Or we allowed somebody to walk all over us…again
Made well over $300M since we've been in the B10 over what we would have been paid in the B12 along with massive grants to the University.
Same. I remember when Colorado moving to the pac-10 was praised as a good move because they were such a good cultural fit with the Coasters. Like USC and UCLA are a cultural fit for the Big 10? Money is green. End of story. They bring a lot to the table.
Good analogy. "Nebraska-Maryland-Rutgers" vs "USC-UCLA" is just not an apples-to-apples comparison.
You are definitely not wrong. I just think USC and UCLA had huge leverage and said "We join as full members or GFY." In this arms race era it was no time for the B1G to argue over nickels and dimes (or millions). In the end it looks like Nebraska will benefit along with every other B1G member, but hopefully this spells the end of us getting bent over by the conference regularly. But probably not.
Your analogy is somewhat on And maybe somewhat off, of course there is more money a decade later , Nebraska came in when the media contract was in the middle of time, UCLA and USC will come into a newly negotiated contract, the question that nobody probably can answer if they came in when the old contract was still going would they come full partners, if the still would then Nebraska did get screwed.!
A bit surprising to me as well, but something to consider. Since the Big Ten presidents voted to not play in 2020 and then had a shorten scheduled when forced by Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio State to play, the conference lost a lot of money and FOX stepped in and bought a lot more equity in the BTN from the schools and as a result the conference no longer owns a controlling share in the company. So that gave FOX a lot of power over the conference to do stuff like adding these two schools as full members.
The networks have "power" over college football by virtue of the payments they make for media rights contracts. ESPN also forced Texas and Oklahoma into the SEC because ESPN was losing a lot of money on the standalone Texas Longhorn network and wanted it merged into the SEC. Don't think that the arrogant Texas academics were too happy with landing in the SEC but money talked. And Oklahoma had to tag along to survive. The Big 12 midgets were left behind and Texas had no qualms about dumping them.
Wow!
Did you even read what he posted?
Your hate for the BIG will only bring you down emotionally and I feel sorry you've hitched your wagon to the anti BIG wagon train. In the end money drives people to do what is best for themselves and their schools. Time to let go and understand it's only a matter of time before Notre Dame is a full member of the BIG and the cash will be too much to say no to. The BIG is and will be KING of college football and not even mighty Alabama can stop it.
This is A+ satire! I am pissing myself after re-reading.
There are multiple media companies bidding on the B1G media rights besides Fox including Apple who wanted to get in after USC/UCLA joined. Fox is NOT the only player for B1G media rights.
FOX owns 61% of the BTN
Let's just wait to see the details of the new media contract and who gets what rights. Although they certainly will be a player, I just don't think Fox/BTN are going to have 100% of the rights but we'll see. Wait shouldn't be too long for the facts since everyone says it will be wrapped up by Labor Day or sooner.
FOX is going to pay itself a splashy headline number that really won’t mean anything except the parrots will have learned a new word
B10 Had no choice.
yes Apple and amazon are offering big money. b10 will most likely be on 3 tiers. 1 tier will be fox . 2nd and 3rd tier will most likely be 2 of these 3. CBS, NBC, TURNER. This why the b10 going forward will make more money than sec. Sec is stuck with just espn. Would me amazing if b10 games were on fox, cbs, nbc every week. b10 would put up ratings never seen before
Clean up on isle 3, king_kong is pissing himself, again. Love me some BIG TEN!
If you love the big ten, you hate Nebraska
