Boy…. I hate to see this happening to the B1G. Their own greed now haunting them. What a shame.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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The sticking point from what I have heard isn’t solved by adding schools is that the networks want the top teams playing in those prime time spots and those teams (mainly Michigan) do not want that.
I still laugh that they have maintained their JV and Varsity divisions (west and east). How a Michigan or Penn St has not kicked in the door of the commissioner on that is beyond me. There are many years the 3rd best team in East could have been the west champion. It hurts the product in my opinion.
That’s already going away in 2024. It had been talked about for the past couple years anyways by the East teams.
What exactly is their reason for not wanting to play November night games? All the article referenced was health, recovery, and campus logistics
I can only speak to the Michigan side of things but it largely has to do with tradition. Michigan didn’t even have permanent lights in the stadium until 2011 (which insanely enough espn paid for) and it’s because Bo hated night games. Now personally I want to see the school distance themselves from Bo as much as possible and there have been like a dozen home night games since then but the weather is a major factor in November. It can get stupid cold, as you all know, at night which has a huge effect on the game. For teams that want to win a championship I get not wanting the extra variable and if one of those games was streaming I would also understand hating it.
"Campus logistics" = we don't want to deal with people drinking all day for a 7:00/8:00 start, then figuring out how to get them out of our landlocked stadium area afterward.
Meh they would get used to it. They are kind of fun in their own way. So how was that schemy dude related to Bo son or grandson?
Son. Dude should never have been hired but because of harbaugh the school won’t distance themself from Bo. One of the only things that I hate about harbaugh is his undying devotion towards Bo.
Not surprising info for those in this thread… the “completely out” part is interesting to me.
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McMurphy: ESPN/PAC aren’t talking
Dellwnger: A PAC intern was on the phone with ESPN trying to unlock their + account for two hours yesterday so McMurphy is wrong
Waiting for Altimore to weigh in on how Arizona State opening a satellite building in LA signals a major PAC TV deal is imminent.
My guess is this is all down to semantics.
Neither party has essentially said we are out or don't want to work with you, period.
More that the offer on the table from either side is currently not acceptable and their is currently no avenue to get a deal that both sides accept.
The sides are technically still talking, but those talks are currently at a dead end.
I read it as ESPN has given the PAC10 their final offer which is well below what the Gerorge K needs to present to the AD to keep the conference together. Geroge K and PAC10 office is scrambling to find alternative ways to get additional money Apple+, Amazon. Ion added on to the ESPN offer to get the GOR signed for a few more years to survive.
Essentially the ESPN just stopped responding to alternative offers from the PAC10 thus the talks are finished from their perspective.
That’s a really big backtrack from Dellenger (though he still hedged) from his and Nicole Auerbach’s reports last week refuting Dodd saying ESPN/PAC 12 talks were dead
Probably high as they can just wash their hands of the PAC10 if the corner schools go to the Big 12 and get their programming at a lower rate.
Plus Yormark already has it in the ESPN contract that adding P5 schools will raise the payment. The Fox contract doesn't have that clause and would need to be renegotiated to add money for more schools.
