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ESPN probably gave them really genuine assurances.

uh no, that's dumb. He was a LB coach for two years. Memphis Basketball is in the post season almost every year and their OOC schedules are packed with matchups that will lift the ratings of the entire conference.

As soon as Friday means any day between yesterday and the heat death of the universe.

So, any day now.

I don't think that's accurate. That came from some Twitter homer and when pressed, he said his proof they are upset was a couple of Twitter comments by fans. The game had to be moved to a new venue and time because of the hurricane. The time slot was already full, so they got bumped to ESPN+.

I still think it's a stretch for USF to be added.

Good call. Wait... tweets are fact?! I mean all the others over the months were... right?

So many just trying to be the first to break any type of news.

Just my thinking here... I think teams total money from the conference can be around $20M when you consider NCAA credits, playoff off money and what I anticipate to be some sort of negotiated payout out from extra revenue from Pac-12 enterprises that is extra and in addition to rights from games played by the conference members (other games our studios produces, which they are actively doing and gathering up more contracts both college and pro). If we can land 3+ teams in that tourney every year and get a couple of them to the second round + that is really helpful. and even the measly G5 rate, is nearly $2M a team for the CFB playoffs. 

My guess is I think actual literal media itself from sports from the schools will be maybe $12 to $15M zip code and I think CW is going to make a strong bid, and it will be interesting to see if one of the major networks doesn't counter to keep them at bay. We honestly have had pretty decent numbers, and if you think about what could do with consistent advertisement, out of conference scheduling, etc, there could be some pretty darn good views for them. 

My thinking on that number is the what I previously heard was OSU general value, as of a couple years a go and sort of factoring us being in a more interesting and compelling conference that is a newly quite strong basketball conference. I have nothing more than kind of a gut feeling of that is about right given the universe.