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whatshouldicareabout
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whatshouldicareabout
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Wimbeldon Larry should just sell all the
assetscouches off and take ESPN or Fox on as a partner. But my guess is he thinks DirectTV getting bought out by AT&T will solve everything. It probably wont. DirectTV seems to be the least of their problems. They don't have the money or the knowledge to execute his plan.The TV deals with ABC/ESPN are generating almost all of the revenue. The Pac12 network itself generates very little money right now. The latest figure was a $1M distribution per school. That's GARBAGE. Broke ass schools like Utah are starting to bitch about it publicly to the press...so I would assume other Pac12 schools aren't exactly pumped about it either.
Here was the Utah AD quoted to his local rag earlier this month:
“If you look at what the Big 10 is going to be getting from their network, $10 million, and we are going to be getting $1 million, it’s a little bit tough. I know it’s going to be reevaluated and the models are going to be looked at. … They are going to take a look at the landscape and determine if they should be sticking with the model … or move in another direction.
“We are getting a million dollars from the Pac-12 network and about 17 million from ESPN and Fox, and then there is some deductions from some stuff too.”
In a related note, Hill mentioned that Utah may not be as well off in the money department as the public thinks.
“We are not loaded,” he said. “Everyone thinks we’re loaded and I don’t know what to do about it, that’s a real challenge. … I’m not whining, forget that, I’m just saying that we’re not loaded.”
As usual I'm talking out my ass and have no links or sources. If you want to bitch I'll be on Aurora with brass knucks in my backpack
Wimbeldon Larry decided to cut out the middle man (ESPN/Fox) and build the entire network himself. If that plan works it should generate more profit and more distributions as he doesn't have to share the profit (ESPN gets 50% from SECN), if he fails to execute that plan it wont....right now looks like the later is occurring.
I wouldn't think Pac12N is completely fucked, they just might have to fire Larry Scott, or tell him to change the strategy to partner with ESPN/Fox like the SEC has for their network.
If the Pac-12 Network wants to be successful, it needs to have programming that people care about... aka football programming year round.
SEC football isn't even compelling enough to watch year round.
Motherfucking do it.
More money is a big deal. It matters.
It ain't the money
It ain't the fact we get to watch CU vs. WSU at 8 o'clock at night...in analog... with equipment from the 60's
what is successful about the P-12 network?
Notice how the conference went from Wulff, Erickson, Stoops, and Embree to Leach, Graham, RichRod, and McIntyre in one year after the TV deal? Do you think the conference would've been better had they paid Carroll, Harbaugh, Kelly, etc. more?
I see it identical to the being smart enough theory. If a job requires someone to have a 130 IQ, it doesn't matter if they are at 135 or 160. Once you cross the line you're equally capable.
The Pac, particularly Washington, is across the line. Win or GTFO.