Jon Joseph

The SEC has equal shares as does the ACC except for the recent ACC tweak that will give members bringing in footfall and basketball post-season money a bigger piece of the revenue pie. A Rising Crimson Tide certainly benefitted the SEC as a whole.

Logical. Why would Pac schools announce a 'Letter of Intent' to pledge media grant of rights without an understanding on the new deal's structure and dollar amount?

Right, the media deal has not been concluded so this 'agreement' among the Pac-10 schools is a Letter of Intent. However, I do not think the Pac-10 schools would have announced this 'agreement' without some idea in regard to the structure of the new deal, linear vs streaming, etc., and a ball park media deal bottom line amount. This is backwards from how grants of media rights usually work when there is a deal already in hand. The horse is still inside of the barn. Nevertheless, even though it isn't the same as OK-ing a new deal it is an indication that the Pac-10 schools want to remain together. Of course, the leaders of every Pac-10 school are testing the water for alternatives if the Pac-10 deal falls short of expectations. Simply good business. Once a deal is made, expect an announcement to come mid-week unless and unfortunately, the conference wants to bury the details which most likely means an announcement on Friday. Again, considering alternatives makes sense but the B1G and B12 cannot expand without media companies paying the bill. The announcement by the B12 that it is exploring expansion is far more lame IMO than this announcement form the Pac. Especially when it is clear that if the B12 wants to add Gonzaga and UConn the other B12 members will be paying for this expansion by agreeing to take a lesser amount from ESPN/FOX.

Bluto says that Shout beats the heck out of Sweet Caroline!

This guy Swaim is the mini-me of journalism. A complete B12 hack. I can think of an Anglo Saxon onomatopoetic 4 letter word that should appear before SHOW instead of Swaim. Keep throwing tweets on your tweeterville on your garbage pile. Better yet, Swaim away back to your swamp.

Good take but I do not want to go back to divisions and lose the assurance that the 2 best teams will play for the conference championship.

At any cost? If the media deal is close to or exceeds the B12 media deal it could well be in Oregon's best interest to stay in the Pac. Are you certain being a junior member in the B1G and helping to reduce UCLA's and USC's cost of travel makes sense? For say, $10M more a year with a lot of the $10M sucked up by travel and other operational costs. It has been reported, which I take with a grain of salt, that the B1G media deal is now closer to a $60M than a $65M annual payout. If this is the case and with UCLA having to pay 'Calimony' (thank you John Canzan0) the B1G deal could be close to a wash for UCLA. And SC and UCLA are on the hook for their part of the Comcast debacle and for paying the expense of the San Francisco offices restoration to back where the facilities were before Larry showed up. SC will no longer be the shot caller in the B1G. The 2 LA schools nay well have bought a pig in a poke. A pig Kevin Warren advertised as having more bacon on its ribs than is the case. Carol Folt and friends screwed up on the due diligence required before SC hired Bohn as AD. Just like SC screwed up when it hired a coach who had a problem with alcohol. Both Bohn's and Sark's failings were well known to numerous 3rd parties before the hires but apparently unknown by the folks in charge at SC. Kind of like the admissions scandal. Folt appears to be making the same mistakes as her predecessors. It also came as a surprise to both LA schools that a number of their games will be streamed on Peacock that currently sits at 20M subscribers. The Pac has what could be a golden chance to get in on the forefront of streaming where all sports broadcasting appears to be headed.

In line with what the ACC has agreed to.

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/16-college-football-teams-that-can-win-championship-georgia-bulldogs-alabama-crimson-tide-ohio-state-buckeyes Oregon is one of 16 teams with a BCR in 2023.

https://collegefootballnews.com/cfn/san-diego-state-aztecs-college-football-preview-2023-breakdown-prediction-top-players-win-total Good 2023 review of SDSU football.

See todays' takes by Dennis Dodd (!) and John Canzano that both pour oil on the Pac-10's demise. The B12 is nowhere close to poaching any Pac-10 team and the Pac-10 appears to be close to adding SDSU and shutting the B12 out of the San Diego market.

Thanks for the comment. The list is the number of teams each conference will play against P5 members in 2023. Florida and South Carolina are the only 2 SEC schools playing 10 P5 opponents in 2023.

And today's article by John Canzano that Charles posted today on BFD only supports this take from Dodd.

My guess is that via back-channeling, SDSU already has the invite and will give notice, whether or not the invite is definitely in place before 6/30 and SDSU will save millions in the exit fee payment to the MW.

Inside the Big 12's pursuit of Gonzaga, UConn as Brett Yormark aims to increase league's basketball dominance - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Whether Yormark has the support from the rest of the Big 12 remains to be seen Finally! Dodd recognizes that it takes other people's (media) money to expand and that the B12 will not an d cannot make a move for any Pac-10 school before the details of the new media deal are known. Neither ESPN not FOX are contractually bound to add the addition of any P5 program to the B12. Some truth amidst the unctuous rumor mongering feels like having taken a nice hot shower.

According to John Canzano (paywall), all Pac-10 schools are in agreement regarding their respective pledge of rights to the new media deal. The deal is expected to be finalized within the next 60 days. So, the 10 schools must at least have a ball park figure as to what the number will be and also the structure; streaming vs linear broadcasts, etc. Also according to John, the CU legal discussion meeting this week has nothing to do with moving to the B12. As noted in an article by Dennis Dodd up on BFD today, the B12 can't and won't make a move for any Pac-10 team before knowing the new media deal bottom line and finding a funding source for any additional teams. ESPN/FOX are not ipso facto obligated to fund 1 up to 4 new P5 teams that the B12 would want to add. Between this report by Canzano, based on direct discussion with conference ADs and the finally realistic understanding of current economics by Dodd, a breath of fresh air is blowing across Pac-10 country. The devil as always is in the details but I do believe that a deal will be finalized that will keep all Pac-10 members on board, primed to add 2 or more teams (most likely SDSU and SMU) and ready to send the Pac-10 champion and hopefully at least one other conference team to the 12-team playoff in 2024.

See the article by Dennis Dodd up on BFD today. Finally, Dodd gets economics 101. The FOX and ESPN networks are not standing by to add football teams to the B12 and if the B12 wants to add Gonzaga and UConn it will have to do so by getting other conference members to agree to a media revenue haircut. SDSU would far prefer to join the Pac-10 than any other conference. SDSU makes sense on its own. Fresno and UNLV make dense as a defensive move to keep the B12 out of the Pacific time zone. Both Fresno and Las Vegas/Clark County, bring good sized media markets. Notwithstanding the loss of UCLA and USC I am sure there will still be academic yin and yang among the geniuses who run the conference. This nonsense needs to come to an end. When businesses merge and add subsidiaries it is not based on the intellect of incoming employees but on the business merits. And how many undergraduate students are graced by being taught by the top drawer professors at any of these self-righteous academic giant universities.

With a good streaming deal with Apple/Amazon, Pac-10 games will be available world wide and not just on a network with bad carriage agreements and 13M subscribers.

Good take. I note tht Ohio State did not have replacements for Washington when it cancelled the series with UW.

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Lo and behold! "The B12 continues to wait for the Pac-12 to reveal a new media rights figure to its members before taking the next step in that pursuit." At last an understanding of basic economics. Why would any Pac-10 team bolt to the B12 without knowing what the new media deal will be? What media network would agree to bid for additional B12 football teams without knowing the details of the new media deal? As to the B12's pursuit of Gonzaga, basketball only and UConn: "A developing mystery becomes who would pay for Gonzaga and UConn. It's highly unlikely FOX or ESPN would want to reopen a B12 deal that has yet to begin." The B12 Commissioner has proposed that existing B12 members take a revenue haircut to add these two teams. This is understandably meeting with internal resistance. It is so easy to spend other people's money but when the rubber hits the road? Inside the Big 12's pursuit of Gonzaga, UConn as Brett Yormark aims to increase league's basketball dominance - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Whether Yormark has the support from the rest of the Big 12 remains to be seen

Good update on the Texas Tech Program. Picked to finish 4th in this season's 14 team B12. With Texas Tech faithful sold, Joey McGuire is poised to lead Red Raiders to long-awaited breakthrough - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM McGuire led the Red Raiders to their best record in nine years during his debut season in 2022

More like how interested is ESPN/Fox?

This is huge. No team without a Blue Chip Ratio roster won a BCS title or a playoff title to date. Hats off to Dan and crew.

Great take Spartan. I wonder if two more home games even against G5 opponents would not pay the balance of the buyout fees. Ohio State paid UW $500K to cancel out of a 2024/25 H+H. Unless Rob screwed up the buyout I would think that OK St and Baylor could be bought out for less with both being given more time to find a replacement than all-mighty Ohio State gave UW.