I tend to agree and think the dead weight gets a small slice of the Super Conf pie for a brief period to ease their pain.
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Cable carriage fees are not gone, people still have cable. I have also not yet seen the mass of college football move to Apple TV or Facebook TV.
B1G just grabbed the Los Angeles market for the Big 10 network, which I believe FOX is the major stakeholder on the media side.
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Honestly I think waves may be exactly what happens. They have the two they definitely wanted. Now they can figure out how big of a footprint they want in the west. Two, four, or six teams? And of course which ones.
But nail down the first couple before anyone finds out whatâs going on.
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And the new Big XII members will not have a vote or say in who gets invited, though Iâm sure weâll be kept in the loop. Neither will Texas or OU.
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Not until July 1, 23.
Unless they include UH, etc as a courtesy.
Pity if true. We were included in the Big East decision-making before we were officially in. OTOH maybe for the best since IIRC we favored Tulane.
This ASU fan site seems to like the Big 12 idea.
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Iâm increasing thinking that quote from the FOX Sports CEO on the new B12 commissioner was hinting of a new look, much bigger B12 and Fox doing big things.
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The pac12 can absolutely play the big12 playbook. Simply add teams from the MW and stay put. They can send out feeler to big12 and see which teams bite.
This depends on Oregon, Washington and Stanford, staying in the pac. If that happens then I donât see Colorado, Utah, and Arizona jumping ship and the pac will raid the big12.
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Finest public university in the country
No Big 12 school is going to join a conference that just lost its major media market, its football blue blood, and its basketball blue blood.
That would be a demotion.
No one takes a demotion voluntarily.
Without those two schools and the LA market, the next PAC media deal will suck. Given that, the PAC is in no position to raid any other P5 conference.
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Iâm with you right up until that last sentence. They need more than just keeping those teams. (For how long anyway?) At minimum they have to snag BYU.
Those Left Coast PAC-12 schools will NEEEEEVER do that.
BYU is literally the one school that they will NEEEEEVER invite, for obvious ideological reasons.
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Just read an Arizona St. article.
Like Arizona they think moving to Big 12 will happen.
Neither school seems to think The PAC 12 will survive.
Having Utah, BYU, and Colorado gives them opponents not that far away, and they already play The Utes and Buffaloes. And this year ASU plays BYU in Tempe.
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The pieces left in the pac12 are still worth more than big12 schools. Not even close. Ultimately sh$T runs downhill, letâs see how this shakes out.
At some point, last year, some in this board were saying the AAC was going to raid the big12 after OU & UT left.
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I concur. Step 1 - Secure USC. Step 2 - See if you can lure ND using USC to entice. Step 3 - See what ND decides and fill in to 18 or 20 (or more) with the best quality options available. Step 4 - Profit.
Iâm sure they made assurances to USC and UCLA that they wonât remain alone on that coast.
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I was more optimistic about that back before it was announced that Washington and Oregon werenât following the LA schools.
Now the PAC may just stay at 10.
But I can tell you this much. NO P5 school is going to look their way.
Without LA, their next media deal will be CRAP!!!
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This is not a vacuum. Its more like river poker. There so many pieces combined and both opponents can play a portion of the other guy in the middle.