re: Pac-12 zooms past Big Ten, SEC in college sports revenue

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It was my understanding that the Tier III stuff had been repurchased to make this go and that they ended with this SEC TV deal starting.

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It was always my understanding that each school had one football game each year that they controlled and that's the game that ended up on pay per view or wherever. After CBS got it's pick ESPN and Disney were required to put all other SEC football games on one of their outlets except for those school controlled games. The SEC network came around to include those school controlled games and to give ESPN/Disney another outlet to play all those other SEC games. Too much SEC content was becoming a problem for them. I'm not sure about baseball and basketball, but I don't think ESPN owned it all, even if they did and it was repurchased, it was done to make money and not lose money and that extra money still isn't included in SEC numbers.