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Larry Scott's Gentle Crowbar Strategy

Meek
Meek Member Posts: 7,031
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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
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,111 Founders Club
    That 1230 CBS spot is gold Jerry

    Watch Larry blow it
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    RaceBannon said:

    That 1230 CBS spot is gold Jerry

    Watch Larry blow it

    Revenge of the noids around here.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,124 Standard Supporter
    RaceBannon said:

    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.

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  • SECDAWG
    SECDAWG Member Posts: 5,004
    RaceBannon said:

    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.

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,111 Founders Club
    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    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
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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,554 Swaye's Wigwam
    Meek said:

    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.
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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,554 Swaye's Wigwam
    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.

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,840
    godawgst said:

    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
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  • Blu82
    Blu82 Member Posts: 1,673
    Larry Scott...crowbar??

    Is he attempting to separate the HCH men from the boys?
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  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,369
    TedBundyDawg used his crowbar. And not gently
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,147
    RaceBannon said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    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.
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