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CU has rejoined the Big 12 and broken college football - talking out asses continues
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BuffBear
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Ubben has been a dumbass for over a decade. Perhaps draft picks or on the field results are a better measure than 5* recruits. Helps explain why UT and A$M winning in February doesn’t equate to actual winning.
Stars don't matter?
BerkeleyBuff
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To be fair, they're not the only thing that matters. The Athletic recently ran an article that ranked several Big XII teams as some of the best in the country at developing 3 and 4 star players into NFL draft picks (and the same article, unsurprisingly, ranked Texas as one of the worst at squandering 5 star talent).
Their agenda is to get a bunch dumb ****s with nothing better to do to click $$$. It appears it be working around these parts
There are editors that review his work. Hes not on an island.
- ESPN has committed a majority of its powder to spending on another conference.
- Disney CEO Bob “Bob CHEAPek or Paycheck” Chapek was recently ousted for underspending and under investing and general loss of confidence by rank and file employees as well as the Board.
- Bob Iger returns to the company. Iger is a former ABC executive and was CEO following Michael Eisner both of whom were pretty aggressive and supervised periods of historic growth in the companies history.
- Is Iger going to be an agent of growth again? Or is he arriving at time where there will be restraint and restructuring to control costs and right the brand? Will he let ESPN/ABC loose to spend big?
It sucks for us that CBS and NBC refuse to play ball.
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Iger's defining legacy is going to be the DeSantis lawsuit, and he knows it.
I doubt he spends much time/effort on ESPN at this point - they'll run on autopilot for a while.
Not necessarily. When Iger left the Disney/ESPN’s cable bundle was a revenue cash cow for much of Iger’s tenure. But that star is now fading with cord cutters near the end of Igers CEO tenure. If he cant make Disney+ equal what they were getting from set top he’s going to snap the leash on more spending at ESPN. If the revenue is going the other way he wont micro manage. ESPN will always need inventory. They just might be trying to underpay for it.
With the loss of set top ESPN probably doesnt need as many channels anymore since bundling wont be as much of a thing.
Its a bad time to be the Pac12 media rights
Outside of OU & UT, TCU was the only Big 12 program to sign a top 20 class in 2023 (#20). TTU was the only other in the top 30 (#27).
In 2022, OSU was the only top 30 at #29.
Conference also seems to be running at a net loss in the portal.
Very balanced and competitive conference with passionate fans and well-resourced programs that get a ton of university support. But things are definitely trending in the wrong direction on the talent level in the conference when the top of the league is recruiting like the middling classes in other P5 leagues.
In 2022, OSU was the only top 30 at #29.
Conference also seems to be running at a net loss in the portal.
Very balanced and competitive conference with passionate fans and well-resourced programs that get a ton of university support. But things are definitely trending in the wrong direction on the talent level in the conference when the top of the league is recruiting like the middling classes in other P5 leagues.
It takes a village to raise a flaming radioactive douche bag.
Miami isn't THAT bad man...
I didnt say it earlier but I do agree that the lawsuit against DeSantis is the most important issue facing Disney from a PR perspective. If the ChristoFascists win, and because of how theyve shaped the courts they could, then the WaPo is right and it will be bad for business in America as well as for the rest of us.
From a PnL perspective that lawsuit is less important unless Disney is somehow forced to leave Florida. It still remains to be seen if their streaming service revenue will replace their set top revenue. If it cant these kinds of contracts become expensive to go forward with.
Like most CEOs Im sure Iger can multitask and will divide his time amongst Disney’s many issues.
Given that Iger is 71 he could also be a placeholder for now to help identify and hire the next CEO.
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**** Bailer. I hope the whole school burns down (with no deaths, of course), and they decide not to rebuild because a charred out waste land of sharp rebar, floating asbestos, and broken glass is safer for the general public than bringing back that evil institution.
Victory
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Baylor needs to gtfo with any thoughts of a rivalry. We’ve played 16 times! And of course we’ve won more but who cares. Nostalgia used to be a mental illness.
“Nostalgia, a psychopathological condition affecting individuals who are uprooted, whose social contacts are fragmented, who are isolated and who feel totally frustrated and alienated, was first described in the 17th century and was a problem of considerable interest to physicians in the 18th and 19th centuries.”
^^ couldn’t describe the B12 any better.
Right about what? There’s something like 30 different topics all being discussed in this thread.
Colorado bye bye from PAC12.
He said smoke, so I'm assuming it means that Bailer is indeed on fire. **** those guys.
Victory
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Interview with the WSU president. P12 info starts at 30m mark.
-Deal now expected in summer
-Economy cause of delay
-Optics are an issue, one company (Amazon or ESPN) is ready to sign but wants to wait 6 weeks bc they just laid off people, bad for pr reasons but he didn’t think it mattered
-Will be linear and streaming
-P12N stays or goes depending on partner, if P12 produces the partner pays the production cost
-UW and UO wouldn’t go to B1G for less money, no one wants to be a B player
-Media deal first then expansion
-Doesn’t sound panicked, said hysteria of people wanting 4 conferences instead of 5 is overblown
-Didn’t mention CU
If I had to guess, factor in the 6 weeks thing, looking at late June.
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-Deal now expected in summer
-Economy cause of delay
-Optics are an issue, one company (Amazon or ESPN) is ready to sign but wants to wait 6 weeks bc they just laid off people, bad for pr reasons but he didn’t think it mattered
-Will be linear and streaming
-P12N stays or goes depending on partner, if P12 produces the partner pays the production cost
-UW and UO wouldn’t go to B1G for less money, no one wants to be a B player
-Media deal first then expansion
-Doesn’t sound panicked, said hysteria of people wanting 4 conferences instead of 5 is overblown
-Didn’t mention CU
If I had to guess, factor in the 6 weeks thing, looking at late June.
Beyond the Field with WSU President Kirk Schulz and Enrique Cerna
Join President Kirk Schulz and WSU Regent Enrique Cerna as they delve into the changing environment of intercollegiate athletics. President Schulz will addre...
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Of course the WSU president isn't going to sound panicked. Where else would they go?Interview with the WSU president. P12 info starts at 30m mark.
-Deal now expected in summer
-Economy cause of delay
-Optics are an issue, one company (Amazon or ESPN) is ready to sign but wants to wait 6 weeks bc they just laid off people, bad for pr reasons but he didn’t think it mattered
-Will be linear and streaming
-P12N stays or goes depending on partner, if P12 produces the partner pays the production cost
-UW and UO wouldn’t go to B1G for less money, no one wants to be a B player
-Media deal first then expansion
-Doesn’t sound panicked, said hysteria of people wanting 4 conferences instead of 5 is overblown
-Didn’t mention CU
If I had to guess, factor in the 6 weeks thing, looking at late June.
Beyond the Field with WSU President Kirk Schulz and Enrique Cerna
Join President Kirk Schulz and WSU Regent Enrique Cerna as they delve into the changing environment of intercollegiate athletics. President Schulz will addre...
Wouldn't that make him even more panicked?
He needs to be as calm as can be ...on the surface
Victory
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Of course it would. He’s doing the B12 thing where you sh** all over WSU and OSU because the conspiracy theorists all share the same brain on this stuff.
Plus saying that UW and UO wouldn't go to the B1G for less money is pretty comical. Like they wouldn't take at least 50% more than they'd be getting in the Pac. Sure.
BerkeleyBuff
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If B1G partial cut is as much as or more than the PAC (which it could easily be) and there's a plan to work them to full shares over time then there's no chance UO and UW (or us, or wherever) wouldn't jump on that.
Victory
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It was verbatim what Schultz said about UO/UW, that they told him they don’t want to be a B player. Wasn’t my opinion.
Should CU jump at less money in the B1G if offered? Absolutely.
BerkeleyBuff
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Oh I completely understood it was his words/ not your opinion; I was just calling out his words as BS.