Larry Scott's Gentle Crowbar Strategy

another nice little piece by John Canzano (who has a hot Asian wife, by the way).

"Instead of sitting around for four years, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, along with his negotiating partners at Creative Artists Agency, simply stepped over the current CBS contract and cut a 10-year deal. It may cause four awkward lame-duck years with CBS, but more significantly, it gives SEC members a windfall of financial security.

Also, it blows a hole in the Pac-12′s tired negotiating stance.

Scott has spent the last three years telling anyone who would listen that the Pac-12 has to wait for its current media rights deals to expire before it can negotiate freely. He’s been gently holding a crowbar, promising us that he knows how to use it to open the safe. But the SEC just walked up with a dolly and wheeled the thing off."

https://oregonlive.com/sports/2020/01/canzano-oregon-ducks-faced-with-salvaging-pac-12-bowl-season-in-rose-bowl.html

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RaceBannon

That 1230 CBS spot is gold Jerry

Watch Larry blow it

1to392831weretaken

That 1230 CBS spot is gold Jerry

Watch Larry blow it

Revenge of the noids around here.

RaceBannon

I really do think the SEC is making a mistake giving up CBS. It's worth far more than whatever the check is

ESPN will suck SEC dick regardless

CBS made them unique

Would love to see the top Pac 12 game on Saturday at 1230 on CBS

PurpleThrobber

I really do think the SEC is making a mistake giving up CBS. It's worth far more than whatever the check is

ESPN will suck SEC dick regardless

CBS made them unique

Would love to see the top Pac 12 game on Saturday at 1230 on CBS

Except ESPN will flip the prime games to ABC - which is the god-given home of Frank Broyles, Keith Jackson and all that is sacred about college football.

CBS was the Sun Bowl and Cotton Bowl and Lindsay Nelson.

SECDAWG

I really do think the SEC is making a mistake giving up CBS. It's worth far more than whatever the check is

ESPN will suck SEC dick regardless

CBS made them unique

Would love to see the top Pac 12 game on Saturday at 1230 on CBS

I’ll give you CBS as long as Gary fukn Daneilson goes with em.

RaceBannon

I really do think the SEC is making a mistake giving up CBS. It's worth far more than whatever the check is

ESPN will suck SEC dick regardless

CBS made them unique

Would love to see the top Pac 12 game on Saturday at 1230 on CBS
Except ESPN will flip the prime games to ABC - which is the god-given home of Frank Broyles, Keith Jackson and all that is sacred about college football.

CBS was the Sun Bowl and Cotton Bowl and Lindsay Nelson.

ABC is just one of many now

godawgst

another nice little piece by John Canzano (who has a hot Asian wife, by the way).

"Instead of sitting around for four years, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, along with his negotiating partners at Creative Artists Agency, simply stepped over the current CBS contract and cut a 10-year deal. It may cause four awkward lame-duck years with CBS, but more significantly, it gives SEC members a windfall of financial security.

Also, it blows a hole in the Pac-12′s tired negotiating stance.

Scott has spent the last three years telling anyone who would listen that the Pac-12 has to wait for its current media rights deals to expire before it can negotiate freely. He’s been gently holding a crowbar, promising us that he knows how to use it to open the safe. But the SEC just walked up with a dolly and wheeled the thing off."

https://oregonlive.com/sports/2020/01/canzano-oregon-ducks-faced-with-salvaging-pac-12-bowl-season-in-rose-bowl.html

And now, your #1 "broadcast partner" ABC/ESPN doesn't need to pay up at all for the shitty Pac-12 content, which FOX is also aware of so they don't either.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Pac-12 media rights stay the same or even go down when the next contract comes up, although I realize Larry Scott's plan is to catch a Amazon/Google/Facebook/Alibaba/Apple unicorn/white swan offer that leads to some type of Private Equity event.

godawgst

Each SEC team will get 20-25 million per Year from the deal with ABC ALONE before any SEC Network, or other media revenue.

Each Pac-12 team received 32 million total this year.

As it currently sits, the GAP Between what a SEC school will get is MORE than what each Pac-12 will take in when the deal goes into place.

dnc

Each SEC team will get 20-25 million per Year from the deal with ABC ALONE before any SEC Network, or other media revenue.

Each Pac-12 team received 32 million total this year.

As it currently sits, the GAP Between what a SEC school will get is MORE than what each Pac-12 will take in when the deal goes into place.

#FireLarryScott

Blu82

Larry Scott...crowbar??

Is he attempting to separate the HCH men from the boys?

Baseman

TedBundyDawg used his crowbar. And not gently

RoadDawg55

I really do think the SEC is making a mistake giving up CBS. It's worth far more than whatever the check is

ESPN will suck SEC dick regardless

CBS made them unique

Would love to see the top Pac 12 game on Saturday at 1230 on CBS
Except ESPN will flip the prime games to ABC - which is the god-given home of Frank Broyles, Keith Jackson and all that is sacred about college football.

CBS was the Sun Bowl and Cotton Bowl and Lindsay Nelson.

ABC is just one of many now

Their #1 broadcast team is Fowler and Herbstreit. It might as well be ESPN because it is ESPN.