PAC-12 gets largest TV contract

[thebigabd]

How would it benefit OU playing in the Pac-16? Adding California to our Texas recruiting in football? Games vs USC and Oregon in football, UCLA and Arizona and basketball instead of games vs Texas Tech, Iowa State and Missouri?

Please.

Plus remember I live in Scottsdale.

The Big 12 could just as easily go the other direction and add the Florida schools and other southern TV markets in "football country" which would probably be more beneficial for recruiting anyway.

But there is the issue of where you live, so going west does make sense.

 

[bocabull]

California is football country right up there with Texas and Florida. OU and Texas in the Pac-16 with USC would combine Texas/California recruiting and be head and shoulders better than adding the sisters of the poor from the south.

But it's all cool for now because OU and Texas will make as much money as if they were in the other conferences because we get a disproportionate share of the lower revenues making up for the shortfall.

Plus we have virtually no competition to win the conference for a chance at playing in the title game every year.

 

[thebigabd]

California is football country right up there with Texas and Florida. OU and Texas in the Pac-16 with USC would combine Texas/California recruiting and be head and shoulders better than adding the sisters of the poor from the south.

But it's all cool for now because OU and Texas will make as much money as if they were in the other conferences because we get a disproportionate share of the lower revenues making up for the shortfall.

Plus we have virtually no competition to win the conference for a chance at playing in the title game every year.

Bingo.

 

[NickZepp]

I don't think the Big 12 will survive unless it adds 2 teams like Notre Dame and BYU or some others close to that because it'll still lack behind without a Conference title game. Now every major conference will have extra revenue coming in with that conference title game in football. That's where the Big 12 will suffer the most.

 

[IndySooner]

The most important quote from Larry Scott yesterday read something like, "Conference expansion is not over, and our conference is a very intriguing option."

Don't kid yourselves. It's happening. Either this summer or next summer, the Big 10, Pac 10 and SEC will be expanding again. The Big 12 is dying a slow death. I just hope we didn't pass up our best opportunity.

 

[oSuJeff97]

That is my point. The teams that are driving the bus (OU, UT and A&M) are making too much money to leave and no one is going to poach ISU and Baylor. With the new deal, the Big XII is in a much stronger position than before. Not to mention that there is a huge buyout to leave.

This.

The $1.2 billion secondary deal with Fox ensured the survival of the Big 12.

The Big 12 schools might have a lesser primary deal right now, but they all know a massive windfall is coming in 2016.

When you combine the new secondary deal with even a "market rate" deal for 2016, that would vault the Big 12 right to the top, in terms of per-team payout from a TV deal. And for Texas and OU and possibly A&M that doesn't even include the extra $$$ from their own networks.

And speaking of 2016, I'm not so sure that Fox won't go all out to secure the rights to the Big 12 over ABC/ESPN. They are going to start showing regular season college football games on their network with the new Pac 12 deal... and what have we seen over the years with Fox?

When they go after a property, they go all-in and they go big. (See NFL, MLB, NASCAR)

A bidding war between Fox and ESPN/ABC for the Big 12's primary broadcasting rights could mean HUGE money for the league.