Realignment Update

[max the wonder dog]

Dan Patrick says SMU and SDSU move to PAC 12 likely. Boise State and UNLV maybes.

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/dan-patrick-smu-and-sdsu-to-the-pac-12-is-likely-boise-state-and-unlv-maybe

[mtrout]

Dan Patrick said this like the beginning of last week. These news sites are so lazy. I'm waiting for the 10 articles this week talking about realignment announcement due to Pac12 Media Day.

Friday July 21 2023 10am CDT Big George drops the hammer General Patton style, totally realigning the college football landscape.

[SMUstang]

So what is the PAC going to do for media day? I'm betting they go ahead and admit SDSU for 2024, extend their current media contract 1 more year, prepare to admit SMU in 2025, and continue to negotiate their long term media contract.

[Topper]

So what is the PAC going to do for media day? I'm betting they go ahead and admit SDSU for 2024, extend their current media contract 1 more year, prepare to admit SMU in 2025, and continue to negotiate their long term media contract.

The current media deal is with Fox and ESPN. Those networks have already negotiated deals with other conferences for the following year based on OU, UT, USC and UCLA all going to new conferences. It is impossible to exentd the current deal for another year given those circumstances.

[mtrout]

So what is the PAC going to do for media day? I'm betting they go ahead and admit SDSU for 2024, extend their current media contract 1 more year, prepare to admit SMU in 2025, and continue to negotiate their long term media contract.

George Diesel will talk about how Stanford won the Director's Cup, announce that Cam Rising is available for media at 1:30PM, then conclude with the lunch menu.

[Statler]

More positive vibes:

https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/jon-wilner-pac-12-hotline-mailbag/article_9f86438e-1f5d-11ee-b806-cbb9b8c9bc72.html

[Water Pony]

More positive vibes:

https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/jon-wilner-pac-12-hotline-mailbag/article_9f86438e-1f5d-11ee-b806-cbb9b8c9bc72.html

The above article is encouraging and the following article would be further support for what might be his thinking and a reason why it has been delayed.

Is the below article what George Kliavkoff is hoping for … to fill an inside straight?

https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/2023/0 ... otiations/

[mtrout]

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts we’d all have a merry Christmas. Pac12 media day is going to be another dud.

[Topper]

Follow the money. Amazon, Apple and Google are sitting on trillions of dollars in capitalization. ESPN has flirted with bankruptcy and is laying people off. Some partnership between the old media conglomerates and the new technologies money might save ESPN. I can see the Big 12 being forced into re-negotiating their deal before this is over unless ESPN can tap into the big money.

[Dukie]

Follow the money. Amazon, Apple and Google are sitting on trillions of dollars in capitalization. ESPN has flirted with bankruptcy and is laying people off. Some partnership between the old media conglomerates and the new technologies money might save ESPN. I can see the Big 12 being forced into re-negotiating their deal before this is over unless ESPN can tap into the big money.

We're all dealing with a lot of conjecture and hypotheticals, of course, but *if* something like this new media landscape comes into being quickly, those who are currently locked into deals (ACC is locked for the longest, but others are as well), it will very much depend on the fine print of the contracts as to whether the Big 12 or anyone else *can* renegotiate even if they want to or feel they need to. I would suspect their current media partners have included language that lets successors continue to control things for the duration of the current contracts.

[Topper]

Follow the money. Amazon, Apple and Google are sitting on trillions of dollars in capitalization. ESPN has flirted with bankruptcy and is laying people off. Some partnership between the old media conglomerates and the new technologies money might save ESPN. I can see the Big 12 being forced into re-negotiating their deal before this is over unless ESPN can tap into the big money.

We're all dealing with a lot of conjecture and hypotheticals, of course, but *if* something like this new media landscape comes into being quickly, those who are currently locked into deals (ACC is locked for the longest, but others are as well), it will very much depend on the fine print of the contracts as to whether the Big 12 or anyone else *can* renegotiate even if they want to or feel they need to. I would suspect their current media partners have included language that lets successors continue to control things for the duration of the current contracts.

My point is that the money might not be there for their current contracts. ESPN might be an undercapiralized partner.

[Dukie]

Follow the money. Amazon, Apple and Google are sitting on trillions of dollars in capitalization. ESPN has flirted with bankruptcy and is laying people off. Some partnership between the old media conglomerates and the new technologies money might save ESPN. I can see the Big 12 being forced into re-negotiating their deal before this is over unless ESPN can tap into the big money.

We're all dealing with a lot of conjecture and hypotheticals, of course, but *if* something like this new media landscape comes into being quickly, those who are currently locked into deals (ACC is locked for the longest, but others are as well), it will very much depend on the fine print of the contracts as to whether the Big 12 or anyone else *can* renegotiate even if they want to or feel they need to. I would suspect their current media partners have included language that lets successors continue to control things for the duration of the current contracts.

My point is that the money might not be there for their current contracts. ESPN might be an undercapiralized partner.

Gotcha. I think the money will be there. In this scenario, the PAC would strike a novel and presumably richer deal. The benefit to ESPN, and to its future partners for that matter, would be to keep other schools locked in to the status quo, rather than cut them off somehow.

[max the wonder dog]

Canzano on media deal

"The Pac-12 Conference will not unveil the details of its media-rights deal on Friday in Las Vegas during Football Media Day. But the negotiations have been “advanced and productive” and a deal is in “the near future” per a conference source.

How far in the future?

Commissioner George Kliavkoff is expected to give an update on Friday during the conference’s media-day event at Resorts World Las Vegas.

“We’ve had very productive negotiations,” the source told me. “New entrants have come in. We’re feeling good and our schools will be rewarded for their patience.”...

Reminds me of a neighborhood Chinese restaurant I visited in the last century. Good food, but fortune cookies only had a few fortunes. At least twice a month I would get "Not now, but perhaps soon."

[Oldmins]

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts we’d all have a merry Christmas. Pac12 media day is going to be another dud.

Hey, didn't one of our best alums use to say this on NFL broadcasts all the time? Hadn't thought of it for a while.

[Dukie]

I'm having a bad day. Someone cheer me up.

I'm sorry this is happening (as I'm sure you'd amend bad "day" to now include week, month, and possibly year). This is getting incredibly ugly; and ACC Commisioner Jim Phillips is also now a named defendant in one of the lawsuits. I hope this means the ACC will be rid of him.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... rn-scandal