Who Will Pay to Stream Conference Networks?

[Mike Jackson]

I think we are in a College Football economic bubble.  Long term I expect the next contracts after this renewal round gold rush & realignment to go down.  NIL might be blamed but I think it will be a scapegoat.    I am a college football fan, a Mean Green fan, not fan of a particular conference.  So the more concentrated the attention is all SEC & Big 10 games that  I don’t bother to watch already (unless I get an upset alert with less than 5:00 minutes to go) the less I will watch.    
 

I don’t think I am in the minority of fans without ties to an SEC or Big 10 school.  I think this will be reflected in the ratings over these new contracts and they will be adjusted accordingly next go round.  Not to mention the decline of cable in general.   And I am definitely not paying to stream a Big 10, or SEC Network Al La carte like Netflix.  And the collective streaming services that mimic cable won’t have the same amount of money to pay these conferences.  
 

What do you guys think?  Are we entering a bubble with way too much positive speculation on revenue growth for the SEC & Big 10?

Edited May 4, 2022 by Mike Jackson