I still have no idea why people still spout this. It's not even close to being true.
Big Ten, Fox close to huge TV deal
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I still have no idea why people still spout this. It's not even close to being true.
When he calls a game, the mute button is on.A bit too dramatic for my tastes. Just show us the money.
It is possible (and maybe likely) that there a few schools like Oklahoma and Kansas that really want in the B1G but no one wants to take on challenging a GOR in court.
It is also possible that Delany is so smart that he has just orchestrated a situation where in 5 years he has a few chairs still open, the music will be stopping soon, and the B1G can just sit back and see who comes to them because they don't want to be left behind in the $$$ battle.
Teddy Greenstein in Chicago Tribune
Big Ten poised to shift media rights from ESPN to Fox
"Commissioner Jim Delany is personally handling the negotiations for the Big Ten"
Big Ten poised to shift media rights from ESPN to Fox
"Commissioner Jim Delany is personally handling the negotiations for the Big Ten"
Would someone please list our share for the next few years before we start receiving a full share of the Big Ten pie? I know this has been discussed before.
Rutgers had some projections ... but those were just projections based on what was known in 2014.
I don't think you are going to find the answer you're really looking for.
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...s_rutgers_getting_from_the_big_ten_and_w.html
I have said the same thing about the GOR. People here have said that the GOR can be broken etc..I'm not a lawyer so I'm not going to argue that. My thinking has always been these are educational institutions run by generally conservative administrations/BOGs that most likely wouldn't want to get involved in any long legal struggle and the accompanying legal fees. Just let the GORs take their course and expire and if any action were to take place it would be around that time.
That being said, even at that time of the GOR expiration of the B12 or the PAC12 it's still hard to find likely targets or "volunteers". Kansas really is the only one I can think of as realistic. Texas I gave the reasons above and OU to a lesser degree but for the same reason. Now the PAC12 is really outside the box and I can't think of any targets/volunteers there and a coast to coast conference seems tough to pull off. Now in the ACC, I could see a few but their GOR doesn't expire til the mid/late 2020s IIRC.
The money difference (which could be $15mm) is going to put a lot of pressure on some schools. As you said, the term of the ACC GOR goes longer, but we don't know what the fine print of that agreement is.
In addition, this B1G (at least partial) move to Fox puts even more pressure on the ACC, because they need a conference network to close the money gap, but it isn't likely that ESPN is going to start an ACC Network and take ACC content off of ESPN/2/U after they just lost B1G content for those channels.
Yup that's another good point. I've always thought an ACC network was unlikely but now that some B10 content will be moved to Fox, it seems even a tougher hill to climb. I've always thought of the ACC as the most likely place for targets when their GOR expires but outside of that I have a tougher time besides a Kansas. I suppose a Missouri but the B10 already passed them up. I think they're happy in the SEC, unless they wanted to make a move for academic reasons. So in my mind it's pretty much a few schools in the ACC and that's awhile away, at least a handful of years past this short term B10 contract.
QUOTE="mosito, post: 1855857, member: 2646"]They want Texas... And have the money to back it up.....[/QUOTE]
No Texas want's to be the bell cow wherever they are and it is not happening in the BIG.They can continue to lose money on their Longhorn Network(ESPN)and run whats left of that conference in the ground.
No Texas want's to be the bell cow wherever they are and it is not happening in the BIG.They can continue to lose money on their Longhorn Network(ESPN)and run whats left of that conference in the ground.
I just read the NFL deals are set to expire around the time this 6 year deal would. I didn't know that. So at a time when some of the networks will be looking to renew content or possibly add content should they lose a property the B10 will also be on the market. I kind of wonder if by splitting the T1 rights they might not also put each half on a different length contract. A shorter one, like this 6 year one, to come up quicker on whatever the prevailing market conditions are in the nearer future and a longer term one to avoid possible gyrations in the market in the future. A foot on each side so you get some stability but also an opportunity to cash in a bit quicker.
I also saw one poster's concern on premium that we wouldn't be seeing much of the fruit of this new contract since it's such a short length. That we'd still be in our buy in period for most of it except the last couple years and a possible bubble in sports rights may burst. The thing I'd say to that is how often have sports right contracts, specifically mainstream sports, shrunk when they expired. The growth rate may be slower but they usually the end of the last contract becomes the baseline for the new one. Now the elevator clause may be lower but still going up. Plus like I said above maybe they structure 1/2 short term and 1/2 longer term, we don't know. So I still think we'd be doing well financially longer term, not just the last couple years of this shorter contract.
I also saw one poster's concern on premium that we wouldn't be seeing much of the fruit of this new contract since it's such a short length. That we'd still be in our buy in period for most of it except the last couple years and a possible bubble in sports rights may burst. The thing I'd say to that is how often have sports right contracts, specifically mainstream sports, shrunk when they expired. The growth rate may be slower but they usually the end of the last contract becomes the baseline for the new one. Now the elevator clause may be lower but still going up. Plus like I said above maybe they structure 1/2 short term and 1/2 longer term, we don't know. So I still think we'd be doing well financially longer term, not just the last couple years of this shorter contract.
