Am I the only guy that thinks Sankey should have shopped the new TV contract around rather than going all in with ESPN/ABC? I remember thinking that at the time when it was being discussed.

The new big ten contracts are going to be much better than the new SEC contract, by all accounts. Their viewership may be higher than SEC viewership but not that much higher to warrant contracts that are not comparable at all.

The business man side of me thinks about these kind of things.

Any opinions? There are not enough intelligent posters on the main Rant board to put this out for comments.

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Posted by lewis and herschel

Member since Nov 2009

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Posted on 8/11/22 at 11:24 am to bunkerhill

Like them or not, i am a not myself, they are the most powerful force in college football. Having our interests aligned can only be good.

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Posted by RunLindsayRun

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Posted on 8/11/22 at 3:59 pm to bunkerhill

The only thing I gather from most of this is that we are going to have to endure even more of Beth Mowins commentary.. Am I correct?

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Posted by Cheese Grits

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Posted on 8/17/22 at 5:06 pm to bunkerhill

quote:
Their viewership may be higher than SEC viewership but not that much higher to warrant contracts that are not comparable at all.

SEC has content
B1G has eyeballs

The modern game is about $$$$ so eyeballs are worth more than content

NFL really is national but CFB is still regional. Adding U$C and UCLA was all about money over content. We had all this over a century ago (Super Conferences and paying players) till the US government stepped in. Went back to not paying players and smaller regional groups.

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