VideoEagle

Are you sure about that? That would have made so much more sense than trying for Memphis et al. I wonder if UNLV and Air Force wanted to wait and see rather than just go for it which made the PAC2 decide to overplay their hand.

A merger under the PAC name is what seemed most likely after the PAC 2 won the battle to keep the exit fees. I don’t know why they resisted that. It was always the best deal for everyone.

The article is behind a paywall, but it’s worth the cost. Saban says the current system isn’t sustainable and needs regulation. He’s been talking to members of Congress and others about the problem. The NCAA President says they get continuous complaints from athletes that are convinced by third parties to enter the Portal on the promise of big NIL dollars, leave their scholarships, and find far less money and no scholarships at the end. A reason for Tennessee’s Talent Fee is to have enough money to keep funding Olympic sports as NIL has bleed all the money for them dry. Of note, the Governor of Georgia just signed an executive order blocking Georgia schools from NCAA action on direct payments. Saban says the reason is schools in Georgia have promised athletes more money than they have in their collectives - they don’t want to get sued!

This is the reason I'm skeptical about this whole deal. After UCLA and USC left, the Pac-10 brought in lots of consultants who told them exactly what they wanted to hear - they were worth $X to media partners. It turned out those consultants were wrong, so 8 of the 10 left. Now, the Pac-2 have brought in a lot of consultants who are telling them, according to rumor, they can be worth 75% of what the Pac-10 actually was offered. Of course, the Pac-2 seem to be glossing over the fact a major portion of the dollars from that Pac-10 deal were incentives based on increasing the subscribers to Prime and AppleTV. Never the less, it appears to be the same pitch - trust us because the consultants say so. Of course, I could be wrong. I didn’t think the Big XII would get the deal they got. So, maybe the consultants are correct this time. A part of me still thinks in the end it will end up a merger between the Pac-2 and the MWC under the name Pac-x so everyone can divide up that pool of money the departing 10 left behind!

I'm not sure why adding Wazzu and OSU to this group will make it certain to have a significantly larger media deal than the MWC already has. Contracts are more about actual eyeballs (and subscribers) than markets these days. Yes, they will have more but enough more for an increase beyond what they have now - I'm not sure. Maybe yes, maybe no. In either case it won't be a lot. If I'm Memphis, Tulane, USF or any other AAC school, I want to see actual dollars being quoted by actual media sources and not Pac-x estimates!

YES! I'm not saying "No way" but rather listen to the pitch and then check the real numbers.

First of all, based on everything I've read, NT started with a 50% of AAC media revenue. But it's on a sliding scale that increases over time reaching 100% within 10 years or earlier. Secondly, you have the PAC-2 saying they believe their media deal will be larger than the AAC, not actual media sources. Does anyone thinking rationally believe the G-5 PAC X is worth 75% of what Apple was offering the PAC-12 minus USC and UCLA? Does anyone believe Colorado State, Boise, San Diego State, and Freso are at least 3/4 the media value of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and ASU? I have a hard time believing ANY combination of MWC and AAC schools is 3/4 the media value of the old PAC-12 less USC and UCLA which was $20 million per school with a lot of subscriber incentives. Some posters are undervaluing our current media deal by $10 to $15 and they are overvaluing the Pac-2 deal by $5 to $10 A YEAR over a 10 year period! The math is against the deal even before realizing all of the new revenue side is based on number from the PAC-2 which is HIGHLY motivated to grossly exaggerate the deal. Remember the gross exaggerations of the PAC-12 after USC and UCLA departed! And nowhere is the $10 to $15 million annual increase in expenses being accounted for! Comparing SMU buying their way into the P4 ACC to us joining the G5 PAC-X is bogus as well. If just joining a conference that once had lots of national powerhouse programs was the goal then we should be joining the Southern Conference that once had Alabama, Auburn, and a half dozen other SEC schools. Of course, that makes no sense as the Southern Conference is nowhere near what it was back with those schools - much as the PAC-X is nowhere near what it was a couple of years ago.

I was just listening to the coaches show on Varsity. I don't think they would carry that and then not carry the game.

The Varsity App should carry our broadcast. It's listed as being there starting at 10 with what I think will be pre-game.

He's right. I don't write that very often, but he's right!

I can understand why they didn't!

Does Tralor have a vote?

This on I can answer! The streaming is treated just like a live game. The commercials are based on what ESPN can sell. If we're going to want a bigger media contract as a conference or school, we need to be attracting more media buys. As for seeing the same spot over and over, that's because one advertiser bought a lot of time - YEA! But they only have one or two spots to air. If you watched any of the minor bowl games last year, most of their sponsors only had a single spot to run and thus it ran every other break, in some cases EVERY break.

During a post game press conference, Tom Landry once said you can't trust what you think you saw during a game. The game film always shows you weren't as good or bad as you thought at the time.

I think @Graddean was a victim of his spell check!

Ugg bad tacking

Very nice drive. Lots of mixing it up between pass and run.

Worry about special teams? We’ve got over 70 new players! I’m worried a group of them won’t know which bus to get on after the game!

Let’s win one, then worry about winning the next.

How many years ago was this game scheduled?

They didn't deliver the ratings needed to continue. iHeart doesn't know much about programming and supporting sports talk and it showed. Once again, it appears DFW doesn't have enough market for a third all sports station.

My father graduated from what was then called Edinburg Junior College in 1937. It was started by the Edinburg ISD and the shared campus and buildings with the school district. The town made a very big deal out of them changing from Pan American College to Pan American University sometime in the 60s. I'm told by friends who still live down there that the support in the area is still mixed but growing slowly.

I grew up in Edinburg back when Abe Lemons was their basketball coach. Their finances are more stable now than back when they "withdrew" from the Belt.

"Nudged"

Not likely. Ross doesn't have the track record their donors will require.