(04-26-2016 11:13 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Best case scenario for the Big Ten- there will be 30 games on OTA. Basically the games that had been on ABC+ESPN. But you are seriously delusional if you think those other 20-25 ESPN 2/u/news games are going to be shown OTA.

Best case scenario (measured by OTA games) would be 1 game a week on Big Fox, (1 on FS1), 10 games on CBS, 10 NBC and probably a few on NBC-SN, or maybe even sublicensed back to ESPN. (There are weeks when NBC and I think CBS have other things they contractually HAVE to show OTA--CBS has golf, NBC soccer contracts). That's, just over 30 games so yeah.

(04-26-2016 11:47 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-26-2016 11:15 PM)Merrick Wrote:  

(04-26-2016 08:26 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  No offense to the last two posters (and fans of B10 and ACC schools) but the amount of money being tossed around to schools in the P5 vs. the scraps the G5 schools receive sickens me. Frankly I fail to see how this all lives up to the mission statement of the NCAA:

"Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount".

I have basically had to give up any dream of my alma mater competing in the two revenue sports. Seriously... I don't watch college athletics anymore... the WWE is more on the up and up in my eyes.

Nobody made a whimper when the big corporations lobbied Congress for perks and favors that ran independent and Mom & Pop industries out of business. They got those 50% reductions in local property taxes, got to keep the State portion of sales taxes until the overhead was paid on their buildings, and got reductions on tariffs so that they could locate the factories that made their cheap crap overseas. And not one *^%$ing whimper of protest from the American citizens! Mom & Pop paid all of their taxes. They weren't bad business people. They just didn't get 13 plus points of advantages before they even opened their doors like the corporate Big Box stores did.

Now that corporate America has essentially taken over an under valued but much loved industry called college football, and have done so by waiving wads of cash around so that they could restructure the product and cull the inventory they didn't want (the G5) now we have words of protest coming from all directions, and rightly so! But where was your voice when the bigger issues affecting the economy's tax structure, and the livelihood of millions of middle class Americans was suffering exactly the same kind of takeover?

I guess it took somebody screwing up your favorite school or their sports team to open your eyes. But since sports represents one of the last areas where this has happened you are a bit late to the game!

Now that both parties are run by the corporate power brokers folks are finally seeing how their election systems have been corrupted too.

There is no difference in any of it. The average citizen has lost what little voice he had. His or her ability to open and run their own successful business has been indexed out of existence by those large enough to buy favors. Is it any wonder that now in this country we are approaching a disparity once reserved for the days of the Pri in Mexico. 97% of the wealth was owned by 3% of the people in Mexico. Today it's 95% held by 5% of the population here. So I ask you why should the smaller schools be treated any differently now that the corporate takeover of the larger ones is underway?

Don't blame the schools of the P5. Their state funding is drying up and Federal Grants are tight. But please do take a long look at how Disney and FOX have paid to widen the divide and then take in the historic shifts many school have made away from their roots, their natural rivals, and the schools their alums care about playing, and let the damage to your world sink in. While the changes have been going on for more than a few decades now the change that is coming is still just in the beginning. It's going to get worse!

Your last paragraph sums up what I was trying to convey in my quoted post. I do lay more blame on the networks than the members of the P5 and I agree it is only to get worse.

actually NBC has more golf than CBS does in the fall. NBC has a lot of the FedEx cup playoffs along with the Rider Cup. And the Soccer.

(04-27-2016 08:27 AM)stever20 Wrote:  actually NBC has more golf than CBS does in the fall. NBC has a lot of the FedEx cup playoffs along with the Rider Cup. And the Soccer.

The point is, they both have commitments that prevent either one from loading up on 15-20 Big Ten games on Saturdays. But both networks could probably squeeze in 10 Big Ten Saturday games.

All is pretty much quiet on Big Ten media rights front
Conference athletics directors confident in Delany; FS1 doesn't scare hoops coaches

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/sports...t-20160517