B1G waiting for those schools to get desperate enough to take a half share in tv rights imo. I’m partially joking, but in all seriousness, why give any of the remaining schools a full share? They have zero leverage.
Yeah maybe....but if PAC is crumbling you do want to take pick of the litter before SEC does. Now that I'm saying that I don't think Stanford with their academic standing would in a million years rather go SEC than B1G so their situation is unique but Oregon....SEC will want them for sure and vice versa.
lol so after decades of the sanctity of the Rose Bowl holding back efforts at a playoff, the Big Ten knifes the Pac 10, likely ushering in future changes that will end the FBS era ***I will delete this post if the Big Ten invites Duke to join***
I literally can't believe it... this happened in like six hours. It feels surreal. What a time to be alive.
Sometimes when I've been enjoying my favorite candy, I think to myself what if there are multiple/infinite timelines and we just happen to be living in one that is absolutely batty.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall in the admin offices at Oregon, Stanford, and Washington tonight.
Zombie Pac 12 and Zombie Big 12 merge; ACC adds Notre Dame; four super conferences Each conference has 4 team playoff where winners then funnel into final 4 to determine national champion
i get it’s all about the $, but it’s inevitable these two are going to play back to back road games, 4 hour flights away from home.
I got really high one night and thought about the idea that maybe we're dead and to cope with our death our brain just keeps us "alive". And then I thought I must be in hell after watching nebraska football recently
It seems certain that negotiations now will extend into August and may be completed after Labor Day. Originally, the Big Ten had been planning to wrap up its rights negotiations at some point in July. The Big Ten was expected to be the first college conference to eclipse $1 billion in media-rights fees annually -- and that was before USC and UCLA said they would join. The Big Ten presidents officially voted to add the two schools tonight. Fox Sports already had reached a deal to carry at least half of the conference’s package, and CBS was viewed as a front-runner to take at least a package of Saturday football games in the 3:30pm ET window. That left Amazon, ESPN and NBC competing for a third package. As late as this morning, Apple and Warner Bros. Discovery were not viewed as credible bidders. That could all change.
the “leftovers” or whatever are going to end up in by far the most entertaining conference which will be on like Netflix or whatever and their fans wont have to pay for cable to get espn and fs1, they’ll watch fun af games, and still have their champ make the playoff
I want the B1G to take Oregon, Stanford, Washington, and Notre Dame now and call it good. SEC can take whoever they want from the rest.