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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 948216" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>I am skeptical of the entire story. The schools might be unhappy with some things in the proposed contracts. However, Warren has been with the Bears since January. Even if he did negotiate in secret, without the approval or authority to do so, the conference has had four months to catch up on what was going on. ESPN had reported that the contracts were completed last August. The way the story reads, the contracts are not finalized and the entire conference was simply ignoring contract negotiations for four months. </p><p></p><p>The report that "Recently, schools have found out:" is rubbish. Even if Warren negotiated in total secrecy last year, he would have had lawyers working with him on all of the contracts. Even if he kept the information secret from the schools and every person who works for the conference, that information would have been accessible to the conference employees and the schools as soon as he left. Either Warren negotiated in complete secrecy, and then the schools totally ignored $1 billion per year of contracts when he left (which I doubt); or; The schools were unhappy with items in the contracts, and are now trying to renegotiate them.</p><p></p><p>The story doesn't actually say that nobody realized that Fox is the majority owner of the Big10 media rights, but it heavily implies it. I find it impossible to believe that the Big10, Fox, CBS, and NBC were in contract negotiations and there wasn't a single lawyer in the large group of lawyers that they would have in such negotiations that was competent enough to read contracts. EDIT: If the lawyers involved were not competent enough to read existing contracts and understand them, then they are not competent to draft new contracts.</p><p></p><p>I think it is far more likely that some of the schools want to renege or renegotiate. They are scapegoating Warren publicly in order to try to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 948216, member: 2426"] I am skeptical of the entire story. The schools might be unhappy with some things in the proposed contracts. However, Warren has been with the Bears since January. Even if he did negotiate in secret, without the approval or authority to do so, the conference has had four months to catch up on what was going on. ESPN had reported that the contracts were completed last August. The way the story reads, the contracts are not finalized and the entire conference was simply ignoring contract negotiations for four months. The report that "Recently, schools have found out:" is rubbish. Even if Warren negotiated in total secrecy last year, he would have had lawyers working with him on all of the contracts. Even if he kept the information secret from the schools and every person who works for the conference, that information would have been accessible to the conference employees and the schools as soon as he left. Either Warren negotiated in complete secrecy, and then the schools totally ignored $1 billion per year of contracts when he left (which I doubt); or; The schools were unhappy with items in the contracts, and are now trying to renegotiate them. The story doesn't actually say that nobody realized that Fox is the majority owner of the Big10 media rights, but it heavily implies it. I find it impossible to believe that the Big10, Fox, CBS, and NBC were in contract negotiations and there wasn't a single lawyer in the large group of lawyers that they would have in such negotiations that was competent enough to read contracts. EDIT: If the lawyers involved were not competent enough to read existing contracts and understand them, then they are not competent to draft new contracts. I think it is far more likely that some of the schools want to renege or renegotiate. They are scapegoating Warren publicly in order to try to do so. [/QUOTE]
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