OrangeBlood: Texas Staying in B12

[Palpatine]

Applause for working in Schrödinger. Meanwhile Chip Brown is enduring a personal lesson in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle - the more he learns of Texas' position, the less he knows about their velocity.

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My day isn't complete without a little quantum physics. Speaking of which, if you want a break from conference realignment, check this out...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html

 

[Mesaclone]

There's a lot of information flying around so its hard to tell what's real. It does appear that there's a strong momentum towards salvaging the conference. Further, the 14-17 million per school deal is also appearing to be genuine (its actually closer to 20 million for Texas). The network deal will allow Texas to have its own network though that does not mean it will pre-empt primary game coverage on Fox...that would be very unlikely.

So, IF this deal comes off as is starting to seem likely...ISU is going to walk away from this thing with an extra 10 million dollars a year in TV revenue AND the ability to show non-covered games on its existing Cyclone television network. On top of that, the 10 schools...or 9 if A&M leaves...will get to split the 10 million bucks from each of the departing schools.

That's one helluva revenue bump for a school like ISU.

 

[IIHUSKERSII]

Chip Brown is a D0uche-Canoe....he has been wrong about 80% of the crap he predicts with this whole expansion talk...if he wants any credibility he needs to start quoting someone other than "Sources" this is such a cop-out basicaly stating he's making the crap up

 

[Mesaclone]

Now, ESPN's Joe Schad...who this morning reported an imminent move to the Pac 10...has reversed course and now is saying there's a very good chance the Big 12 stays together with 10 teams. Clearly there's a shift in the "mo" on this right now...it could still reverse field and go the other way, of course...but it is moving strongly towards a continued Big 12...with the big TV contract.

 

[Clark]

There's a lot of information flying around so its hard to tell what's real. It does appear that there's a strong momentum towards salvaging the conference. Further, the 14-17 million per school deal is also appearing to be genuine (its actually closer to 20 million for Texas). The network deal will allow Texas to have its own network though that does not mean it will pre-empt primary game coverage on Fox...that would be very unlikely.

So, IF this deal comes off as is starting to seem likely...ISU is going to walk away from this thing with an extra 10 million dollars a year in TV revenue AND the ability to show non-covered games on its existing Cyclone television network. On top of that, the 10 schools...or 9 if A&M leaves...will get to split the 10 million bucks from each of the departing schools.

That's one helluva revenue bump for a school like ISU.

Can you explain how it's even possible to get more money while losing Nebraska and Colorado?

I realize that with two less teams that's two less "mouths to feed" so to speak, but still for it to be that much they'd actually have to be INCREASING revenue. How is this possible?

 

[HawkKing81]

Chip Brown is a D0uche-Canoe....he has been wrong about 80% of the crap he predicts with this whole expansion talk...if he wants any credibility he needs to start quoting someone other than "Sources" this is such a cop-out basicaly stating he's making the crap up

He might be a douch-canoe (I like that term btw), but what has he been wrong about?

That the B12 south was going to the Pac 16? That was legit, legit enough that Colorado decided to bolt fearing they might be left out in the cold.

He has been the most accurate news source when it comes to college football expansion.

 

[InNormwetrust]

I'll wait for it to be announced. PAC-10 could still be working a deal that could be better than what Bebee is offering Texas. Plus there's still a couple more hours for the story to switch another 30 times.