics.

So AAU means All Anal University?

Nobody is going to vote on a deal that hasn't been presented.

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If the PACX really sent out the contract framework right before a FOUR day weekend, it would be because the deal sucks. In politics you deliver bad news on Friday and good news on Monday or Tuesday. If the unemployment rate is going up, you announce it on Friday. Or If you ever had a daughter try out for cheerleader, the tryouts usually conclude during the week before spring break. The the administration will post who made the squad on Friday, then run out the door. They don't want to deal with any angry mom's and suicidal daughters until they've had a week to chill. Same here, if the PACX deal sucks, give it to the schools on Friday June 30th, the schools will have to chew on it at least until Wednesday.

The Big12 finalizing some Thursday and Friday night slots is just another nail in the PACX coffin. Their "forward thinking" just got outplayed. There's also this previously posted tweet in which Yormark thanks the teams at Endeavor and Proskaeur. I guess these are companies specializing in contract negotiations and most of all, fine print details. I've wondered how conference offices could possibly handle all the infinitesimal details of a 6 year billiondy dollar deal, looks like you outsource that crap.

Here, since you're to lazy, let me google it for you. Accelerated: See Foward Thinking Forward Thinking: See Creative Creative: See Accelerated That should help clear the air.

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Conference deals always Include a minimum number of good appearances for even the worst school. So Oregon state and Washington state get more exposure than they ought and therefore UO and UW have a few less than they ought. It's a reasonable question to ask, "What's the linear minimum in the BIG12?" On the surface you might think it would be identical to the other NEW12 members, then you might think, it might be identical but wouldn't the number of guaranteed linear appearances go down with multiple PACX teams moving over? Well a great thing about coming to the Big12 with the top 6 schools is this: Let's say the PACX deal is a 2linear-3streaming mix. If 6 schools come over BOTH of those linear spots come with them and you don't have to split them with CALSTAN and OST & WSU. So their linear appearances improves. If the PACX claim that they OWN the Saturday late night time slots are true, then there's 14 Saturday night time slots per season for the BIG12 WEST to have all to themselves. They'll have three rivalry games to put in there. UOvsUW, BYU vs UU, AST vs UA. Maybe a non-con game or two vs an SEC,ACC or B1G team. Then your other late night games will come from the west of the rockies teams that travel out west.

The PAC12 already has a streaming problem. Their linear to streaming last season was about 66/33. Fifteen of their first 32 games were streamed, thats nearly 50%. During conference play the PAC12 network usually had 2 gamed. That's 2 out of 6 games or 33%. With the fact the BIG12 locked up most of the remaining time slots the PACX at best will have 3 linear games a week. That's a 60/40 split and only if they stay at ten teams which I'm pretty sure they will. I believe the PACX won't go lower than a 60/40 split and won't take less than 27mill guaranteed. And if they do some BS of $23mill guaranteed, but if we can show just X number of new subscribers you'll all get 7 million a year more, then the 6 schools with options will leave.

So in edition to the usual junk mail asking for donations to phacility improvements, NIL collectives and season ticket renewals and upgrades, PACX fans gonna get solicitations badgering fans about their Applezon streaming subscription. 🙄

1. I love deadlines. I especially enjoy the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. 2. With all this goal post moving by the PACX, I keep thinking, "Two more weeks to flatten the deal."

John Conzano article from Sept 22, 2022. His PACX analysis was more accurate and more objective back then. It's kind of funny to go back in time to read some of his stuff. https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-amazons-nfl-win-creates-moment Conzano wrote this about pending Big12 contract negotiations. On Sept 8,2022. https://www.johncanzano.com/p/canzano-latest-big-12-expansion-jab "I’m fascinated by the 180-degree difference in strategy between Yormark and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff. Outside of Kliavkoff’s spicy Media Day appearance in July, he’s remained silent. In fact, the Pac-12 commissioner was in Atlanta for the Oregon-Georgia game and didn’t do interviews. Presumably because the Pac-12 is amid a media-rights negotiation. On the same day, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey conducted a lengthy impromptu news conference in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium press box. The Big 12’s Yormark was also asked on Wednesday about his conference’s media rights negotiations. There’s some confusion about whether the Big 12 is — or isn’t — in the exclusive negotiating window. “That process has started,” Yormark told reporters. “I met with ESPN last week... I’ll be meeting with FOX in the next week... My gut tells me that both FOX and ESPN would like to (negotiate early) but I’ll know for sure... in the next week.” Some interesting semantics at play here. I bounced Yormark’s quote off two TV-industry insiders. They agreed that it sounds like all Yormark has is an indication from ESPN that they’d like to talk outside the exclusive-negotiating window. Per the contract, the Big 12 can only talk with ESPN and FOX at this point. The networks like it that way, too. If they’re not in an exclusive, 30-day negotiating window, there’s no ticking clock." Turns out BY was INDEED involved in contract negotiations and the BIG12 getting their deal done early may be the thing that kills the PACX.

Big18 Three Divisions WEST: UW, UA, AST, UU, UO, BYU NORTH: KST, CINCY, WVU, IST, CU, UK SOUTH: TECH, OKST, TCU, BU, UH, UCF. 9 conference games. You play five divisional games, play one North school at home and one on the road, one West school at home and one on the road. So in the six years of the contract you'll play all 6 North schools once at home and once on the road and all 6 West schools once at home and once on the road.

No way schools with options accept this deal.

That's 24mill over a 6 year contract. You can't leave 24mill on the table, of course they'd jump for 24 million

This is the way. The best contract the PACX could possibly put together is a 6yr 1.8 billion dollar deal. That comes out to 30mill a year per school. Adding schools dilutes that revenue. Not only does SDSU not add value they take slice of the pie and worse, they get some of the extremely limited linear time slots. IF the PACX were to get a 6yr, 1.8bill dollar deal with a 60/40 split linear to streaming deal and you add two schools, then each school would get 25mill a year and the TV split would drop to 50/50. There's no way the current PACX would go for that.

If I referenced one of the WVU dudes as, 'The one with black lung disease" it wouldn't help delineate who I was talking about.

WSU press release on how effed up their budget is. Nearly 12mill in debt. Can't imagine what they'll do if the PACX implodes and they're in WAC. https://news.wsu.edu/news/2023/06/02/wsu-athletics-addresses-11-5-million-budget-deficit/

WVU Super Fan and pod caster "Gold & Blue Dude" is the one who died a couple of months ago.

Kirk Schulz, June 9th, 2023. "At least the projections that I have seen, umm, I'm not sure if it will be a lot larger than we saw in the past, shouldn't be a lot smaller than we saw in the past, it may be fairly flat. But when we add the football playoff dollars on to that we should see a nice bump in revenue. So if we can control expenses then all the sudden you, OK, Now we actually have additional dollars coming in that can be strategically allocated including debt reduction, building up a reserve fund and some of those kinds of things."

You've got to watch this two minute clip from the local WSU news station. At the very start, the sports anchor states that the WSU'S Athetic department is $12,000,000 in debt!! Then at the 1:23 mark there's a Kirk Schulz clip from his Friday sh!t show press conference. Remember as you watch is that he is one of the PACX presidents on the PACX board and he has NO idea what the new media rights deal will come in at.

Month old report from WSU area TV station. 1:29 mark, WSU's budget from last season was approved with a 1,000,000 shortfall. They were counting on a $40,000,000 PAC12 payout in 2023 and thought they'd still be a million short, of course what they were doing is borrowing money from the future super good deal they thought the PACX would land in the near future. But as we all now know the $40mill payout is now $36mill due to the Comcast refund. And they've borrowed a million from the future PACX deal that ain't gonna be so good. So their 2023 athletic budget is $5,000,000 in the hole. And I'd bet anything that they WERE planning to overspend by at least a million this next year with the rational that "We borrowed money from the future once, lets do it again."

At least Kirk Schulz has been opening up about their pending financial doom. About a month ago he was the first PACX mouthpiece to issue an edict to the athletic department to stop all new spending. In the last week UW began rumbling about a shortfall greater than the Comcast refund. As of now we don't know if any other PACX schools were spending money as if they'd be making 40mill a year in 2024.