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Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:07 pm
I believe our League has the smartest Presidents, Lawyers, Coaches etc. However, why would the SEC sign a contract with ESPN, knowing if adding additional conference games would not trigger contract discussions for additional revenue?
I would have said to ESPN that current contract is for 8 games. Any additional games they would get the right of first refusal.
If they would not renegotiate in good faith, let NBC, CBS, Amazon, Etc bid for a 9th “Game of the Week”
I hope The SEC did not get rolled by Disney. What say you?
I would have said to ESPN that current contract is for 8 games. Any additional games they would get the right of first refusal.
If they would not renegotiate in good faith, let NBC, CBS, Amazon, Etc bid for a 9th “Game of the Week”
I hope The SEC did not get rolled by Disney. What say you?
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Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:21 pm to bamaoldtimer
So, they don’t want to play an extra conference game without being paid, so instead they will continue to pay shitty teams to play games that no fan wants to see.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:26 pm to bamaoldtimer
quote:How, exactly, would you word that? How would you identify what is a "9th" game? That's not how these contracts are done, for a reason.
I believe our League has the smartest Presidents, Lawyers, Coaches etc. However, why would the SEC sign a contract with ESPN, knowing if adding additional conference games would not trigger contract discussions for additional revenue?
I would have said to ESPN that current contract is for 8 games. Any additional games they would get the right of first refusal.
If they would not renegotiate in good faith, let NBC, CBS, Amazon, Etc bid for a 9th “Game of the Week”
I hope The SEC did not get rolled by Disney. What say you?
The original mistake was signing a 15 year deal back in 2008. ESPN had made some concessions, both in 2014 and in 2020 when the deal was extended, but in both cases, the league was handicapped by the existing contract. We will never get this straight without getting pretty close to done with a contract before negotiating the next one.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:44 pm to twk
I don’t know, I’m a retired contractor, not a hi-powered SEC attorney. That question is part reason I made post. I personally don’t know! It just seems stupid to place all your eggs in one basket. I like ESPN, but now they own us.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:50 pm to bamaoldtimer
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I don’t know, I’m a retired contractor, not a hi-powered SEC attorney. That question is part reason I made post. I personally don’t know! It just seems stupid to place all your eggs in one basket. I like ESPN, but now they own us.
The Angels own Mike Trout, for 400 million. There's own and being owned.
Who knows what the landscape of college football will be in even 5 years? How many conferences will there even be?
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:55 pm to twk
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How, exactly, would you word that? How would you identify what is a "9th" game?
Posted on 5/30/23 at 3:58 pm to twk
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How, exactly, would you word that? How would you identify what is a "9th" game? That's not how these contracts are done, for a reason.
I'm no mathematician, but I'd say it's the ordinal that comes after the 8th game.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 4:00 pm to jonnyanony
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I'm no mathematician, but I'd say it's the ordinal that comes after the 8th game.
You could have a team of aggie scientists working around the clock on this for years and they wouldn't figure out how to go from 8 to 9.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 4:02 pm to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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I'm no mathematician, but I'd say it's the ordinal that comes after the 8th game.
You could have a team of aggie scientists working around the clock on this for years and they wouldn't figure out how to go from 8 to 9.
You do realize that the 9th conference game of the season is Bama vs Auburn every year.
I shouldn't have thought that the secrant could put 2 brain cells together though.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 4:04 pm to meansonny
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You do realize that the 9th conference game of the season is Bama vs Auburn every year.
Seems like that is not something so nebulous and abstract that it somehow cannot be captured by contract law.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 5:39 pm to jonnyanony
This is the best thread in the history of this site.
Posted on 5/30/23 at 5:57 pm to Gman84
So, they don’t want to play an extra conference game without being paid, so instead they will continue to pay shitty teams to play games that no fan wants to see.
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UGA certainly knows about playing a shite schedule…..evidence ‘22 and ‘23 schedule!!
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UGA certainly knows about playing a shite schedule…..evidence ‘22 and ‘23 schedule!!
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