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<blockquote data-quote="orientalnc" data-source="post: 953959" data-attributes="member: 1199"><p>From a friend who follows sports closer than almost all of us:</p><p></p><p>I can quickly understand why the Big-10 would be interested in Cal, Stanford and Washington. Those three schools are located in large TV markets and the big money in college football comes from TV revenues. “More money” is a powerful motivator. San Francisco is the 10th largest TV market in the US and Seattle is the 12th largest. However, the inclusion of Oregon on this list is interesting.</p><p></p><p>Over the past 10-15 years, Oregon has been a solid football program. Since the arrival of Chip Kelly in 2009, Oregon has been to the Rose Bowl 4 times and played in the National Championship Game in 2014. But Eugene Oregon is a flyspeck of a TV market; it ranks 119th in the US, one spot ahead of Macon, GA and six spots below Fargo, ND.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, there is a current PAC-12 team in a very large TV market not on this speculative list. That would be Arizona State sitting in the middle of the Phoenix, AZ TV market which is sandwiched right between San Francisco and Seattle. So, let me <strong><em>assume</em></strong> that the headline and report from yesterday is correct; what might that mean in terms of the thought processes ongoing in Big-10 HQs:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The conference wants the better team/program (Oregon) because it feels it already has three large TV markets on the West Coast covered?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Big-10 knows or thinks that the Big-12 has the origins of a deal in place already with Arizona State and does not want to get into a bidding war?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Arizona State does not want to go anywhere without Arizona and the Big-10 is not willing to take Arizona at the expense of Cal, Stanford and/or Washington?</li> </ul><p>Any or all those questions could be in play here; that would be grist for a discussion among people who cover college football closely – – not a <em>faux</em> debate among people who yell at one another on TV. But no matter the consensus that might arise regarding the behind-the-scenes machinations here, one thing is clear to me:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Pac-12 will cease to exist if Cal, Stanford, Washington and one other school go elsewhere.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orientalnc, post: 953959, member: 1199"] From a friend who follows sports closer than almost all of us: I can quickly understand why the Big-10 would be interested in Cal, Stanford and Washington. Those three schools are located in large TV markets and the big money in college football comes from TV revenues. “More money” is a powerful motivator. San Francisco is the 10th largest TV market in the US and Seattle is the 12th largest. However, the inclusion of Oregon on this list is interesting. Over the past 10-15 years, Oregon has been a solid football program. Since the arrival of Chip Kelly in 2009, Oregon has been to the Rose Bowl 4 times and played in the National Championship Game in 2014. But Eugene Oregon is a flyspeck of a TV market; it ranks 119th in the US, one spot ahead of Macon, GA and six spots below Fargo, ND. Meanwhile, there is a current PAC-12 team in a very large TV market not on this speculative list. That would be Arizona State sitting in the middle of the Phoenix, AZ TV market which is sandwiched right between San Francisco and Seattle. So, let me [B][I]assume[/I][/B] that the headline and report from yesterday is correct; what might that mean in terms of the thought processes ongoing in Big-10 HQs: [LIST] [*]The conference wants the better team/program (Oregon) because it feels it already has three large TV markets on the West Coast covered? [*]The Big-10 knows or thinks that the Big-12 has the origins of a deal in place already with Arizona State and does not want to get into a bidding war? [*]Arizona State does not want to go anywhere without Arizona and the Big-10 is not willing to take Arizona at the expense of Cal, Stanford and/or Washington? [/LIST] Any or all those questions could be in play here; that would be grist for a discussion among people who cover college football closely – – not a [I]faux[/I] debate among people who yell at one another on TV. But no matter the consensus that might arise regarding the behind-the-scenes machinations here, one thing is clear to me: [LIST] [*]The Pac-12 will cease to exist if Cal, Stanford, Washington and one other school go elsewhere. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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