Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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He is a different breed for sure. Hope Campbell is the same way. We can't pay as much as many programs, but if you win we'll give you total control. And it just doesn't take as much money to be happy in small-town midwest anyway, especially when all you want to do is coach and compete.
Yeah that’s essentially what it entailed. That and ESPN didn’t do anything wrong.
JFC ESPN. If the idiotic plan to try to "entice" the AAC to "accept" the Big 12 teams doesn't prove that ESPN is just filled with absolute ******* morons, this letter ought to seal it.
"Dear Bob, because you have not destroyed your legal standing by naming names in public, that means you have no proof and we probably didn't do anything wrong. Please stop emotionally assaulting us or we will file a lawsuit for over one trillion dollars."
"Dear Bob, because you have not destroyed your legal standing by naming names in public, that means you have no proof and we probably didn't do anything wrong. Please stop emotionally assaulting us or we will file a lawsuit for over one trillion dollars."
I really doubt it, the league cannot stop OU and UT from leaving the conference. What the lawsuit does is send both them and ESPN a message.
To OU and UT the message is simple, you did not inform the league within 24 hours that you had been contacted by the SEC. So you are paying the full leaving price, there will no negating that number down. I also believe that once both schools give their notice to leave, which they did this week, the league has to let them leave in 18 months, so the clock is ticking. But I think I saw that both OU and UT can no longer get a part of any post season money that they earn, that all goes to the conference and then the other remaining teams, so should be more money there.
To ESPN the message is clear, you tried to destroy the league, so we do not want to hear about reducing the payout to the league after OU and UT leave. You will continue to pay the rights you said you would until 2025 even when OU and UT are no longer in the league after 2023.
So OU and UT pay the buy out, and stay for 18 more months that gets up to the 21/22 seasons and 22/23 seasons, then they leave to the SEC, and the league continue to collect their rights and give it to the other 8 conference schools.
This buys the league schools time to find out what the Big 10 and Pac 12 are going to do, plus money if this whole thing goes to crap and we are outside looking in at a P5 conference.
The conference is dead. It’s just a matter of when, not if.
Lol, blocked the bottom ad, which was an ESPN ad, and the top corner ad popped up with an ESPN ad.
Texas and Oklahoma in 10 years after CFB implodes as a whole..
I wonder who Kim Mulkey is close to at ESPN? Departing after a 21 year run at Baylor seems to make more sense now. If you can't beat them collude to have them join you I guess.
How about Steve Sarkisan? Took the job not that long ago. There is a 0% chance he didn’t know what was going on.
The Big 12 is dead folks. ISU as we know it may be dead as well. Eventually, CFB will be dead as we know it too.
IMO the ESPN conspiracy with Texas/OU to SEC is part of ESPN's plan to improve the ACC deal for Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina AND more importantly entice Notre Dame to the ACC and away from NBC and being an independent.
In the last year of the Big12 contract with ESPN and Fox- the Big 12 was going to make around $450M to distribute to schools. Based on what I have read, most media consultants expected that the Big12, Pac12 and Big10 could expect somewhere between 40-60% increases in their new rights agreements. So use the midpoint of 50%, the Big12 expectation would be an average of around $775M annually over a 10 year deal. Not sure what the FOX/ESPN split is of the Big12 media rights- but any ESPN money not spent on the Big12 conference can be used to improve the ACC Network deal and increase SEC payouts.
This seems more likely to come from Texas:Texas and Oklahoma in 10 years after CFB implodes as a whole..
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