I used to always look for his columns in The Big Peach
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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KidSilverhair
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Wilner mailbag
Hotline mailbag: Options if the Pac-12 raids the Big 12, an ACC Network deal and more
Expect Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff to get creative with revenue streams.www.ksl.com
Good lord, nothing is more pretentious and egotistical than referring to yourself as “we” when you’re writing a column. Like my grandad would say, “Who’s ‘we’? You and the mouse in your pocket?”
Things have been thrown up here with less logic! If you could guarantee the money before any of the ACC big dogs leave for the BIG or SEC, it might work. What a media colossus.
I honestly don't hate that setup. As CYTUTT said above, you would have to guarantee the money.
Now obviously this would never happen, but if the 3 conferences merged, wouldn't that void any GOR/exit fees for every school?
Funny. As a kid I would hear something similar; “Who’s we, do you have a turd in your pocket?”
On paper (with zero awareness of details) I could get behind that structure/alignment of schools.
As long as you don't factor in money, which is what this is all about, it's a great idea. Unfortunately the per school payout would be less than what the Big XII would be making on its own. This seems pretty illogical.
Drew has found his sweet spot IMO. Heck of a coach a fan base that isn't all that demanding and a good paycheck. He consistently has a top 15 team if not better why leave? The Baylor A.D. did a excellent job of letting him grow into the job, hell we all used to make fun of his time out usage and he has had more tourney success than ISU IMO.
Wilner mailbag
Hotline mailbag: Options if the Pac-12 raids the Big 12, an ACC Network deal and more
Expect Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff to get creative with revenue streams.
He hasn't accepted that his conference is dead yet.
I'm skeptical of any "merger" type realignment because naturally every conference has x schools that earn below the conference average. The Big10 & SEC have the ability to go big game hunting. But if there is a power 3 or 4, the only way those conferences can grow their average revenue is by poaching upper echelon schools from the other P5 conference whose value is slightly below the Big10/SEC average AND/OR drop schools who media value is at the bottom of their P5 conference.
The one thing about a massive media rights group is that a handful of $20M revenue schools in a 36 team conference would dilute average revenue minimally. The other thing is a streaming platform like Amazon, Apple+, Paramount+ or Netflix might value 36 schools because it allows for geographic breadth and if platform revenue is derived from more than live sports, more schools might generate a revenue multiplier beyond advertising revenue and carriage fees.
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There's no way that happens, but I love that Midwest division.
KidSilverhair
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I'm not entirely convinced of that. Set up a multi tiered playoff and the $$$ become very interesting. Also, the sheer odds with the CFP begin to play out. Not to mention voting strength. I can see a super conference like this being the end of the B1G and SEC as we know it. Sure, the strength of those two conferences will survive, but the weakness will purge. And, let's not forget the enormous publicity having covered the entire country. I think something like this would surely tap the brakes of the B1G and SEC. If for no other reason than to dilute their media partners.
I don't disagree, but there are programs shown in that 36 team alliance that know they'll eventually get invites to the B1G/SEC. And maybe that doesn't matter but programs like UDub, UO, UNC, UVa, Clemson, Miami, I would assume would use their influence, if they have any, to stay put until they can jump.
Completely agree with you, however, I feel the time period of contract disparity will quickly close. Thus, encouraging the model to be more durable. That's the entire country, geographically overlapping the SEC and B1G and the lions share of the product. Sure would make things interesting.
