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  1. "ESPN, Fox and CBS all put in last-minute bids for packages of Pac-12 games. But the bids all came in way lower than the conference wanted. How low? Commissioner George Kliavkoff only presented the conference's presidents with Apple TV's bid last week. Fox's bid was for a package of just 13 football games, for which it said it would pay around $35-$40 million per year. Fox's bid, essentially, was for what it considered part of the conference's "B" package. ESPN had offered a significant package to the conference more than a year ago -- one that the conference's university presidents rejected. ESPN ended up cutting a deal with the Big 12, and while it remained involved with the Pac-12, it only put in a small bid for Pac-12 rights within the past few weeks. CBS also engaged with the Pac-12 over the past couple of weeks, but it only put forward a bid for a handful of basketball games -- around five in total. Sources had expected ESPN and Amazon to share the Pac-12's "A" package. But as it turned out, Amazon never submitted a bid. Neither did NBC. The delay from last year, when ESPN, Fox and CBS were willing to do a deal, to last week, when all three put forth small bids, was devastating to the Pac-12. A changing media landscape -- with shrinking subscriber numbers and employee layoffs -- caused the networks to be much more disciplined in where to spend their money than they have in the past. Similarly, Wall Street hit the streamers hard as shares fell once bankers started prioritizing profits over subscriber growth and caused deep-pocketed companies like Amazon and Apple to also become more disciplined in how much they spend on sports rights...." https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/SB-Blogs/Newsletter-Media/2023/08/07.aspx
  2. Again, what difference does 7 in 15 matter vs. 7 in 14? And if you let Iowa be the only one with 3, does anyone really care that it is 6 in 14 for them instead of 7 in 14? Makes scheduling a little trickier, but not much.
  3. With their debt, they probably ought to join WSU and OSU for a few years to get the basketball credits.
  4. Good decision. Besides the difficulty in finding someone to pay for them, they need to sit down and figure out a lot of stuff out with 4 new schools this year and 4 the next.
  5. I guess you don't do Big 10. Iowa-Minnesota has been played 116 times. Except for war back to the double naughts every year. The whole Iowa-Minnesota-Wisconsin trio is a big group of rivalries. Nebraska-Iowa is just because nobody cares about Nebraska in the Big 10. Kind of the Mizzou of the Big 10, but not as bad.
  6. Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan St. will fight tooth and nail. I don't think Illinois and Purdue really care that much, but the schools are close. Is 2-7 really much different from 1-8? You get everyone 7 in 15 years instead of 7 in 14. Iowa is the only school with 3 fixed games-Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska. Maybe they are willing to give up Wisconsin.
  7. all for one and one for all!!! And Clownzano and Clowndel really think all 9 were committed Friday morning? Maybe the Oregon St. president thought they were, but its obvious UW, Oregon and Arizona all were on their way out and weren't about to sign any deal.
  8. Look at the Big 10+1. 8 game schedule and sometimes teams didn't get Ohio St. and Michigan. Those teams competed for the title. Northwestern won without playing either. One year there was a basically .500 Purdue team that would have won if they simply had beaten Penn St. One year Iowa and Ohio St. were both 8-0 in conference. And that was when you only skipped 2 of the other 10 teams. The tiebreaks will be a mess. Maybe if the SEC and Big 10 get big enough, they can merge and split into 12 team conferences. USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Missouri, Arkansas, LSU and one other in our 12 team western group. Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan St., Ohio St., Penn St., Rutgers in the northern group. Maryland and the rest of the SEC in the southeastern group.
  9. With the SEC, when Florida was up in basketball, they made sure UK and Florida played twice. UK and Tennessee, who were each other's biggest rivals, only played once. UK rarely won in Knoxville, except the years they won the NCAA. It was about TV matchups.
  10. Well its going to be who beat the 6th place team by more points.
  11. I like divisions, but once you get over 14, you might as well have separate leagues if you have divisions. And a lot of games teams like get thrown by the wayside. So in this 16-18 team conference world, divisions are gone.
  12. Its unreal how big the fantasy football NFL fanbase has become. I think Yormack is trying to tap into the gambling fanbase.
  13. The pros are all so good and talented. That takes some of the exciting plays away. The talent gap in college and the mistakes create some of the exciting plays. If you look at a game between professional chess players, its really well played. But all of the beautiful combinations are usually in the notes. They get countered. if there is a little more of a gap, you see the beautiful combinations actually on the board.
  14. I remember a '77 Bengals-Steeler game. Next to last game of the season. By tiebreaks, Bengals needed to win by 8 or more to make the playoffs. Game was played on an ice sheet at Riverfront. Bengals won by 10. After the game they were jumping up and down and just thrilled. I remember thinking, "this feels like a college game." I don't recall ever seeing so much excitement by a pro team again. BTW, the Bengals came out flat the next week and got stomped by the Oilers, so the Steelers still made the playoffs.
  15. Forde's daughter is an athlete at Stanford.
  16. Uh, this has been true for the last 60 years, since DKR was a young coach.
  17. It is. Many of them really like playing.
  18. Well we won't have to play Oklahoma St.!!! One thing you won't like is that they don't protect players. Late hits and cheap shots are often ignored. Targeting will still be a crap shoot. They never call holding on running plays, but do sometimes call it on pass plays.
  19. What they don't mention in that article is that the season they announced, they were getting hit by the S-E-C, S-E-C chant in every SWC stadium. They went 1-7 in conference and only beat just back from the dead SMU.
  20. Looking at the new Window Cougar board and they seem to understand their fate.
  21. https://www.on3.com/news/what-should-the-sec-do-next-administrators-weigh-in-after-latest-big-ten-big-12-expansion/ What is the SEC to do? In this interview with 3 SEC administrators (ADs?) they don't seem to be in any hurry. But the top candidates are FSU and Clemson.
  22. It just means more! Its really a better fit for our athletics. Big 10 is a horrible fit. We don't have hockey and wrestling and they aren't that good at spring sports.
  23. Well if you throw in softball, that makes it 43-5.
  24. Read somewhere that MLS didn't even have 900k. If true, no way the Pac gets 1.7 million.
  25. Sounds like Mizzou. They stayed in the union, but sued them!!! And actually, Missouri was one of the 13 stars on the Confederate flag. There was a rump secession legislature. Same with Kentucky.
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