(05-23-2023 03:33 PM)JRsec Wrote:  I tell you what's so damned funny. These issues should have been hashed and rehashed before the additions were made. The initial plan should have included to the total possible schools that the Big 10 was willing to commit to out West. If it was only ever two they should have dropped the concept.

So, we have an addition with no clue as to final assimilation and the perpetual cost of travel.

We have a contract the details of which were never fully ironed out.

We have money lost from the failure to start during the COVID season.

There was the put to sell another 10% of the BTN to cover those losses and the resultant revenue losses which would come from holding less of the BTN than before.

Likely the move for USC and UCLA was more in response to the loss of value in the BTN than to keep up with the SEC. L.A. specifically and California in general was probably the only move that could restore lost BTN revenue.

This has been a massive foul up since the get go for Warren and he didn't act in a vacuum. This means presidents weren't on the same page either.

There needs to be a summit meeting in Chicago to get everyone on the same page before you do anything else.

Poor Petitti, what a mess!

Does the whale spit Jonah and his bud back up on the Pacific beach?

I was always skeptical of the ND angle last summer, but I'm now starting to think that Warren really was going for a home run that included ND. When they didn't bite, it killed most of the deal, but USCLA decided to join anyway.