If that kind of craziness is happening, she'll be asking you
Big 12 Conference Realignment
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If that kind of craziness is happening, she'll be asking you
The B1G isn't stupid. They talk up their network while negotiating a TV deal across three linear networks to include their most coveted time slots. Big Ten Network will exist for the conference's "day old bread" type of content and teams. And they are fine with it.
How do bowl/conference tie-ups impact conference restructuring? Do expanded play-off schemes do away with bowl/conference tie-ups? If not, I can't even imagine what the SEC would do to take the PAC12's slot in the Rose Bowl and I don't think we would ever see a "badder" junkyard dog than the B1G protecting theirs. Would it be worth picking up the best of the rest of PAC12 schools if the Rose Bowl slot came with them?
I dont think bowl tie ins move the needle at all when it comes to conference realignment. With the expanded playoff they will even be less important.
The only thing that moves the needle in conference alignment is media dollars. Literally the only reason any of this happened in the first place.
I believe the conference’s deals and bowl affiliations stay intact as long as the conference exists. That’s why if the PAC gets raided by the B12, the remaining schools are far more likely to backfill and continue on as the PAC than disband the conference and join the MWC.
The old Big East stumbled along as a BCS conference for a few years after the ACC gutted it. Eventually their deals were up and weren’t renewed. That’s likely what would happen with the PAC.
The only way to assume the PAC’s Bowl agreements would be to join the PAC. Eventually the deal will be up, and that’s when the SEC or whomever else can make a push to get that spot.
Keep seeing rumors about Cal, Stanford, WU, Oregon to the ACC?
How in the holy hell does that make any sense? Washington to Florida State is one mother ****** of a road trip
How in the holy hell does that make any sense? Washington to Florida State is one mother ****** of a road trip
The only sense it makes is that it would potentially reopen negotiations for a TV contract for the ACC. But, that may also give Clemson and FSU an opportunity to bolt if they won't sign the deal. It's a big risk fro the ACC and for the PAC schools that would presumably need to blow up the PAC before setting up the TV contracts with the ACC.
Surly, the P12 would screw us over in a heartbeat. That is the main thing to remember.
I actually think it makes plenty of sense and is pretty much the only hope for either conference and/or its members to survive all this. An "American Coastal Conference" adding those schools to the current ACC would be a decent cultural fit as many share the same academic snobbery. And a conference with the likes of Oregon, Clemson, Washington, FSU, UNC, Miami, Stanford, Duke, GT, etc. wouldn't be a horrible lineup. Obviously ND would be the golden goose but I don't ever see that happening, and they'd still likely get raided once the GoR is up, but I think it'd be a pretty good hail mary.
It's amazing to me the lengths that the snobby elitists out west will go to to avoid having to play an away game in gasp... middle America.
The Big 12 is clearly the best play. Everyone can see it. They just need to get over themselves already.
I think the GOR would be a roadblock. If it opens up the GOR, I could see 8-10 ACC schools being firmly against it. If the GOR remains in place, I can't see WAOR signing on to a deal that runs almost through the B10/B12's next (not the ones they signed last year) deals.
There's another theory out there that there might not be all that much more network money available right now at the SEC/B10 level. That could explain why the B10 hasn't finished off the PAC by taking WAOR. The networks might be more agreeable to paying certain schools in the B12/ACC for the next 7-12 years.
The RSNs are at the brink of BK.
ESPN is talking about "must haves" vs "nice to haves"
The streamers may be the future, but they don't seem like the present
This seems plausible.
I think many are looking at what has happened with MLB and their regional networks and realized that it may not be the wisest thing in the world to continue these ridiculous contracts.
Oregon always takes the Oregon trail when the can. Duh.
