As a season ticket holder you should know they gave $100 off season tickets this year. Does that count?
Big 12 winner?
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I, for one, am outraged
we need to be nickel & diming everyone at every possible turn
is it all about money or is it not??????
You don't actually know what the correct amount is. Could be they reduced it to $7.8 billion. It's insignificant either way, no matter how big of deal you make it out to be.
1. you don't know, either.
2. we have more recent & accurate information than the year-old speculative article you referenced.
You seem to be polarizing it as one thing or the other. Why can't money matter but not be everything?
And yes, I was happy with a nearly 25% reduction in my season ticket bill for the year.
You posted an article last week that was just as speculative and also misleading by lumping the previously agreed upon covid loan into the new tv deal. So I would say this article is just fine.
Bullet point 2 isn't relevant. Bullet point 3 is speculative. Point 1 shows a $40 million reduction on $7+ billion worth of contracts. But keep making a huge deal out of it. It's now kind of your thing.
you read my bullet points through your own colored lens, not the article.
typical.
do you know why #2 is and will remain relevant? because the B1G couldn't deliver on its own COVID revenue metrics, it gave up the rights to its own football broadcasts. FOX is now the majority stakeholder in perpetuity, and thus will negotiate against its rivals on the conference's behalf in this and every subsequent negotiation.
The article, and you, try to lump point 2 with the new contract. It doesn't have anything to do with it. No matter how hard you try to spin it and now change the argument. It was a partner loaning money. So you can continue to spin your negativity about the new deal. But all the negatives you bring up continue to be a giant yawn. Drama on ESPN's part and drama on your part.
I'm not surprised a $400 season ticket holder cannot wrap his head around the shocking and unfathomable reality that the B1G conference no longer owns its own football - including conference championship - broadcasting rights.
You try way too hard. You hate the Big 10. We get it. You're a Google warrior with a lot of time. Congrats.
try at what?
because of the single-partner nature of the B1G's FOX-owned football rights, we are at risk of being the canary in the coal mine of the broadcast rights bubble bursting.
the SEC will outpace this deal (obviously) without having to forfeit a majority ownership stake in their rights.
this should concern every single B1G media money chest thumper now and in the future.
To diss the Big 10. Your talking points of weak competition and pedophiles speak for themselves. Constantly bringing up the tv deal is trying too hard.
I simply respond to people like you who are spreading misinfo with regards to the tv deal.
would be a shame for readers here to take your posts at face value and look like idiots when discussing outside this forum.
I do not ever bring it up, except to ask if it's been finished (it hasn't).
That’s not true. I have never claimed the big12 would fold. I have given them tremendous credit for becoming the premier repository of programs that the BIG and/or SEC don’t want right now and will leave the very second they are given that option
There was no doubt it would have failed under Dan Beeb’s leadership… they upgraded and are doing well.
This is very true.. that example (and others) show what can happen to a conference under poor leadership. All it takes is 1 loser to start a nosedive.
For some reason, many on the Iowa board also despise the Big 12 - probably because of Iowa St. They sound exactly like Missouri fans in the KC area - and some on here - who are disappointed to see the Big 12 get up off the canvass and hit back. They are quick to cover up their own misery with "but look how much money we are making and we are in the SEC" It's their standard response - especially after K-state beat the crap out of them last fall in FB and KU blasted them in BB in Columbia. They have nothing...but they get paid.
A local media personality asked a MU fan, today on his show, where would you rather visit for a FB or BB game, Boulder, Colorado, or Tucson, Airzona, or Utah...or Columbia, Missouri.
Well, they survived. Which was in doubt 12 months ago. A ton of good but no truly great programs.
The SEC and Big Ten are the clear leaders. Both in terms of media rights and in programs.
Think I figured it out...the Big 12 is the girl we broke up with...and we want to see her as fat and ugly now, dating a loser to boot. Haha.
Sort of like saying, half of Elon Musk's net worth ($150 Billion) vs all of Mark Zuckerburg's net worth ($44 Billion)
I would point out $75>$44