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College Football 2021: Cash is King

dxmnkd316 said:
Counterpoint: Northwestern and Rutgers.
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Fair point, especially regarding Rutgers. They were added for the NYC market, though it's not like they have NYC in their thrall. Same with the Bay Area and either Stanford or Cal, to be honest, don't expect from either of them you'll get what an SEC commands in its market. That said, it's less about a team that has a fanatic following and more about being to show the cable networks and ad buyers that you have a semblance of presence there to bring in the dollars.

Also, regarding certain markets, like the Bay Area, it's also about existing alumni presence in those markets, in addition to adding new teams. That Youtube I posted awhile back showed how the Bay Area already has decent numbers of alumni from B1G schools. Same with Chicago and NYC; to some extent it's only partly about what the new school commands in that market, and partly about re-engaging alumni in that market.
 
French Rage said:
That removes the two private schools from the otherwise-public Pac-12, and the two largest ND rivals. I mean I guess there's a theme there, but I don't think Stanford is your top 2 choice if you want the largest following (and remember I'm the Stanford fan here).
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They don't care about actual followings. The following only needs to be big enough to get the Big Ten Network on basic cable in the area so the schools can soak up those sweet, sweet monthly fees from everyone whether they watch the station or not.
 
The most obvious teams to move to the B1G are USC and Stanford, assuming UCLA and Cal are stopped by the state leg. That way you get the two leading markets, southern and northern CA. After that would come UA and UW.
 
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unofan said:
They don't care about actual followings. The following only needs to be big enough to get the Big Ten Network on basic cable in the area so the schools can soak up those sweet, sweet monthly fees from everyone whether they watch the station or not.
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Fair point. It comes down to the cable systems' user base, nothing else.

A la carte can't come soon enough. I don't need to pay for all you boobs' stoopid tv.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
Which makes me wonder, does that move eventually get Northwestern kicked out?
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I don’t see any school getting kicked out. The last time it happened in D1 was Temple, and that’s because they were trying to run a BCS conference program with an FCS budget. Even Baylor didn’t get kicked out of the Big XII despite being downright awful in basketball and football and a murder to cap it off. Though they might’ve been helped by the league only being a few years old at that point. Essentially any other team that’s been expelled from a conference is because they were cheating or didn’t want to follow rules to curb cheating, and those are all early 1900s cases.

With the way bylaws and contracts are written, especially now, if schools are going to get left behind in all this it’ll be a CCHA situation where the school gets de facto expelled because everyone else left to make the College Sports Super League.
 
Kepler said:
Fair point. It comes down to the cable systems' user base, nothing else.

A la carte can't come soon enough. I don't need to pay for all you boobs' stoopid tv.
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If you like sports, a la carte isn’t going to be much cheaper than cable.

Bally came out with an a la carte option that’s 20 a month. ESPN plus is going to 10 a month. When or if they include their broadcast programming that’s going to be 30 minimum. If you’re a Big Ten fan then you’d need to add Fox’s app onto there. And with the new media deal, who knows, maybe Peacock, Paramount, and/or Apple and Amazon too. I guess those last two would already be extra today anyway.

On the plus side, you can always cancel in the off-season. But like we’re finding with streaming, consumers may find a way to hack the pricing early, but the media companies will always find a way.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
If you like sports, a la carte isn’t going to be much cheaper than cable.

Bally came out with an a la carte option that’s 20 a month. ESPN plus is going to 10 a month. When or if they include their broadcast programming that’s going to be 30 minimum. If you’re a Big Ten fan then you’d need to add Fox’s app onto there. And with the new media deal, who knows, maybe Peacock, Paramount, and/or Apple and Amazon too. I guess those last two would already be extra today anyway.

On the plus side, you can always cancel in the off-season. But like we’re finding with streaming, consumers may find a way to hack the pricing early, but the media companies will always find a way.
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If you have basic cable, you were already paying ESPN $7.00 per month back in 2017. Add in ESPN2, ESPNU, and SEC Network, and $9/mo was going straight to Bristol. And that was five years ago, and that was whether you watched it or not.
 
unofan said:
If you have basic cable, you were already paying ESPN $7.00 per month back in 2017. Add in ESPN2, ESPNU, and SEC Network, and $9/mo was going straight to Bristol. And that was five years ago, and that was whether you watched it or not.
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Wasn't it mookie's sig line ... there's a good buck in that racket.
 
The Oracle hath spoken:

“If we have two 20-team leagues,” Saban said Tuesday during SEC media days, “how is that going to impact all the people that are not in those leagues? That’s a question for all of you to speculate and answer on.”
 
Now that UColorado has had a taste of "California dreaming" (PAC-12) would they ever sully themselves with a return to a Midwestern conference (Big XII).
 
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