Told you in the other thread, there was a decent chance of this happening. The B10 will use everyone, that's the beauty of this and continued expansion which I think will happen eventually. You have enough inventory to chop up among many partners...Fox, ESPN, CBS, NBC, BTN and streaming.
Not saying anything wrong with Warren and never have but give him the same credit as Sankey for Texas/OU. Too much from the media saying how shrewd Sankey was etc...nah. He just picked up the phone and was smart enough to say yes when Texas/OU wanted to leave. Same for Warren. I said above this will likely be initiated by USC just like it was by Texas. Tweets from reporters have said as much and that it was initiated by the west coast schools. When that happens just make sure it gets done and you've done your job.
No it's 60%. They upped their stake within the last year IIRC and maybe even have an option for more but not as sure of that.
Oh hey -- who's the user that predicted Pac12 would be jumping ship to b1G for the last year. Oh yeah, this guy.
Delany brings small potatoes RU and Maryland. Warren brings home the bacon with UCLA and USC!!!!
I don’t think he’s done yet either lol. Still put a two year time frame on it for PAC schools like I mentioned above.
I generally don't like to make people eat crow, but the number of people who kept crapping on Warren should get a healthy serving.
What I'm seeing is the west coast teams reaching out. What is his brilliance? Saying yes? Don't think crow is on the menu tonight.
Expansion doesn't change this because USC and UCLA asked to join not the other way around. Also I don't consider this a good move with how crazy the Cal legislature is. Will be a burden/handicap down the road.
You must be fun at parties.
I just want to know when (the revised) 2024 schedule is going to be released.
So do you put the SEC commish in the same boat as Warren since did the same with UT and OU? We want to join the SEC. Ok, we accept you.
Well actually Phillips from the ACC was the one most staunchly opposed for it and wanting to look at college athletics as a whole before looking at the playoffs Warren wanted auto qualifiers for conf champs so he held it up and Kliavkoff would have gone with along with any idea but since it wasn't going to be approved anyway just went along with his other 2 alliance partners.
Not sure why you said Warren did take a stand against it:
I'm not sure what you mean. Warren did vote against expansion because he wanted auto bids for conference champs not just top 6 conf champs (even though most years it lead to the same result). There will be expansion this next go and it won't take a unanimous vote and the B10 and SEC will control how it looks and it may not be as fair as this last proposal which I thought was very fair to everyone. That may be unfortunate for the ACC, PAC12 who voted against the last one.
thanks for the correct info update Wikipedia tripped me up
No problem I use wiki as a source too sometimes but it's not always up to date or correct.
The article I posted said something different. Warren wanted expansion, but not the way ESPN was going about it. It wasn't in the best interest of the B1G. Why would Warren let ESPN (& SEC) hold all the cards? His statement was calculated to show support for expansion, but not until the CFP went out for bid from several networks besides ESPN. It says that much in the article, so why are you thinking otherwise?
I've posted articles about it in the past and I don't want to go back and dig them up with regards to Warren and AQs for champs and the early round playoffs. Early round games outside of the NYD bowls (meaning the ones on campuses/regional sites) would have been new inventory and could have been awarded to any network. That's the point and if you want to view it as a few crumbs what does it matter. It's a few crumbs until it all comes up for bid 2025-26, it's better than nothing for those other networks. Nothing would have changed. The whole expanded package would have still come up for bid in 2025-26. You lose nothing and for the schools it would have been an estimated 400M/yr for a few years and for the other networks a small toe into the playoffs with a chance for more in a few years. The time table and anything that is going to happen now is exactly what would have happened then but just with few extra playoff games on networks likely not named ESPN broadcasting them until 2025-26 when it all came out for bid to everyone.
