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Post by RenoBeaver on Feb 23, 2023 15:59:57 GMT -8
Hearing that ESPN has a $100M offer for 1 Pac10 game a week. That's it, take it or leave it. Amazon wants a Wednesday or Friday night Pac10 game, again 1 game/week. That's probably worth another $100M/year, so the Pac10 is now at $200M or $20M per school. ESPN produces their own games 100%, so no problem there. Amazon would need Pac12 network to produce their game. Apple would need Pac12 network production too. Could the Pac12 network produce all the other games and sell them to Apple (and take the rest of the networks out of the equation)? George K needs to piece together this deal. If he can't get to $30M/year per school, would some of the schools even sign a new Grant of Rights? Obviously, adding SDSU and SMU change the numbers on both sides, but those markets bring more value, so there should be compensation if they're included in new deal. I think George gets this deal done by mid March. Until then, every day it goes on, the speculators and haters will ramp up their doom and gloom. Can't wait for this to be over. That's a great deal if true. What about conference championship game? That deal leaves an outrageous amount of inventory to sell...you'd think someone would be willing to pony up...especially for those afternoon and late night slots. No matter what there will always be at least one or two ranked teams to broadcast...and two or three others that are entertaining. CU with prime time, OSU, SDSU, WSU...and the rest of the conference will cycle through their successful years, they won't stay bad forever. Well maybe Cal unless they rehire Tedford.
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Post by RenoBeaver on Feb 23, 2023 16:05:25 GMT -8
Wikipedia? Arizona State is an R1 school. Arizona State Online, based out of Scottsdale, is an R2 school. All of the Pac-12 schools are R1, which was a point of pride once upon a time. All are far superior academically than San Diego State and Southern Methodist. To include either in a discussion academically is farcical. Rice is a comparable academic university to the Pac-12. If we really only want "R1" schools we could go with: - Colorado State - UNLV - Rice - University of North Texas How bout the Pac 12 gets over its arrogance and starts getting real with their standing at the P5 level and realize it may not even be a conference in a few years.
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Post by bennyskid on Feb 23, 2023 16:28:30 GMT -8
Some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations . . . .
With 12 teams, the goal is to reach ~$360 million.
12 teams x 6.5 games/team = 78 games in the inventory. ESPN wants 13 of those games for $100m.
Assume Apple+ wants the same deal.
Pac-12 Championship Game is worth at least $10m. Let's say it's worth $20m, just to be optimistic.
That leaves 52 games, from which we need $140m. That's going to be a challenge.
In 2019, the Pac12 Network brought in less than $100m with somewhat less inventory. The MWC's TV deal is for a whopping $45m/yr, or about $1m per game. So we need to either ink a deal with someone that is roughly 3x as juicy as the MWC, or figure out a way to improve the P12 network revenues by about 50%.
That's going to be a hell of a challenge.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Feb 23, 2023 16:52:45 GMT -8
What happened to George K.'s promise that the Pac-12 teams would each make between $35 and $40 million per year less than four months ago?
This thing seemed to be under control but took a huge turn in the last 2-3 weeks. The Pac-12 basically has until the end of March to get something together or risk being raided.
I am hearing that NBC may be dumping Notre Dame in favor of the NBA. If that happens, Notre Dame probably joins the Big Ten and at least one more Pac-12 team joins UCLA and USC.
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Post by RenoBeaver on Feb 23, 2023 19:30:34 GMT -8
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Post by seastape on Feb 23, 2023 20:26:22 GMT -8
Exposure should be favored but there must be a balance. Some streaming, some linear, + some...thing else?
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Post by orangeattack on Feb 24, 2023 16:06:53 GMT -8
What happened to George K.'s promise that the Pac-12 teams would each make between $35 and $40 million per year less than four months ago? This thing seemed to be under control but took a huge turn in the last 2-3 weeks. The Pac-12 basically has until the end of March to get something together or risk being raided. I am hearing that NBC may be dumping Notre Dame in favor of the NBA. If that happens, Notre Dame probably joins the Big Ten and at least one more Pac-12 team joins UCLA and USC. Stanford would be as good as gone.
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