Interesting with the whole 4-Pac going in (if this is true). What's especially interesting is that this establishes that ESPN sees value in us.
We should be able to survive based on a full B12 share so probably won't get much or any Calimony. B1G would still be my preferred landing place but Fox already has the premiere West Coast teams so would want us less.
Our hope is that Fox makes a partial share counter offer to shut ESPN out of the time zone (P5-wise) completely.
MHver3 saying the Big12 push is from ESPN because of the ACC stalling. ESPN is willing to foot the bill of adding 4 teams as it would be similar to adding 3 ACC teams. Fox wouldn’t pay anything extra.
Any extra inventory may be part of ongoing ESPN/Amazon negotiations/deal where he mentions existing Pac12Networks infrastructure, which would make a ton of sense.
Bleeding edge rumors for sure, but shocker, another few days will definitely change the direction of where things are headed.
Nick probably has the best opinion. Just wait until something happens then analyze.
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https://x.com/mhver3/status/1695606124639146479?s=46&t=8ZmDJmrbyT_EV72y2qjZnw
Interesting with the whole 4-Pac going in (if this is true). What's especially interesting is that this establishes that ESPN sees value in us.
We should be able to survive based on a full B12 share so probably won't get much or any Calimony. B1G would still be my preferred landing place but Fox already has the premiere West Coast teams so would want us less.
Our hope is that Fox makes a partial share counter offer to shut ESPN out of the time zone (P5-wise) completely.
Nothing coming up JOJO.
MHver3 saying the Big12 push is from ESPN because of the ACC stalling. ESPN is willing to foot the bill of adding 4 teams as it would be similar to adding 3 ACC teams. Fox wouldn’t pay anything extra.
Any extra inventory may be part of ongoing ESPN/Amazon negotiations/deal where he mentions existing Pac12Networks infrastructure, which would make a ton of sense.
Bleeding edge rumors for sure, but shocker, another few days will definitely change the direction of where things are headed.
Nick probably has the best opinion. Just wait until something happens then analyze.
About as I expected. ESPN wants to get “Calford” in a major conference so they have more west coast inventory and are tired of the ACC’s dithering.