BREAKING NEWS: The PAC 12 & ESPN TV Deal!

*Amazon wants their Tier 1 rights, but does not want to overpay.
*Cal (UC Regents), Oregon, and Washington are the most hesitant in signing a GoR for a deal with Amazon. Viewership concerns. Oregon is leading the group.
*Amazon will not take over PAC Network, but instead in the short term might partner with ESPN/ABC to produce college sports like they do with NBC for TNF.
 
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Realignment revisited: The beginning of the end for Big East football

How college football's massive realignment shift in 2011 set the stage for Big East football to go under.
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From The article
But there were multiple presidents and athletic directors who wanted to wait and take the Big East to the open market once that window with ESPN closed, believing its entire rights package was worth more than what ESPN was offering.

Multiple sources confirmed that Pitt and Rutgers tried early in the process to get league members to agree to a grant of rights, in which schools relinquish control of their TV rights to the conference. But there was no consensus. With no grant of rights, no expansion plan and no television deal, there was simply nothing to hold the league together.


PAC12 is looking like the old BIG EAST by the day!
 
Trade Louisville, Syracuse, Boston College and Pitt to the Big for a one time payment of 50 mil each. Pay this split between the remaining current ACC schools. Pick up the remaining 10 PAC schools. Trade Miami and Virginia Tech to the SEC for a one time payment of 60 mil each. Paid split between all then 20 ACC members. Tell ND to öööö or get off the pot. If they say yes add ND, Oklahoma State, TCU, Baylor, West Virginia, BYU, Texas Tech, Kansas, Kansas St, Iowa St. If ND says no add Cincinnati, Houston or Tulane.
Sign a new grant of rights.
Each group plays nine games against their region. Two crossovers at each member schools choice. One out of conference game. Form our own playoff for the three conference champs plus a fourth team (highest ranked or whatever tiebreaker).
The college football playoff has already allowed two teams from the same conference to get in so no reason multiple teams can’t get in after our playoff. Then we can tell the SEC we beat each other up too much.
It’s not what I want but it works and is where college football is heading.
There should be a lot of tv money coming in. Don’t know if it would be too diluted.
 
The problem is that ESPN/Disney overpaid for all of the premium products and that same money isn't there for second tier products. The eyeballs just don't show up in the same numbers for PAC-x sports. That's the business of modern collegiate sports, right? Media platforms are still businesses, right?

ESPN is a sinking ship. Disney is a red dumpster fire. Turns out no one with any sense is buying into the corporatocracy in communist clothes with tyrannical messaging. Shocker. But it still works in China, right? Billions of eyeballs there and they all watch what they're told to watch. What better market!?

Been saying it's all a bubble for a long time. Gonna be a lot of bag holders when the music stops.

Speaking of expensive bags, maybe that Colorado AD should start making some phone calls to find out where the money for Prime-time is coming from since ESPN is suddenly budget conscious.

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Buzzilla said:
The problem is that ESPN/Disney overpaid for all of the premium products and that same money isn't there for second tier products. The eyeballs just don't show up in the same numbers for PAC-x sports. That's the business of modern collegiate sports, right? Media platforms are still businesses, right?

ESPN is a sinking ship. Disney is a red dumpster fire. Turns out no one with any sense is buying into the corporatocracy in communist clothes with tyrannical messaging. Shocker. But it still works in China, right? Billions of eyeballs there and they all watch what they're told to watch. What better market!?

Been saying it's all a bubble for a long time. Gonna be a lot of bag holders when the music stops.

Speaking of expensive bags, maybe that Colorado AD should start making some phone calls to find out where the money for Prime-time is coming from since ESPN is suddenly budget conscious.

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I tend to agree.
 
Monty & Jake are talking PAC 12 TV deal. The PAC 12 and ESPN are working to find common ground on a deal for PAC 12 sports distribution. However according to sources ESPN is unwilling to up it's offer for Tier 2 rights. Which leaves the PAC 12 with no broadcast TV distribution partner at this time. Is the PAC 12 Conference and PAC 12 Football stream only going forward? Can ESPN find value in the PAC 12 Conference without Southern California and specifically Los Angeles?

 
Monty at 18:03 says the offer from Amazon (tier 1) & ESPN (Tier 2) is for 25M per school total. Monty ask what school is signing a GOR for 5 years? The PAC (250M per year) would make in 5 years what the BIG is making in 1 year!

We might start seeing PAC teams jump to the BIG12 unless they decide to go 100% streaming to increase their payout, or maybe the PAC12 actually expands before the next media deal is done as they may get more for an expanded league like the BIG12 just saw in their new deal.
 
GTFLETCH said:
Monty & Jake are talking PAC 12 TV deal. The PAC 12 and ESPN are working to find common ground on a deal for PAC 12 sports distribution. However according to sources ESPN is unwilling to up it's offer for Tier 2 rights. Which leaves the PAC 12 with no broadcast TV distribution partner at this time. Is the PAC 12 Conference and PAC 12 Football stream only going forward? Can ESPN find value in the PAC 12 Conference without Southern California and specifically Los Angeles?

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Nobody - and I mean NO BODY - in LA gives two öööös about USC or UCLA football. Sports pecking order in SoCal is . . . .

Lakers, Lakers, Dodgers, Lakers, Clippers, more Lakers, more Dodgers, El Tri (El Tri might be a little higher), Cowboys, then maybe USC, more Lakers, maybe Chargers, maybe UCLA just barely ahead of the LA Galaxy and the Kings.

The whole reason the Regents are letting UCLA move to The Little 14 is because no one went to their games and they couldn't sell öööö, so they wound up in more debt than GT could even dream of. This move fixes that.
 
GTFLETCH said:
Monty at 18:03 says the offer from Amazon (tier 1) & ESPN (Tier 2) is for 25M per school total. Monty ask what school is signing a GOR for 5 years? The PAC (250M per year) would make in 5 years what the BIG is making in 1 year!

We might start seeing PAC teams jump to the BIG12 unless they decide to go 100% streaming to increase their payout, or maybe the PAC12 actually expands before the next media deal is done as they may get more for an expanded league like the BIG12 just saw in their new deal.
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Are you saying the B1G TV deal is more than $100M a year to each school? That doesn’t sound right.
 
coit said:
Are you saying the B1G TV deal is more than $100M a year to each school? That doesn’t sound right.
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What I am say is if the Pac12 signs a deal for 220M-250M per year (that is 22M-25M per school) they (The Pac12) will make during the entire life of the five year deal would be (1.1B or 1.25B) would be equal or very close to what the BIG10 is making in one year of their new deal.
 
GTFLETCH said:
What I am say is if the Pac12 signs a deal for 220M-250M per year (that is 22M-25M per school) they (The Pac12) will make during the entire life of the five year deal would be (1.1B or 1.25B) would be equal or very close to what the BIG10 is making in one year of their new deal.
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So if the B1G signs a 1.25B deal, that would be $75 or more per team every year, is that right? Wow that’s some money.
 
The Monty Show:The PAC 12 Has A Money Problem...Is San Diego State The Solution?

The PAC 12 Conference is in the middle of a scandal that allegedly saw them keep $50 million dollars in over-payments from Comcast. How bad is this for the PAC 12 Networks? What are the long term ramifications for the PAC 12 Conference in it's efforts to get a new TV deal?


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