Pac-12/Big 10/Big 12 Realignment

[UOducksTK1]

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Still no deal.

[greenyellow]

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[Alan]

So another “nothing to see here”? Sad…..

[pezsez1]

Nice update from JC. That said, I wouldn't consider "final approval" to be as clean as it sounds. That could be PR-speak for "Arizona is leaving, and we'd rather they go first so the rest of us could approve this unanimously and officially have their stuff."

But "excited and aligned" is definitely better than "wandering naked and alone in the dark" so that's something.

[DuckMastaFunk]

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If the Pac is falling apart, Canzano's sources (likely high ranking people in the ADs) have zero interest in it falling apart before they have secured a landing spot. We have no idea if this report is accurate or AD posturing.

[SuperDuck]

Nice update from JC. That said, I wouldn't consider "final approval" to be as clean as it sounds. That could be PR-speak for "Arizona is leaving, and we'd rather they go first so the rest of us could approve this unanimously and officially have their stuff."

But "excited and aligned" is definitely better than "wandering naked and alone in the dark" so that's something.

I don't see Arizona leaving without ASU. They more or less have a vested interest in each other.

Them leaving could encourage Utah to leave, as well. That would hurt.

[DuckMastaFunk]

Also, the idea that the representatives at the meeting didn't have authority to approve a deal over a certain dollar figure is strange. I mean, they all knew what would be happening during this meeting, right?

[pezsez1]

Also, the idea that the representatives at the meeting didn't have authority to approve a deal over a certain dollar figure is strange. I mean, they all knew what would be happening during this meeting, right?

That's partly why I think this may be PR-speak for "let Arizona (and maybe others) go and then the rest of us can get this moving."

[greenyellow]

Only the streaming portion has somewhat leaked but the linear side still seems up in the air.

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[GDuck]

Streaming only would be terrible for the conference.

[pezsez1]

I love the idea of mostly streaming. Accessible anywhere. Cheap. No need for so many night games. Can improve the stadium product. It is the future. Production and content quality would be top notch. Much better than being cable's nighttime fallback.

[greenyellow]

This news of the streaming component sucks because it actually makes MHver3 look right when all he's been doing is throwing out rumors after reading multiple message boards and hoping something he regurgitated stuck.

[GDuck]

I love the idea of mostly streaming. Accessible anywhere. Cheap. No need for so many night games. Can improve the stadium product. It is the future.

Not surprising we disagree. Steaming is losing money all over the place - Netflix is really the only one consistently making money. Those that don’t will not survive. Not cheap if you need to buy it along with your cable/dish/other streaming services. Not sure about night games - Pac-12 has a monopoly at 7pm and would be foolish to give that up.

Can’t flip between games easily. For Amazon NFL there were buffering/quality issues and the video was delayed quite a bit from the real time events. Number of eyes on the games will be a lot less and the conference/teams won’t be talked about as much. Pre and post game shows attention will be much reduced. I’m okay with a combo of steaming and linear.

When they final figure out how to make money streaming, the conference won’t be around.

[justin_f]

I love the idea of mostly streaming. Accessible anywhere. Cheap. No need for so many night games. Can improve the stadium product. It is the future. Production and content quality would be top notch. Much better than being cable's nighttime fallback.

Don't know a single person irl excited about streaming. Will be a disaster with every duck fan I know

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[pezsez1]

We know different Duck fans then. I don't know anyone who doesn't stream something. And cable is slowly dying among younger audiences.