That's peanuts for A&M in view of the huge payouts they've made to fired coaches.
On what planet is aTm one of the SEC’s “better teams”?
Alabama and Georgia are clearly excellent at the top of the SEC. I am not enamored with the rest of them.
LOL, since when has conference expansion only been about playing the best football on the field? It's about who makes the bigger financial contribution to the conference. In this case Texas is a HUGE market with great viewership numbers, period. Texas, followed by A&M are the biggest players (financially) in that market.
it's also about rationalization. perhaps a way here to kill the b12 or acc, idk? what's come of the collegiate game is just dumbfounding to me, killing the golden goose.
I agree. This is about maximizing $$. The rest will fall into place as far as competition. This coupled with NIL, not that it's going to remain the same, will draw the best talent to the schools at the top of the food chain. There will continue to be diamonds in the rough as there are today.
but ut is tied to the hip with 0u, so a&m seems the next best choice to have a texas footprint
The B12 is NOT the golden goose.
I'm not arguing for Texas BUT if we're honest, Texas is the bigger financial play of the two although for sure A&M is very big in its own right.
I don’t think they’ve paid Fisher yet. So they still have that massive bill to pay.
There was a time, not long ago, when Missouri would have considered leaving the SEC for the BIG. Not now. They are settled in and doing well. The SEC is exciting.
There are a couple of underserving schools in there - Texas Tech and K-State being the most obvious. They won't make it ahead of Arizona and ASU.
K-State gets left out in every scenario. Best hope is that CFP-12 or CFP-14 sticks and there is no true separation of the SEC/B1G from the peasants.
There's going to be a P2. It's inevitable. What's left of the B12/P12/ACC will join the G5 to form the G8. K-State is on the outside looking in.
it makes the "winners" feel good to see their golden egg laying goose decapitated.
I'm not buying this. There's some not in and some in that I don't understand. This is 1 person opinion and I have mine
Florida State. Maybe Virginia. Maybe North Carolina. Notre Dame is a no brainer. We're going to get to 24 and lock it up. Same with the SEC. Take those 48 to another league.
probably a recency reflection. ku has not beaten k-state the past 15-years and only four times in the last thirty years. so if this is about football, it's clear which school gets invited to the football-first conference. plus, this coming year and what follows with klieman in manhattan could be cfp special.
when i think about this from a commercial point of view, i wonder how we reach these conclusions? here i am looking down on the enterprise from an m&a perspective. this fellow from phx says neither belong. so we would take a couple hundred million in revenue - a half billion in value - and just dump it? phx says they don't belong because, well phx is just smarter than discounted cash flow. amazing.
Good lord. What metric was used for that nonsense? Iowa ahead of Nebraska, Penn State, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Texas A&M?when i think about this from a commercial point of view, i wonder how we reach these conclusions? here i am looking down on the enterprise from an m&a perspective. this fellow from phx says neither belong. so we would take a couple hundred million in revenue - a half billion in value - and just dump it? phx says they don't belong because, well phx is just smarter than discounted cash flow. amazing.
I really don't understand how these values are calculated. How the heck would Iowa be ranked higher than Nebraska, Wisconsin, USC, Tennessee, Texas A&M, etc.?when i think about this from a commercial point of view, i wonder how we reach these conclusions? here i am looking down on the enterprise from an m&a perspective. this fellow from phx says neither belong. so we would take a couple hundred million in revenue - a half billion in value - and just dump it? phx says they don't belong because, well phx is just smarter than discounted cash flow. amazing.
they are looking at the balance sheet and cash flow statements and making judgements mostly by discounting the cash flow to arrive at program values.
No one gives a shit about balance sheets for these super conferences. If they did UCLA would have been left out. Face it, Kstate is as middle of the country as you can get. Bordered multiple conferences at various stages. And you have never even been seriously mentioned as a candidate for any of these conferences. That is how you calculate value. And according to my metrics, you ain't worth shit.
i was explaining how the values were determined for the wall street journal article, that's all. and to say andy staples is no one is a judgement call.
Yeah I don't trust anything that has iowa 3rd place in the b1g
CU has switched conferences twice now. They are desirable. KSU hasn't been courted even once. But you think KSU is getting in but not CU? You think ASU, located in a huge metro, is left out but KSU isn't? Very doubtful.i was explaining how the values were determined for the wall street journal article, that's all. and to say andy staples is no one is a judgement call.
andy staples put that chart together, not me. i suppose he was valuing football programs with some recency just as the wall street journal was equating value to cash flow. argue as you choose. it was not my data in either case.
