Wait a minute. Texas And Oklahoma left the Big 12?!
Report: OU & Texas reach out to join SEC
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We talked here last week about ESPN managing this cabal. But collusion to destroy a contract partner is serious law. And if true, their tactics have been something less than thoughtful, actually quite sophomoric.
If the B12 now sues ESPN, the discovery process will be for the ages, won't it. The financial ramifications here are deep and wide. They affect not only the individual schools in the hundreds of millions but also cities, states, businesses, and the like.
It will be interesting to see if the SEC vote happens today or is tabled.
If the B12 now sues ESPN, the discovery process will be for the ages, won't it. The financial ramifications here are deep and wide. They affect not only the individual schools in the hundreds of millions but also cities, states, businesses, and the like.
It will be interesting to see if the SEC vote happens today or is tabled.
Fair enough, but this gets back to my central question...is it good for FOX if we occupy the Pac or B1G? Or they don't care?
Frank the Tank has always been an interesting blog to follow in terms of conference realignment. He is Big Ten centric, but has a pretty good feel over the years as to how it often plays out. His latest post:
frankthetank.org
The Art of Deception: Big 12 vs. ESPN
For most conference realignment moves, the timing may often be surprising, but the logic behind them makes sense. The SEC taking Texas and Oklahoma is a perfect example: the move came out of nowher…
frankthetank.org
You know what that screams of? The PAC 12 seeing what’s going on between the SEC, ESPN, Big 12, the cease and desist, and the potential impending lawsuits, and the Pac 12 saying “um, yeah - we’re going to wait until all of this dies down and the Big 12 truly is dead before we do our poaching”.
As someone said, if the PAC 12 doesn’t expand east, they’re dead in the future of college sports.
Yeh and countless people spent all week at the B12 media conference and no one breathed a word of TX and OK leaving. Unless your ear is in that specific room, don't expect an ounce of discussion ... yet.
The thing is that I don't think the people actually running the PAC12 really care if sports are greatly de-emphasized. If the president of Stanford woke up tomorrow and never had to go to another football fundraiser, do you think he'd be upset about it all?
Notre Dame is going to stay Independent, and if they don’t, they’ll go ACC.
OR - it could be the Pac12 is in on the eff ESPN bus with everyone else, and is pushing the message that there are no communications or desire for teams. That would make the ESPN-SEC move much more of an independent interference move, as opposed to making it look like this stuff happens all the time.
No way we can really know any of what is actually going on. Unless you have Kliavkoff and Bowlsby's phones bugged lol.
Yes, you are going to hear nothing publicly after yesterday's events. "Sources" are going to become extremely careful about who they are talking to and what they are telling them.
That's the multi-million dollar question, but I can definitely say that not doing anything puts them well behind in the race, so I don't think they can afford that, and we're one of the best options available for padding one of their existing "properties".
Perhaps not. But if he decides to cancel all Stanford sports tomorrow, how would that negatively impact the university?
In short, the Stanford president will be playing this game whether he wants to or not. It’s a part of the job.
Summary (which has already been posted ad nauseam): B12 > AAC, B12 GOR buys time, P5's not ready for B12 remains ... yet, but will absorb depending on outcome of litigation, GOR, and ongoing content assessment for next 2 years (benefitting ISU).Frank the Tank has always been an interesting blog to follow in terms of conference realignment. He is Big Ten centric, but has a pretty good feel over the years as to how it often plays out. His latest post:
The Art of Deception: Big 12 vs. ESPN
For most conference realignment moves, the timing may often be surprising, but the logic behind them makes sense. The SEC taking Texas and Oklahoma is a perfect example: the move came out of nowher…
