Pac-12 lands most lucrative college football deal
by JazzyUte on May 3, 2011 11:21 AM MDT
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PrintLarry Scott is a man of his word and the Pac-12 just became home to the most lucrative college football television deal in college football history.
Reports suggest the conference is on the verge of announcing its $225 million per year television deal with both FOX and ESPN. The contract will begin with the 2012-2013 season.
The deal means Pac-12 games will be aired on ABC/ESPN, the FOX Network, FX and its basic regional FSN networks.
With this move, the conference now goes from having the worst television deal of any BCS conference to having the best.
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225 is low
It’s actually started to come out that the number is closer to 250 per year. We’ll find out for sure tomorrow.
One thing is for sure, while many think that Scott swung for the fences and legged out a double in expansion, there’s no doubt he cleared the fences on this one.
Cha and Ching!
You are right about that. As I pointed out in my other post, that even missing out on money next year, and only getting 50% in ’12, Utah will make more in those 2 years, than they made total from the MWC TV Contract, and the 75% share is more than they would have made for the entire life of the MWC TV Contract.
But the best part isn’t just the money, it’s the relationship with the four letter network staying in tact.
Gotta say I miss having a commissioner as inept as Craig Thompson. Wait, no I really don’t.
And we're going to be at the forefront of FOX's expansion into college football...
The network is going to try to get its footprint somewhere in there because college football is, and has been for the last few years, one of the fastest growing television sports in America.
This is a serious investment for them
They have a lot riding on the success. There should be a lot of support.
"From the end spring new beginnings." - Pliny the Elder
Not to mention....
the fact that pro sports lockouts will drive even more people to watching college and Olympic sports. Once they get hooked on that wholesome goodness, why go back to watching the overpaid Pro babies play?
i see you changed the old slogan. you went with he urban meyer quote.
do you know why block u is last in the south division on the sb nation left side of your blog? can’t be alphabetical b/c ralphie report would be after us? we have been much better than colorado this last decade too?
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by wolfmanshowlforever on May 3, 2011 1:44 PM MDT up reply actions
It seems there is an update every 5 seconds.
Jon Wilner blog says…
The deal is worth approx $3 billion … or approx $250 million per year … or approx $21 million per school per year.
I am excited that ESPN got involved. This is great news in my opinion. ESPN has so much power in the sports reporting industry. Giving them a slice should help the conference coverage going forward.
ESPN and Fox will be co-rightsholders.
Games will be shown on Fox, ABC, FX, Fox Sports Net, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU.
"From the end spring new beginnings." - Pliny the Elder
Having ESPN back us also means they will do more articles and start pushing the pac 12...
just like they do for SEC in football and Big east and ACC in basketball
Plus, it's still THE college football network...
I’m glad they’re not being left out, as rumors maybe suggested a couple days ago.
I would think it would make highlight reels more available too.
It seems ESPN often didn’t have highlights from the mtn
"From the end spring new beginnings." - Pliny the Elder
What about the ocho?
Or will only TDS have their games on there?
Sucks to be stuck on the upper tier channels, I suppose…
I think the hardest part, beyond the money, will be playing on Fridays...
Which is the case this season. Their locked in ESPN games this year are all on a Friday (UCF, USU and TCU).
Well might not be too much different there..
.. as the Contract does call for Thursday and Friday games for Pac-12
I bet it is a big difference...
Because I doubt Utah will have three games on a Friday. Maybe one – but even that could be a stretch.
Thursday games? I’ve never had a problem. But midweek and FRIDAY games aren’t very impressive, IMO. No one is watching football on a Friday.
From a Pac 10 fan
I have read a lot of articles from BYU fans stating you guys road the coat tails of the bigger programs.
I just want to say that it is true the bigger programs are pulling you along, without the expansion to 12 teams and the conference title game and bringing in teams with a good history this deal doesn’t get done. So regardless who the leaders of the pac are every member was a key part in getting this done.
The PAC 12 deal with ESPN will probably put pressure on the BYU deal too.
Before the deal ESPN didn’t have anything west of the rockies. BYU was going to replace Boise in filling that need. Now the need is diminished.
"From the end spring new beginnings." - Pliny the Elder
United we stand, devided we fall
The conference weilds more power as a united block than they would individually. People seem to forget about this issue.
College football has been historically undervalued because teams have not worked together. Now there is one power west of the Rocky mountains (With some overlap to the east side of the mountains.)
"From the end spring new beginnings." - Pliny the Elder
$250 million Annually definitely beats the $170 million requirement for USC/UCLA.
I found this from an old story and got a good laugh.
the presidents will vote on a proposed $2 million-per-year payout apiece for USC and UCLA above the other 10 members of the new Pac-12 until the year that combined broadcast revenues reach a certain threshold. Then the 12 members would share equally. That threshold is still in question, and probably will range from $130 million to $170 million annually. Consensus on the number could be fine-tuned already, as Scott is known to have had back-channel talks with presidents as a result of groundwork laid by athletic directors in recent months. — Seattle Times
"From the end spring new beginnings." - Pliny the Elder
Just to show how much the market changed since then.
The 170 million mark at that time was considered a reach by Larry Scott, with many thinking the Pac-12 rights would be worth about 150.
This is huge and those figures don’t include the PAC12 Network, which will be 100% owned by the conference, as opposed to the BIG10 Network which is half-owned by FOX.
Utah was receiving roughly 1.2 million annually from the MWC. The full payout starting in 2014 will be nearly 20 times as much.
No telling what this is going to do for the University of Utah.
i never realized how poor we were. :-}
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by wolfmanshowlforever on May 3, 2011 1:38 PM MDT up reply actions
Makes our accomplishments all the greater.
If we’ve been able to do what we’ve done, with the financial discrepancy that we had, imagine what we might do on an even playing field.
by UnHoly Ram on May 3, 2011 1:39 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
agreed.
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by wolfmanshowlforever on May 3, 2011 1:45 PM MDT up reply actions
Bigger disparity for Non-AQs
BYU can’t like seeing this. What a devastating blow, if you’re a Cougar fan. I really fell sorry for them, to be quite honest. The separation between the BCS and non-AQ schools is growing even deeper. If it was hard to compete now, it’s going to get a whole lot tougher.
The Utes hit the lottery when Texas and Co declined to join the PAC12. Otherwise, it most likely would have been the Utes on the outside looking in.
I’m sure we haven’t seen the end of conference consolidations either. Many non-BCS schools are going to feel squeezed out even more so than now.
I agree that the chasm between BCS and non-AQ teams is getting larger...
But I don’t feel too bad for BYU, of all the non-AQ teams they will have the largest TV revenue by a wide margin. Their ESPN deal alone is reportedly as much per game as they got from the MWC all year. (1.2 million per) And they get a MINIMUM of 3 per year so that’s a minimum of 3 times what they could have made in the MWC.
And there will surely be good years when they get four or perhaps five games on. Add to that anything they are able to make on BYUtv and they could conceivably be pulling somewhere in the 8-10 million range on good years. That dwarfs what most non-AQ’s can muster. So I don’t feel bad for them, we both got upgrades…we just got the MUCH BIGGER…IGGER….IGGER upgrade.
BYU isn't pulling in 8-10 million...
And many people not named Dick Harmon are admitting that.
But the thing about BYU, they don’t really have the need for that money, their budget is already whatever it needs to be. All this ESPN talk is nothing more than trying not to appear being left behind by Utah.
by Comrade Crimson on May 3, 2011 5:08 PM MDT up reply actions
Not normally...
Notice I said in GOOD years, ie years when they are highly ranked and ESPN picks up most of their games. On other years you’re right they won’t be. They’ll probably average in the 4 million area, but it IS within reach if they start ranked and have a good season. Denying that they have the potential is just plain silly.
This is the start of the 16 team super conferences.
Larry Scott may have missed when he tried to get the 16 team super conferences, but if these recent massive paydays for BCS Conference rights tell us anything, it’s that College Football is still headed towards those 16 team super conferences.
That’s where BYU’s independence gamble will either be rewarded or if it’ll bite them. If they can prove through independence their worth to another conference it’s great. However if the Pac-12, Big 10(12), Big 12(10) SEC, decide to raid the Big East, and ACC to just form 16 team super conferences, because they feel put off by BYU’s independence move, they could be left out in a never ending cold. Same goes for Boise State as well.
ACC will never be raided
Like the PAC-10(12) & Big Ten the conferences are built on academic, research and athletic principles. The Big 12 and Big East however, are set together as just athletic competitors only. The Big 12 especially is just Texas, sometimes Oklahoma, and the rest of the dwarfs. Once A&M feels they have had enough, you’ll see the Big Ten and SEC step in and eat up the rest of the teams, leaving maybe Iowa State, Baylor and maybe the Kansas Schools to join the MWC or CUSA.
Don't give up, don't ever give up ~ Jim Valvano
Agreed...
If we go to mega-conferences, the ACC will survive not just because of the reasons you listed, but also because its region. Much of the schools are too north for the SEC and the Big East is too unstable to foresee a scenario where they expand to include ACC programs.
So I could see Syracuse, Pittsburgh and maybe another program bolting the Big East for the Big 10 (along with potentially Missouri) and the other programs getting shoved into the newly expanded ACC (maybe a few will even be left out and forced to join the CUSA).
The SEC could still take Texas A&M and potentially poach Clemson from the ACC and maybe a few other BE teams like TCU or South Florida – but who knows.
Then you’d have super-conferences dominating every region of the country.
Midwest: Big Sixteen
East Coast: Atlantic Sixteen
South: South East Sixteen
West: Pac Sixteen
Then these four conferences create their own division, form a playoff and the lower-level conferences like the MWC and CUSA are forced to either drop down to FCS or stay at their current division minus the BCS. Of course, programs like Notre Dame and BYU would have to join specific conferences to stay afloat. ND could easily fit in with the Big Sixteen – but BYU might have a difficult time finding a conference with the only major one located out west being the P-16 and they won’t ever get an invite.
Then again, that might just be a bit too unrealistic. But you never know.
Sorry Jazzy, I agree that the ACC will survive, but your geography is a bit fuzzy...
the ACC will survive not just because of the reasons you listed, but also because its region. Much of the schools are too north for the SEC
So you’re sayin..it’s too far for a conference with teams in north-east Georgia and South Carolina to reach all the way up into South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia? That’s like saying that the MWC shouldn’t have taken BSU because they were in Idaho. There are only 2 teams north of Virginia, Maryland and Boston College, and Maryland is only an hour and a half drive from the Virginia border by DC.
It’s as short a drive to Gainesville FL for any ACC team not named Boston College as it is for the Utes to drive to Washington. And from Baton Rouge to Boston, the furthest distance from a current SEC team and a current ACC team is a almost the exact same distance as from Seattle to Tucson. The footprints of the SEC and ACC overlap extensively and combined they cover roughly the same area as the Pac-10’s current footprint. The Pac-12’s footprint will be substantially larger than both of them. So the region argument doesn’t hold any water.
The ACC’s saving grace is the weakness of the Big East, and the distance of the Big Ten and Big 12.
I did not say that at all...
Re-read what I put, please.
Do you see the SEC stretching all the way up into Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and other states where there are either ACC/Big East teams?
Cause I don’t. That was my exact point. With the Big East being the most unstable BCS conference to date, it’s very likely they’re the one purged by either the Big Ten or ACC – which grows the ACC and moves it toward a Super Conference.
But if you’re actually believing the SEC would expand to include Maryland, Boston College, Duke, Connecticut, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Cincinnati and Rutgers – well, your geography is a bit fuzzy.
The ACC has a better chance of taking the northern Big East teams than the other way around. But that region won’t support two conferences if college football shifts toward mega conferences.
So either the Big East loses a great deal of its teams to the ACC, or the two conferences merge.
But it’s unlikely the SEC would swoop in and grab most those teams ALONG with a boatload of ACC teams – ballooning their conference to well over sixteen members and making it more than just a mega-conference and something akin to its own division.
Do you honestly believe the SEC would totally devour the ACC? C’mon now! That’s ridiculous. If they did that, the SEC would 23 teams plus the potential of Texas A&M.
That ain’t gonna happen. Each conference is probably going to expand to 16 teams each under this scenario. That means the SEC takes Texas A&M, Clemson and potentially the North Carolina schools.
Then I see the ACC poaching the leftover Big East schools left behind by the Big Ten raid.
But the SEC ain’t going to swallow up the whole east coast and the Big East wouldn’t survive as a conference with only Connecticut, Louisville and Rutgers.
So something has to break. That break comes via the Big East, which has consistently been the most questionable BCS conference. It will be raided by the Big Ten and then the ACC after the SEC gobbles up a few of its teams to push their numbers to 16.
My reading comprehension works TYVM. The point I took exception to I quoted...the rest I have no issue with.
Big East =|= ACC, they are not in the same footprint. No one said the SEC would take Big East teams. Why on earth would they want to? My point is, there is maybe 1 team in the ACC that is safe from being targeted by the SEC for expansion due to their ‘region’. That school is Boston College. For everyone else, well THEY’RE IN THE SAME REGION!!!
But if you’re actually believing the SEC would expand to include Maryland, Boston College, Duke, Connecticut, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Cincinnati and Rutgers – well, your geography is a bit fuzzy.
Did I at any point say that? IMO the most likely scenario for conferences to go to super conferences plays out something like this:
One conference decides to make a move, it could be any conference really, it doesn’t matter. These are the teams I think they go after. (I list more than 4 since presumably there will be a lot of shuffling.)
SEC goes after A&M, Clemson, FL State, Miami, maybe the NC schools(NC and NC St. not Wake) or Clemson.
Pac 12 renews its offer to Texas, Oklahoma, OK St. and Texas Tech. Then looks to TCU, BYU, or the Kansas schools if they don’t work out. (and by that I mean Texas goes indie and laughs while everyone else scrambles to find a conference)
ACC counters by going for WV, Pitt, Rutgers, Louisville, and maybe South Florida.
Big Ten decides it probably won’t be able to get Texas et all due to limited space and goes for Missouri, ND (who finally joins), Pitt, Rutgers, and probably Syracuse depending on who’s available.
There will be serious competition between the SEC, Big Ten, and Pac-12 over the best teams and the ACC will take the scraps becoming the new Big East. This leaves the remnants of the Big12 and Big East to try to find a conference…many of them end up in the MWC and CUSA.
Assuming the new conferences are maxed at 16, here's what I see happening:
And this assumes Texas and Notre Dame are pressured to join a conference or not get to play with the big boys any more (i.e. excluded from the new playoff and maybe from playing any of the super-conference teams at all):
Pac 16: Current 12 plus Texas, OU, OSU and Baylor or TCU. I think Baylor or TCU end up here instead of TTech due to academics, but I might be wrong. New 8-team divisions are old PAC 8 (PAC West) and CU/Utah/AZ/ASU plus Texas 4.
Big 16: Current Big 10 (12) plus Notre Dame, Missouri, Syracuse, Boston College.
SEC: Current SEC plus UNC, aTm, VA Tech, and one other team from the ACC (NC State, Miami, Clemson, FSU are likely candidates, in that order).
ACC: Current ACC minus BC, UNC, VA Tech and one more leaves room for 8 teams. Pickup the entire football-playing Big East: Louisiville, WV, Cincy, USF, UCONN, Rutgers, Syracuse, Pitt.
That’s your new super conferences. Hopefully TCU is attractive when the time comes, I’d rather have them than Baylor. Only current BCS teams left out are Kansas, KSU, TTech, ISU, and Baylor or TCU. Everyone else finds a home.
Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.
Oops, I put Syracuse in two conferences.
Syracuse likely to the Big 10, although could be Pitt. Means the ACC will need one more team (to replace either Syracuse or Pitt who they can’t steal from the Big East since the Big 10 will beat them to it). Memphis and Kansas are both plausible here. KU is a long ways to go, but that conference will love basketball so they might do it.
Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.
You're arguing a false point...
Because you’re debating a point I never made.
Geographically, the ACC is in a position to continue to exist. Your own definition of super-conferences completely reinforces my point.
The Big East is not a stable conference right now. Every one of their members would jump ship for another BCS conference if the option presented itself. That’s not to say the ACC wouldn’t too if the SEC came a callin’, but I maintain that there are a great deal of ACC teams that wouldn’t be touched by the SEC.
That was my point and my point alone. IF college football breaks up into super conferences, it’s likely they’ll be broken up into regions. The ACC benefits because it will be the lone remaining major BCS conference in the eastern part of the United States.
I say this because, as I pointed out, the SEC isn’t going to just gobble up the entire ACC. That would balloon its numbers to a ridiculous amount and, as suggested by displaced, we’re all assuming the conferences will be maxed out at 16 teams.
The same could be said for the Big Ten – which is already at 12 plus the potential of ND (which leaves only three slots left).
IMO, what would happen is the Big East would dissolve and its teams would be divided up between the ACC and the Big Ten.
The ACC exists on two points:
1) The Big East is not an attractive BCS conference in this scenario
2) There will still have to be a BCS conference in the eastern region for those teams leftover from the SEC/Big Ten raiding.
That’s all I suggested in my original post. Much of its schools are too north to realistically be included into the new SEC – at least to the point where it’s left with zero schools.
That’s all my point was. So no, I don’t believe my geography was fuzzy. I think the ACC is in a geographical safe zone because it can realistically take the Big East leftovers without expanding its footprint to ridiculous amounts to remain a BCS super conference.
If we go to mega-conferences, the ACC will survive not just because of the reasons you listed, but also because its region. Much of the schools are too north for the SEC and the Big East is too unstable to foresee a scenario where they expand to include ACC programs.
You clearly made the point…it may not have been what you meant, but you made it nonetheless.
IMO, what would happen is the Big East would dissolve and its teams would be divided up between the ACC and the Big Ten.
Ugh...wrong button
IMO, what would happen is the Big East would dissolve and its teams would be divided up between the ACC and the Big Ten.
I agree that it will dissolve..but you make it sound like there won’t be poaching between the top conferences which I think there definitely would be. I’d be shocked beyond all belief if the ACC didn’t lose several of it’s marquee teams to the SEC. The SEC is the stronger conference and ALL of the ACC teams would jump at a chance to join for all they talk about their own conference being great. If mega-conferences go down, the ACC will look like a hybrid between itself and the current Big East. The Big East will be dead definitely, we all agree on that.
But in terms of regions, the Big East is the better geographical position to be a regional conference, what will happen is the SEC will push the ACC north into the goegraphical position of the current Big East.
Well I'm not disagreeing that the Big East makes more sense geographically...
But it’s not nearly stable enough, IMO, to withstand the shift we’re talking about. If this happens, I foresee the Big East being divided up between the Big Ten and current ACC.
so excited
I am so excited that when I heard I did a big fist pump, even though I was in the middle of a big work conference. Oh well, most people I talked to understood.
by SC_Ute on May 3, 2011 5:01 PM MDT via mobile reply actions
From a Wazzu fan's perspective
you guys made out like bandits here. I think in terms of the biggest winners, it’s Utah 1, WSU 2, Colorado/Oregon State t3. You guys were making, what, $37.50 or something? Per year? Now it jumps to $21 million? (well, in 2 years, but still)
That’s huge for you guys. Screw the dumb people saying you were just right place, right time. Adding the SLC market (plus the Denver market with the Buffs) seriously helps.
We wholeheartedly welcome you guys to the new “Best Conference in all of College Sports”.
All I ask is that you realize these Cougars are 100x better than your least favorite Cougars. Also that you beat UW.
by Kyle Rancourt on May 3, 2011 6:43 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
I think most Ute fans would agree
Although Utah does not get an equal revenue share until the 2014-15 academic year, so it does make it arguable that we’re the biggest winners.
But I’m not complaining. We got a better conference, play in LA every year, and eventually get equal revenue.
Also that you beat UW.
I’m an Oregon Duck, and I approve this message.
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by ProbablyMonty on May 4, 2011 9:52 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh, snap!
K, most of you know that I’m a Proud Purple fan. (Cheer for both Blue cougs and Red utes…) But attend BYU, so I cheer a little louder for them.
I was not a “Jealous Cougar Fool” about you getting BCS membership. Really. I knew we wouldn’t be picked up. Super lackluster year, and we refuse to play on Sundays. I was proud of Independence. It’s more of an adventure than getting picked up by Pac-12. It could go almost anywhere. We really might go under due to this. Or we might rock. Or we might just be okay. So I wasn’t jealous.
Notice the past tense there.
HOLYSNOTBUCKETSTHAT’SSOMUCHMONEY! Even if you don’t get equal shares yet, that WILL be so much money! Money (sad but true) makes a big difference in college sports. Expect 2015-2016 Utes to rule more than usual.
by romebig on May 3, 2011 9:52 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
thanks for getting that song stuck in my head.........
want to be like the utes
so freaking bad
just to touch these things youll never have
(sugar bowl, fiesta bowl baby)
your quarterback is a heap
and your coach is freaking dull
ours has Whitt
and a ring from the sugar bowl
every time you close your eyes
you take prozac and fantasize
a student section like the muss
it must be cool
wipe off that druel
you jealous cougar fool
ha ha!
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by BigBenSportsGuy on May 4, 2011 9:22 AM MDT up reply actions
Money Isn't Everything
But it sure helps to have more than enough green to throw at our Crimson. Go Utes! As a U Alum living in the Happiest Valley in Utah I wonder if there is enough green to make a trip to the Home Depot to paint an obnoxious “Y” on the mountains near Provo red. It just is not aesthetically pleasing
The goal of every Ute fan should be to caffeinate Cosmo's punch and watch him self combust.
Live feed of the announcement
Here.
I keep accidentally eating my pets. Maybe I should get something less appetizing, like a cat instead of a Twinkie.
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larry scott, the best college commissioner?
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 4, 2011 1:38 PM MDT up reply actions
Maybe the most progressive...
He’s radically changed college football in only a year. He nearly almost blew up the entire Big 12, killed the Mountain West Conference, did something unthinkable five years ago (expanded the Pac-10), created a conference championship in a conference that is steeped in tradition and brought about the most lucrative college football deal in the history of television.
by JazzyUte on May 4, 2011 2:04 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
He's got to be the best college commisioner.
Unfortunately, I don’t think he’ll stay with the Pac-12 for his entire career. This guy has the makings to be the next NFL or NBA commisioner. He might even have what it takes to be the next head of the International Olympic Committee. I would even vote for him if he ran for President of the United States.
Canada
If Larry Scott were president we would have annexed Mexico and Canada by now and gotten China to pay for it.
by H2O_UTE on May 5, 2011 7:57 AM MDT up reply actions 2 recs
that was a good one.
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 5, 2011 12:29 PM MDT up reply actions
goddell is not doing to well either. i mean once you make the pac-12 all it can be you would move on.
he probably will have that done in the next two or three years.
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 5, 2011 12:31 PM MDT up reply actions
Goodell may not be doing well from a fan perspective...
But he’s doing exactly what the owner’s want. Especially after the end of Tagliabue’s reign when the Owner’s got forced into a deal they didn’t really want, simply because Tags wanted to retire with labor piece.
In the end that’s all that matters is that Goodell please his bosses, and unless this lockout really kills NFL revenue because fans don’t come back, ala MLB & NHL strikes, Goodell’s job is safe.
then that makes him bud selig who is a puppet of the owners.
when your the #1 sport in america you don’t have a lockout. don’t kill the golden goose should be the first rule. if it happens to be a long lockout goodell is as good as gone.
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 6, 2011 12:55 PM MDT up reply actions
of the baseball owners
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 6, 2011 12:55 PM MDT up reply actions
Depends on the CBA that gets signed.
Remember, Owners were preparing for a long lockout. They WANT a long lockout.
That’s why they tried to work clauses into the TV contract to still pay them even if there were no games. The Owners want a long lockout. Goodell is doing exactly what the owners want.
The only way Goodell’s job is in jeopardy, is if they end up with a CBA that’s extremely player friendly.
when will the moolah come in..
Though the current Pac-10 schools will benefit greatly from the new deal, it will represent a windfall for new members Colorado and Utah. Colorado won’t receive a full share of conference revenue until 2012, but it will have a $6.9 million loan from the conference to cover any shortfalls in the interim.
Utah won’t get a full share until 2014-15. It will receive 50 percent in 2012-13 and 75 percent in 2013-14. The only money it will receive from the conference in 2011-2012 will come from the championship football game and other recent additions to the current TV contract.
But eventually, the Pac-12 revenue will dwarf what Colorado and Utah made respectively in the Big 12 and the Mountain West.
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Larry Scott should be canonized into the sainthood.
Or at least knighted. And yes I know that we don’t have that here in the good ol’ US of A. If I believed in idol worship, I would worship Larry Scott. He could totally beat up Chuck Norris.
chuck norris and steven seagal.
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 5, 2011 12:30 PM MDT up reply actions
NOOoooooooo! Not Chuck!
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word" - Andrew Jackson
is this deal more profitable than the sec tv contract?
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 9, 2011 10:04 AM MDT reply actions
more smack talk to my sec friends. especially bama ones. lol.
Jon " Bones " Jones new UFC light heavyweight champion. Even if Jones got struck flush in the face he would recover and defeat whoever is in front of him. I told everyone the fight would be easy. Anderson Silva would never fight "Bones". He is too scared to fight the real P4P champion. Nick Diaz, the man who will prove to the MMA world that he is the best WW in the world.
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 9, 2011 12:59 PM MDT up reply actions
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