(06-21-2017, 07:47 PM)needle link Wrote:I think a 20-ish team, football-only "Big Pac" conference would attract TV dollars on par with the SEC and Big10, and the Big12 schools just might be desperate enough to give it a try.
I don't quite see why this combined league would provide much more on a per team basis than the current average payout of the two leagues (which is relatively close).
Of course if you control all the product, you have lots of control of the price of that product, but college football product is hardly scarce right now.
Now if the top 10 to 12 draws from the Pac 12 and the Big 12 got together and cut everyone else out, then presumably those guys could each make more than currently. Unfortunately, that would probably mean cutting Stanford out from the pie.
[My guess is that the top draws in those two conferences closely mirrors attendance figures. The top 12 from 2016 would be:
Texas, Oklahoma, $C, UCLA, UW, Texas Tech, WVU, Oregon, Ok State, Iowa St, Kansas St, Arizona.
Of course even years are bad for Stanford; for 2015 I think we'd sneak into #12 slot or so.]