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Yep. Paying big money to everyone, big rosters, big TV contracts.....you got to have the big games. I bet the FCS games go away. Getting 4 teams in the playoff, minimum and regardless of record, is the hook that will get Sankey to do this. People are tired of having those gimme games (well, except Lebby).
That's not right. Pretty much all the writers were saying that the SEC would eclipse the B1G in overall payout. I see the same numbers you see, but I can't imagine all these people are that bad at math. I'm guessing there's another big pot of cash somewhere, and this is in addition to that one.
Well at least we won't have to play Toledo again **
Thats just for the old 2:30 CBS Game of the Week which ABC now has....
Think they'd rather share revenue with us or with TOSU, Michigan, Penn State, etc?
They need someone to beat.
It’s precious you think Bama will make the decision. TV execs will make it. And they would much rather have anyone but us.
On our schedule? I'll take Purdue, Northwestern, Illinois, and Maryland please sir.
I feel like we’re in the truck bed. They’re on the trailer hoping we don’t unhitch before the next stop.
The $3 Billion ($300 Million annually) is just for the 2:30 pm game on ABC. That’s in addition to the existing contract Disney and the SEC have had since 2012 for the SEC Network, 11 am games, primetime games, non-revenue sports, etc.
There’s nowhere for the blue bloods to go.
Cal is in the ATLANTIC COAST conference and you think schools still have a say. I can lead you to water, but you’ll have to drink yourself buddy.
Sources: Big Ten, SEC eye schedule partnership
SEC and Big Ten athletic directors will meet next week to discuss a possible partnership in football scheduling and preferences for automatic bids, sources told ESPN.
We do have Minnesota coming in the schedule in a few years. That should be a good series. Assuming we ever get our heads out of our a$$es and decide to get serious about football again.
It will never be that much of an alliance. More like a very loose working together when it’s in both conferences best interests on a pretty limited basis.
Because the PAC 12 had a complete idiot as a leader and the PAC 12 was been nothing but scraps since Pete Carroll left for the Sea Chickens, exact for a one off here and there.
Agree on all of this. Everyone in the PAC-10 after USC & UCLA left could have had as much or more than any of them are getting in their new conferences if they’d realized their true value & signed the contract they were offered.
Who writes the checks to the NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA, etc? Are any of those leagues run by the networks? They work with the networks, but are not run by the networks.
No doubt, staying together was the move. Idiocy prevailed. Anyone on this board could have worked a deal out to keep it together.
Nfl has professional owners, apples to oranges. NCAA has lost most of its governing power, TV $$$ talks.
It does. But at the same time, the networks need the SEC & Big 10 just as much as the SEC & Big 10 need the networks. It’s a symbiotic relationship, not a master-servant one.
