If she's paying for a service that live streams content from a bundle channels that includes GSN, Lifetime, ESPN and FS1, she indeed will.

(06-05-2016 12:29 PM)Nebraskafan Wrote:  That writer went to the Big 12 meetings hoping that UCF had a chance. They don't. So he wrote a satire article. VA Tech fans know when he is serious and when he is writing with humor. This is one of his humor writings.

Plus, the author is a Florida Gator. Imagine that - a Gator trolling Seminoles!

(06-06-2016 12:23 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 08:46 AM)JRsec Wrote:  As usual the OP and many others miss the point. The SEC and Big 10 do not stockpile cash with which to purchase top schools. They both distribute cash that they receive from the networks.

The reason that thus far the SEC and Big 10 have not scooped up the major brands of the ACC and Big 12 is because those who pay them have not been willing to concentrate that much power in two conferences, one of which (BTN) initially tried independence and production of its own product.

FOX will now try to lure ESPN properties and ESPN will resist. The Big 10 and SEC will be used as proxies in the battle over Big 12 properties.

So even if Texas and Oklahoma and Florida State and Clemson were clamoring for inclusion in either of the big 2 they wouldn't get it unless one of the two networks was willing to pay for it. Right now FOX might but ESPN would resist and 3 of those four are more under contract to ESPN until the 2026 or longer than Oklahoma is. This is why so much attention is on Oklahoma right now. Their contracts are up first (2024-5).

Right now there is a short window in which only ESPN could move unilaterally to acquire members of the Big 12. How? They are the only network in control of two conferences who could both be utilized to land 8 Big 12 schools. So why haven't they done that? Because only 3, maybe 4 of those schools, are worth the effort.

So, at least for now, realignment is stuck.

But when movement happens again it will be because the Networks are buying rights, not because the conferences are getting greedy. The conferences do nothing without the encouragement and money of the networks.

The PAC if it bankrolls enough is the only conference now that could make its own decisions and moves. But the cost of that game may have passed them by as well.

The only way the networks will give the Pac enough money to make expansion lucrative is if the Longhorns are one of the schools joining.

Wedge they won't give the PAC any money unless they sell a % of their network. They won't even sniff Bevo unless the PAC gets them with their own money and that risk is huge. So with Texas you sell a % of your network or you don't get them and probably not anyone else.

(06-06-2016 08:30 AM)chero23 Wrote:  I've been a fan of this forum, especially about the Big XII possible expansion. After 5 years, I finally became a member.

I understand that Texas runs the show in the Big XII, the reason why A&M, Colorado, Missouri, and Nebraska left.

But couldn't the Big XII allow Texas to leave, and invite FSU, Clemson, and ND?

At that time you have a Big XII network, FSU and ND will bring a lot of money into the mix. Plus, as we all know it, football runs realignment. ND, FSU, and Clemson are strong football teams.

They could, but why would FSU, Clemson, and ND join if Texas wasn't involved?