Jon Joseph

I think the survey was conducted in a pub in Las Vegas that is open 24/7. Or, the proverbial 1,000 monkeys each with a keyboard? PUZZLING to say the least.

This will likely draw more fans than the ones trying to find the Pac-12 Network. SEC Media Days. 4 days of wall-to-wall coverage on the SEC Network which is subscribed to by 4x+ as many folks who subscribe to the Pac-12 network. Hats off to Dan Lanning and his staff for requiting so well with one hand tied behind Oregon's back.

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"There are three kind of lies: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics." Mark Twain (although Twain attributed this to Benjamin Disraeli.) The parties responsible for this tripe should be drawn and quartered. Well, at least fired. The Beavers with a bigger fan base than the Ducks? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiigt! Oregon Football: New study shows questionable view of Ducks fanbase DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Oregon’s fanbase is how big? A new study claims that the Ducks have a way smaller following than you might think. We...

Great to hear from you. UGA trying to win 3 titles in a row and matching the feat of Minnesota in the 1930s will be great to watch. The schedule is certainly favorable for Georgia to return to Atlanta where, I think, the Dawgs will again play LSU. I expect LSU in Kelly's 2nd season to put up a better battle but I believe the Dawgs win the game, go 13-0 and UGA will be the #1 playoff seed playing in the Sugar Bowl. This IMO the playoff rota that should be permanently in place; a semi-final game in the Rose Bowl followed by a semi-final game in the Sugar Bowl. The rich get richer. Kirby has a decent shot to sign the all-time top-rated class of recruits. BTW, I was happy to see that the muckraker at AJC was canned. If you are an investigative reporter you might want to do some solid investigation before writing an article. As my distant relative John Adams once noted: Facts are stubborn things. USC will score a whole bunch of points but will Troy be able to stop another team with a good offense? SC had a plus 22 turnover margin last season and this is not likely to be repeated. SC prior to the days of Pete Carroll and post-Pete Carroll has been continually overrated. With Utah, UW, and UCLA playing at SC I do think SC makes the playoff where Oregon will like Utah last season, defeat SC for the 2nd time in the 2023 season. Pundits are chortling regarding the portal guys Riley brought in on D without analyzing and giving your old friend Dan Lanning credit for plugging holes on the Oregon D out of the portal, with 2 or 3 major contributors 'portaling' to Eugene by way of the SEC. Best of luck to your Dawgs in 2023.

Dead Spin accurately describes the extent of the author's grey matter. Turn around of UCLA? I must have missed this. Chip was last scene turning around a win against Pitt in the bowl game into a loss. Game Day was present to see Dan Lanning and friends put a beat down on the Bruins. UCLA has no playoff appearances under Chip or under Jim Mora. Not even a NY6 bowl. What is this fool's source for Oregon being ready to bail out when Oregon does not have an invitation from Fox/B1G? More financially prosperous. Worse case for the Bruins. $64M - $10M in Cal tax payment = $54M and who knows what in travel costs compared to close to $50M the LA schools could be bringing in had they stayed in LA. How prosperous will traveling 3 time zones to play be for non-revenue sports athletes? Fool that I am, I thought there was a rule that you had to reach puberty before being allowed to publish rubbish.

Great take. But here is a known the media is ignoring, Riley for all of his wins at OK and last season at SC has never fielded a quality D. SC's plus 22 turnover margin in 2022 is likely not sustainable. The Pac-12 this season is deeper than Riley played in the B12 where he had a huge roster advantage except for a dysfunctional Texas. SC has a far more difficult conference schedule in 2023 than it had in 2022 even with playing Utah, UW, and UCLA in LA. I have little faith in the Grinch who stole defense being able to dramatically improve SC's D. I do agree with your great point that you could argue in favor of any of 5 teams plus, because of its conference schedule, UCLA. It's going to be a heck of a battle for every team in the Pac-12.

If I had a vote, and the world is rightfully grateful that I do not, I'd cop out and have Oregon and USC T1. Then UW and then Oregon State. Although with UW playing at Oregon State I could go either way here. I think that Oregon will have a better-balanced O than Troy with Dye gone and I'll believe SC has fixed its Swiss cheese D when I see it. Utah's schedule, Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, USC, and UW is a tough conference row to hoe. Playing at Oregon State and UW and USC; well, a big ask to go 3-0 in these games. This is a more difficult conference schedule than Utah faced last season and its OOC schedule is also tough. Somehow the scribes seem to be overlooking the Oregon D playing a solid game versus the Utes last season and also SC losing twice to the Utes even with the Heisman winner at QB. I agree with Charles, let the media sell Puddles short in the preseason and look to have the last Pac-12 as we know it, laugh.

Thanks. And no disrespect to Charles for posting this. As Charles' noted it is a very interesting issue to ponder.

One question I have as a follow-up to my comment. Is there any expectation of privacy in today's wired world? Who shot the video? Did Deion and the team know the meeting was being recorded? I'm happy to be playing the back 9.

Tan, good take but you play the schedule put before your team. 11-1 is an excellent record at any level of play. The schedule Sanders has in front of him in 2023 is simply brutal, including playing 2 P5 opponents OOC. CU plays Oregon, Oregon State, Utah, USC, and UCLA missing only UW among the teams projected to have a chance at winning the Pac-12. Yes, he was a showboat at FSU, and with the Falcons and the Braves. But his teammates loved playing with the man. He has a herculean rebuild in front of him but he has brought in assistant coaches that will help with the effort. Convincing the HC of Kent State to come to Boulder as his OC. was a big win. Kent State gave UGA a much tougher game in 2022 than Oregon. And the other coaches around him are experienced. Sanders told the team he inherited the truth, the majority of guys on the roster were not capable of playing P5 football at a championship level. He is taking advantage of today's transfer portal rules to significantly upgrade the roster. In 2023 I think that Deion will have CU on the cusp of going bowling and the Buffs will upset a team or two that they are not supposed to beat. The former Buffs coach had the personality of a cumquat. Karl Dorrell had no shot at winning with the players he had on the roster. And CU would have continued to draw fewer than 20,000 fans for its home games. He has invigorated a moribund program and dropped money to the bottom line. P5 football like it or not is a big business. I can think of no other coach CU could have hired that would have moved the needle anywhere close to what Deion has done. His hire was not only good for CU, but it was also good for a Pac-10 that needs the publicity. I only hope that he will not be derailed by health issues. The entire nation will be following CU this season because of Deion.

The base deal is close to $20M but this is supplemented by revenue earned by the ACC network. In 2022 I believe the total distribution to ACC member schools was just south of $40M. The ACC has responded to criticism of the media deal by Clemson and FSU by allowing teams that make the CFB and CBB playoffs will keep a bigger share of the pie. The Pac-10 is rumored to be doing the same with CFB playoff revenue. ESPN's media deal runs through 2036! And there is no reason for ESPN to up the ante. BTW, I do not believe anything that comes off of McMurphy's keyboard. Typical for Brett to alter the facts to fit his narrative of Pac-10 doom and gloom.

Prof, I do not know if it is available where you reside but in South Carolina I have access to the Pac-12 network on DISH. Also the ACC and B1G networks and even the Longhorn network, that will likely disappear in 2024 and no one will notice. Ironic is it not that Texas cratered Scott's expansion idea over a Longhorn network that has very few subscribers and the network Larry established has also been a loser.

Beneath the flash and dash Sanders is old school. As he recently stated he would never coach in today's NFL that he believes is loaded with prima donnas. It's his way or the highway. It would be nice to know the rule(s) this player broke that resulted in the player being called out in front of the team. So long as there was no physical abuse I am fine with this. Sanders put J State and the entire HBCU group of teams in the spotlight. Who would ever have thought that Game Day would show up in Jackson, Mississippi? CU was perhaps the worst team in the G5 and P5 last season. It will take time to turn things around in Boulder but Deion has already made a big financial impact. Spring game sold out at $10 a ticket and ESPN was on hand to broadcast the game. And the 2023 CU season tickets are sold out. This is for a school that in 2022 drew an average 'crowd' of 17,000. I'm guessing here but I think the responses to Sanders publicly booting the player could well depend on a commenter's date of birth. Lots of stuff went down back when that would not be tolerated today.

Quite a few seasons back Utah defeated Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar Bowl on 1/2/09. Utah was in the Mountain West. The Utes joined the Pac-12 in 2010. think this is the only big-time bowl win for the Utes. Last 2 Rose Bowls, 2021, Utah had a running back playing as a DB, and Ohio State won a Rose Bowl shootout. In 2022, Utah was simply smash-mouthed by Penn State in the Rose Bowl in a very bad showing by Utah that drew the fewest number of Rose Bowl viewers in decades. Utah got a nice break last season playing CU before the champ game while SC played Notre Dame. But not the break SC potentially has this season with an Open Date the week prior to the champ game. My 2023 Pac-12 nightmare has USC playing UCLA in the champ game.

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Do not shovel sand against the tide. Like it or not streaming is coming on. Hopefully, the Pac-10 finds streaming partners which will help distribute the brand, unlike Larry's lousy network. Catch a wave and you could be sitting on top of the world.

Brett McMurphy? I believe his source is Wazzu's water boy but I don't mean to diss on the water boy. 😵

Good point and good facts but every Pac team can say the same for every game broadcast on the Pac-12 Network. I do expect that BYU moving up to the P5 officially will draw more eyeballs.

FWIW, this is from Athlon Sports quoting ESPN's Heather Dinich. This appears to be good news, no news. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/pac-12-media-rights-deal-reportedly-set-to-be-on-par-with-acc-and-big-12

Not just Dallas where the size of a media market is more important than a team's brand. The B12 newbies average football game viewers in 2022: 38. BYU - 997K - BYU with the LDS affiliation has a national audience. Not of course, on the level of Notre Dame which ranks 6. with 3.3M viewers a game but only behind Pac-10 teams 12. Oregon - 2.21M, Utah - 1.16M, 34. UW - 1.15M. WA St is close at 41. and 907K. 55. Cincinnati - 653K - Cincinnati is approximately the same market size as Columbus. Ohio State is #1 with an average of 5.8M viewers. 61. UCF - 510K - Not that far behind 59. Miami - 608K and the Orlando market is now larger than the Miami market. With the B12 membership, I expect UCF to close the gap with Miami. 78. Houston - 242K. Houston, like SMU in Dallas, does not punch its weight in the Houston media market. Potential Pac-10 add-ons - 71. SMU - 312K, 85 - San Diego State - 198K Brands trump market size all across the country.

Great take, Annie. Streaming will be in the mix but I hope it is with Amazon, Apple, or UTube (now in the football game with Sunday NFL telecasts) and not Peacock with its crummy 20M subscriber base. Peacock would not be a significant improvement over Larry's Loser Network. And with NBC's Notre Dame and B1G media deals, you can bet that Pac-10 games on Peacock would be late, late Eastern time kick-offs. The LA schools were not clued into Peacock being the exclusive broadcaster for 8 B1G games this season. One home game in LA for both LA schools is expected to be streamed on Peacock. The UW at Michigan State game will be shown exclusively on Peacock, (thanks for burying the P10 exposure) and Peacock had the contractual power to move a Sparty home game from E. Lansing to Detroit. A power that MI St did not know existed. Pigs keep coming out of the media poke that Kevin Warren put together. The 1st season distribution for each member school was supposed to be $70M. This dropped to $65M and is now down to $64M. Had SC and UCLA stayed in the Pac, SC could have received at least $50M. $14M and making your non-revenue sports athletes Frequent Flyer mileage champs justify the jump to B1G country? I think USC President Folt analyzed the deal as well as she analyzed the move into the Central time zone and the hire of her disgraced AD.

Yes, Bob Bowlsby and not Yak-Yak brought on board all 4 of the B12 newbies including BYU. The Pac-12 world would be much different today had the conference hired former Iowa and Stanford AD Bowlsby instead of Larry.

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