Uhhhmmm, They already got a freebe with a serious inventory upgrade with the addition of two blue bloods. You don't think Texas and Oklahoma wouldn't have made the last renegotiation more lucrative if they were added before? ESPN was in euphoria just to pay even money to add them. A ninth conference is more and better inventory to choose from and they would get that totally for free while all the schools would actually loose money by loosing .5 home games.

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Posted by meansonny

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Posted on 5/30/23 at 1:51 pm to Guess

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Uhhhmmm, They already got a freebe with a serious inventory upgrade with the addition of two blue bloods

Uhhhmmm. No.
The contract stipulated that there was no renegotiation in terms of financial incentive to each team (the pot went up from ESPN. But no more than to make sure that all 16 teams saw no reduction in funds from the TV deal).
It was already in the previous negotiation. There is no freebie when it is already addressed that espn would pay a specific amount more.

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You don't think Texas and Oklahoma wouldn't have made the last renegotiation more lucrative if they were added before?

See above.
Adding OU and UT was a power play to keep them out of the big X. Espn knew we were adding teams. The BigXII was an obvious target.

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A ninth conference is more and better inventory to choose from and they would get that totally for free while all the schools would actually loose money by loosing .5 home games.

How and why is it better inventory?
Just because you say so?
Just because people parrot it?
Why?

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