(07-07-2015 01:04 PM)bullet Wrote: (07-07-2015 12:49 PM)TerryD Wrote: So, ND is going to breach or give up its individual NBC contract it has had since 1991 and has just renewed until 2025 cuz......why??
So...collective bargaining is great, wonderful and wise for colleges vs. TV networks (so says this article) but some folks think it is bad when workers do it vs. employers??? Ok...
Kind of a bizarre OT political point don't you think? I don't recall Chip Brown making any comments on collective bargaining.
Sure he did:
"Why would the Power Five give up the vanity of each league having its own TV deal and commissioner to go back to a world eerily reminiscent of the pre-1984 landmark court ruling that allowed schools and conferences to break away from the NCAA’s hold on TV rights?
Why?
Two huge reasons: 1)
Because that’s where the most money can be made to combat the rising costs of college athletics. 2) Because you could put some geographic sense back into college athletics (more on that in a second).
You think the NFL, which has 32 teams, has it good with $27 billion worth of TV deals through 2022?
Watch the dollar figures soar when the Power Five - the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC plus Notre Dame – throw open the bidding for one TV contract.
“If you wanted to draw up a really inefficient system in terms of leveraging TV dollars, you’d draw up what we currently have,” said one official tied to a Power Five conference.
The naysayers will vow the Power Five will never collectively bargain because you'd have too many egos to navigate, because of antitrust concerns, because Congress would object and because TV contracts in each conference don't currently end at the same time."
That is collective bargaining...everyone banding together to negotiate as one body versus the networks.
So, my point stands and is not "bizarre" at all.