08-13-2023, 12:16 PM
If your top properties want out, it may be hard or impossible to stop them in this setting.
I agree with you that ideally the other schools should have done more but we don't know how feasible that would have been. If the other 8 schools told UW and UO to sign or leave, the 30 million deal maybe becomes a 15 million deal, or no deal.
We also don't know just how open B10 was to UW and UO before. It all happened pretty darn quick when it happened, didnt it. And the partial shares will become full shares soon.
The B10 were always going to have more money to throw around than Pac, in pretty much any media scenario, just based on demographics and time zones. Maybe unequal shares keeps SC and UW etc for a time but it still seems an unstable situation.
The biggest mistake IMHO for the PAC was not expanding sooner, but I admit I wouldn't have really been too keen on taking B12 schools like TCU or OK State at the time.
I agree with you that ideally the other schools should have done more but we don't know how feasible that would have been. If the other 8 schools told UW and UO to sign or leave, the 30 million deal maybe becomes a 15 million deal, or no deal.
We also don't know just how open B10 was to UW and UO before. It all happened pretty darn quick when it happened, didnt it. And the partial shares will become full shares soon.
The B10 were always going to have more money to throw around than Pac, in pretty much any media scenario, just based on demographics and time zones. Maybe unequal shares keeps SC and UW etc for a time but it still seems an unstable situation.
The biggest mistake IMHO for the PAC was not expanding sooner, but I admit I wouldn't have really been too keen on taking B12 schools like TCU or OK State at the time.