re: reform bill could generate extra billions by allowing conferences to pool their TV rights

Wtf have you done this year ah yeah barely beat this texas team florida owned ok

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Are you a dumbass arse hole we needed 8 demoncrats to block the dems shut down

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That was for a special vote on government appropriations which need 60 votes to pass. This legislation posted in the OP is not the same type of bill. But go ahead and be a bleeding vagina all you want, pussy

Democrats wrote a bill and sponsor it themselves? When the authors and sponsors have little clue about the subject, and call it some buzzword to make it sound great?

I mean…. Worked wonders for America with the “Affordable” Care Act didn’t it? What could go wrong?

And I’m suuuuuuuuuure that there is nothing buried in there that would be agenda driven. Nooooooooooooo.

SEC and Big 10 keep more by keeping it separate.

The bowl games always make their nut because ESPN ensures their existence with media rights. They make their profit by grifting athletic departments into buying overpriced tickets and they are required to buy a set minimum allotment.

As for the bill mentioned in the OP, I’m not that familiar with it but given the sponsors of it, I’m sure it’s shite and has a bunch of ancillary bullshite buried in the hundreds of pages of it.

Your such a tool democrats yeah they want those taxes you fall for there shut down too

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No one seriously believes his claim about there being a big untapped pot of money that could be gained if only the schools were allowed to combine and have one entity negotiate all television rights for CFB.

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Why would there not be? The “network” effect definitely applies in an interrelated market structure like football schedules across numerous institutions. Meaning, for other readers, there are increasing efficiencies of scale and non-linear value creation the larger the pool is.

Media rights are almost always better when pooled. Look at the Big 10 and SEC: those are pooled rights and more valuable to each participating school than any single institution doing it on their own.

Pooling historically hasn’t happened above the conference level because there was no coordination architecture above them, save the NCAA, and the 1960’s legislation prevented NCAA-led solutions.

Notre Dame would be a potentially notable exception here, but it’s also impossible to say what a media rights package would be worth for any conference they would have joined, if it would have been even larger with ND as one school within a conference.

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You notice the bowl games have quarter filled stadiums during the holidays? The bowl game promoters aren’t taking losses. ESPN still has the obligation to show the weedeater polan bowl or the betty Crocker bowl or some other horseshite game. Corporate p
Sponsors are providing the money lost by lack of attendance and they figure the betting public more than makes up the difference in lost concession stand sales. I guess they might be doing something right because the
Over saturation of bowl games continues unabated for the last 20 years.

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Schools are forced to buy a certain amount of tickets if they go to the bowl game. So even if the stands are empty, they still sold the tickets and won't lose money.

And the tickets they give the schools are often the shittier seats, so the ones people buy are often not part of ones the schools had to pay for.

The schools agree to this because going to the bowl games means they get a bunch of extra practices that teams who don't go to bowl games aren't allowed to have. And it's also good for national exposure etc. So they'll do it even while taking a loss because of those benefits.

I know this might be an unpopular opinion here but I liked college football better when teams up north and out west could still compete at a higher level than they are. What I don’t miss was the PAC and (primarily) Big10 dominated media conspiring to under rank SEC teams like in the 90s and early 00s. I still remember those clowns saying Michigan and Ohio State needed to rematch again for the 2006 national championship because no one else was worthy. Then both of those teams got absolutely demolished in their bowls.

I think sports need a wide base of support. It is more satisfying to beat people who truly care. The prospect of a smaller and smaller collection of schools running off with more and more of the money worries me. I also don’t like how insular the conferences are becoming with 9 conference games(once again in pursuit of money and protecting the brand in Big 10’s case). I’m just not sure what the solution could be, but I don’t hate people trying to think of one.