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John Kurtz
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Ready to be the smartest college football fan in your group chat?
I spent a decade traveling across the country as a TV and radio broadcaster covering college football, and I'm using that experience to make you a smarter fan.
Catch my live shows on Wednesday and Sunday nights at 8:00 Central to get my reaction to the sport's latest games and breaking news. I'm not just reading a box score; I'm giving you a big-picture view of what it all means. You can even voice your opinion in the live chat with thousands of other college football fans from across the country.
It doesn't stop at live shows, though. You'll also get videos that dive deeper into college football’s best players, biggest personalities, and most memorable moments.
I'm from Big 12 country, so you'll get a perspective that isn't totally centered around the SEC or Big Ten, but make no mistake, if it's important to college football on or off the field, I'm covering it.
I can't wait to see you soon in the live chats!
I spent a decade traveling across the country as a TV and radio broadcaster covering college football, and I'm using that experience to make you a smarter fan.
Catch my live shows on Wednesday and Sunday nights at 8:00 Central to get my reaction to the sport's latest games and breaking news. I'm not just reading a box score; I'm giving you a big-picture view of what it all means. You can even voice your opinion in the live chat with thousands of other college football fans from across the country.
It doesn't stop at live shows, though. You'll also get videos that dive deeper into college football’s best players, biggest personalities, and most memorable moments.
I'm from Big 12 country, so you'll get a perspective that isn't totally centered around the SEC or Big Ten, but make no mistake, if it's important to college football on or off the field, I'm covering it.
I can't wait to see you soon in the live chats!
Big 12 Beware: Former Fox Executive's UConn Warning
Former Fox Sports Networks President Bob Thompson joins me to discuss the risk of adding UConn for the Big 12. Would it actually make financial sense to do it?
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One Thing Crashing the Big 12/ACC Playoff Party
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One team is already looking to crash the Big 12 and ACC playoff party by keeping both leagues from getting a second team in. Get “Open For Business” a Big 12 newsletter sending the key headlines, interviews, and my analysis straight to your inbox. No more college football news through an SEC/Big Ten lens. If you're a Big 12 fan (or just curious), sign up below! bit.ly/OFBNews12YT Don’t miss col...
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What Changed w/ Florida State’s Realignment Situation Saturday
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Florida State took one on the chin on Saturday in Ireland, but does it affect anything in the big picture? Get “Open For Business” A Big 12 newsletter sending the key headlines, interviews, and my analysis straight to your inbox. No more college football news through an SEC/Big Ten lens. If you're a Big 12 fan (or just curious), sign up below! bit.ly/OFBNews12YT Don’t miss college football and ...
UConn to the Big 12 is Very Real
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Multiple reports confirm that Brett Yormark and UConn have been in deep talks about the Huskies joining the Big 12. But how much of a financial risk is it for the Big 12? And does it even make sense for UConn? Get “Open For Business” A Big 12 newsletter sending the key headlines, interviews, and my analysis straight to your inbox. No more college football news through an SEC/Big Ten lens. If yo...
College Football Coaches Deal With New Dilema
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Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy details a new problem facing college football coaches in 2024. Should he have just not said anything about it? Get “Open For Business” A Big 12 newsletter sending the key headlines, interviews, and my analysis straight to your inbox. No more college football news through an SEC/Big Ten lens. If you're a Big 12 fan (or just curious), sign up below! bit.ly/OFB...
Big 12 Coach Unloads on ESPN
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A Big 12 coach is not very happy with the four letter network, and he took to SEC network to voice his opinion. Get “Open For Business” A Big 12 newsletter sending the key headlines, interviews, and my analysis straight to your inbox. No more college football news through an SEC/Big Ten lens. If you're a Big 12 fan (or just curious), sign up below! bit.ly/OFBNews12YT Don’t miss college football...
Major Roadblock for FSU/Clemson to the Big 12
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Jon Wilner from the Wilner Hotline and San Jose Mercury News joins me to breakdown the chances of Clemson and Florida State winding up in the Big 12. Plus, a great idea for the Big 12 to make more money. Follow Jon on Twitter: x.com/wilnerhotline Read Jon's work: www.mercurynews.com/tag/wilner-hotline/ Get “Open For Business” A Big 12 newsletter sending the key headlines, interviews, and my ana...
The Pac-12 Didn’t Have to Die (The Real Story)
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Is the Big 12 Getting National Respect?
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Is Everyone Lying About Florida State and Clemson?
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Inside Look: Big 12's Marketing Masterplan | Big 12 CMO
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Why Nick Saban Is Fuming Over the Big 12
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College Football's Most Underrated Rivalry
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Miami, Louisville, NC State, and Virginia Tech Big 12 Bound?
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Shocking Report: Florida State and Clemson Denied by SEC and Big Ten...For Now
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Ross Dellenger Thinks The Big 12 and Florida State/Clemson Have Talked
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Golda Squares
I don't think the trancontinental travel for our Western partners is worth UConn's inclusion. 2 East Coast teams are enough until the ACC folds. Yormark needs to keep in his lane and let the Presidents decide.
If the ACC depletes out so heavily that it dissolves, it won't matter much. That would likely require an ~24-each then P2, and KANSAS and some 4Cs would also be consolidated.
It will make for more travel that we do not need.
LMAO Truck Stop Magic Vibes FAILED AGAIN
Nobody watches the nfl.
John hates Arizona State.
Stop trying to use the P2 as a measure for the Big 12. I love the MLS. It's never going to be Premier League and La Liga. All of the WVU hype last week did nothing but convince you to find a new hype team of the week. Big 12 teams load up on a weak Big 12 schedule and try to go to the playoffs. Then you get upset the ratings and revenue isn't there.
So, would ypu root for any BIG 12 team for the sake of the BIG 12, or would you apply any exception?
Damn sorry I missed this. I want NU and CU play a 0-0 game and got to 20 overtimes before settling it with a coin flip. Also, F KU.
We should be able to include UConn if we separate basketball from football.
UCONN is only interested in the BIG12 to elevate its football. If the BIG12 won't take all sports, it's not a win/win deal.
Ute fans are rooting AGAINST CU. 🤦 UTEs are rooting AGAINST our conference. How are they a top 100 Academic institution? Rooting against our league is stupid and short sighted.
Because they are not a top 100 academic institution.
Big 12 has interest in UConn and had meetings and took an informal vote. Meanwhile, crickets on OSU and WSU. Pac-2 needs to realize no power conference wants them.
Big XII schools have experienced a lot of change & need to stand pat to settle in to their current situation. UConn can eventually join if it makes sense. Yormark needs to cool it.
Hard to understand how the Presidents value their own expertise as to brand and market value over the expert (Brett Y) who just resurrected the conference from the ashes. Even though the big 12 basketball from an analytics is at the top, if you ask the average fan on street they don’t see that.. That’s why you need brands like UConn. Plus UConn strength will offset the weakness of UCF, Colorado, ASU, and other recent adds that weaken BB. Seems kind of insulting honestly to Brett Yormark
Not interested!
UConn’s value is basically Fox’s new Big East TV contract. If UConn leaves, Fox reduces the Big East payout to pennies on the dollar, so moving UConn from the Big East to B12 is like moving money from right pocket to left pocket. ESPN also wants UConn’s rights and will pay, so the B12 should leverage ESPN’s offer for a greater payout. The value is there if the B12 is smart and doesn’t want to be shutout from the Northeast
ND vs A&M was a beautiful game.
the Big East's new media deal with FOX, NBC Sports & TNT Sports has contractual language that would lower the value of the pact if a school, let's say UConn
The most compelling reason to covet UConn is that Yormark covets UConn. He's built a lot of trust equity.
I'm no expert but as the media landscape shrinks, sports are more in demand, and sports like Men's and Women's college basketball provide a huge amount of inventory of games, I only see their value increasing. Football will always be king but companies typically bundle things when they want to provide a discount. So it stands to reason that unbundling them would provide more revenue for the schools. I can also see how ESPN and Fox would want to try to force the conferences to keep the media rights as one package both for lower prices but also to keep a stranglehold on the industry. If they get it all, that means NBC, Amazon, or Netfix etc. can't get it.
Florida State has been doing a lot of talking. Exactly. And they come in here and pretend that they are victims or martyrs or something special because people hate them. People hate them because of all that smack talk about how they’re special and better when they are no such thing.
very few watches basketball on tv.
If Brett Yormark is right and basketball is 30% of the Big 12 viewship. Then, the tv networks have been ripping off the conferences. At least they've ripped off the Big 12. Keeping the getting underpaid for certain sports because it's not football isn't something these conferences can do any longer. These networks want a mini NFL and pushed paying student athletes. Well, you gotta pay these conferences.
laughable
@@merl-bz1bx - Just like your stupidity in defending the stupid networks!
Well said! Especially as cable tv keeps shrinking the demand for live sports as an anchor draw is only getting bigger and bigger. We keep seeing these tv "blackouts" with Xfinity and DirecTV getting squeezed by Disney and the Big 10 for more money because they know they have the leverage. So I'm certain the networks are downplaying the real value of basketball to get an artificially low price on the rights
@@AdmiralSnackbar247 Streaming shrank as well in 2022 and 2023. It isn’t just cable.
Guest: Don't break off basketball because you might eliminate some buyers who want all-in-one deals. Me: Who in the hell would eliminate themselves because they got to pick a-la-carte instead of being handed a package deal? With a-la-carte, the buyer is happier because they don't have to take something they don't want and the seller is happier because they can find the highest bidder for that asset instead of giving it to someone who doesn't value it.
I think it would be the opposite of what this guy said. Splitting off basketball seems like it would get more interest and more bidders for the rights, and more exposure for all the teams.
Except what other potential bidders that could afford to pay for stand alone basketball rights aren't also bidding for the football rights? The media industry is highly concentrated to a handful of companies, most if not all who, if they had the capital to invest in basketball, wouldn't rather invest that money in football at this time. As Bob Thompson rightly called out, you're potentially reducing your bidding interest.
@@reverend_wintondupree other potential bidders could be TNT, Amazon, Netflix (who is going to televise live wrestling), or fast tv
@@reverend_wintondupree Just because a certain set of media buyers are involved with wanting Football and Basketball, does not mean that the highest bidder for football and the highest bidder for basketball would necessarily be the same company. Might be, but might not be. With a-la-carte you can find out who is the highest bidder for each product.
The Big 12 has an extremely overinflated impression of their football relevance. None of the Big 12 teams have any football value to the nation. None.
None? That's a bit extreme. It's some value. Maybe not Big 10 or SEC. But definitely far above G5 or none.
...yeah...Big 10 & SEC don't have any over-inflated opinions of themselves...Jesus H. Christ...who isn't riveted to watching Indiana, Rutgers, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Purdue, South Carolina, Minnesota, Arkansas, a shitty Michigan State team & what looks to be a shitty Florida team...LOL! ...& if you want to brag up Georgia, Alabama, LSU & Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State...I turn to the other games because I'm so effin' sick of their over-saturated games...& I think you'll find that's the trend because the rest of the country is tired of those same teams as well...
Ill start by saying that Mr. Thompson is an actual professional in this business and I am not. Having said that, I think he is off base with the basketball numbers. Last year ISU at KSU drew 418K viewers at 2:45 Eastern on a Saturday on ESPN2. That what San Diego State vs Oregon State drew in week 3 at 3:30 PM on FS1...for football. the next week OSU at ISU drew 444K on FS1 for football. KState at KU drew 800K on a Tuesday night on ESPN for a game that started at 9:22 Eastern. In Week 8 UVA at UNC drew 788K. A lot of the realignment talk has been about the value of UNC and UVA (less UVA) and a 6:30pm Saturday game between them is getting out drawn by KState/KU that ended just before midnight on a week night. KU at Houston drew 1.1m on a Saturday afternoon. I think he has it all wrong on the "commodity" part of college basketball. Having 30+ games per team is an advantage, not a disadvantage. Because of streaming, you dont have to gamble on putting the "right" game on in any given time slot and you are not going to lose viewers because their team wasn't chosen. Every game is available, you just have to choose the right stream. Oh and you can charge them for access to that stream so you can cover all your cost for the entire season just off subscriptions. Its a lot easier to get 200K people to watch 2 games in a week than get 6.4m people to watch one game but 200K x 32 games (16 teams, 2 games a week) is 6.4m viewers. Georgia at Tennessee got 5.7m viewers last year and was the number 1 game of week 12.
ISU and KSU aren't Leastern Time Zone, Rock-Enter-Titan-At-Round-Down!
This executive still living in the days of linear tv. Way out of touch.
UConn and Gonzaga are not interesting to the Southwest. I would rather have SMU.
Too bad TCU would block that.
@@psychopathyoutubeemployees280 No they wouldn’t.
@@RAJohns - And what makes you think they want a fifth Texas school!?!
@@psychopathyoutubeemployees280 Why not? Texas is huge. Centrally located to all the schools. Fly right into Love Field. Play in the Cotton Bowl if a home big game. If Louisville does not make the jump go the Big XII, no one else will. They don’t want crime-ridden Memphis, Tulane.
SMU people are awful and deserve to be with the Cal/Stanford fans. Nobody wants them.
He's rattling on irrelavant BS. Keep him on point.
I'm sorry, executives are way too conservative. And face it, he's srriously dated. John, hold your ground. You are on the right path. Let your guest continue to feed the mafia's wrong path.
Thanks for this interview with an industry professional. I've been saying that UConn gives the Big 12 a foothold in the NYC metro area market. The Big 10 has Rutgers which is in New Jersey which is also in the NYC metro area.
NYC and the state of NY don't care for CFB...
Maybe not on a percentage basis but sheer tv value in the northeast is silly to ignore based on population base
@@tomdubay2225 I don't know man, it's like selling Idaho peaches in Georgia. You'll get a handful of people that buy an Idaho peach once just to try it, but at the end of the day they're stocking their pantries with Georgia peach products (NFL)
...sorry, Rutgers & the overwhelming majority of the Big 10 does NOT even make the needle quiver, let alone move it regarding NY/eastern seaboard sports viewership...Knicks, Nets, Celtics, 76ers, Wizards then Rangers, Bruins, Caps, Flyers dominate "winter" sports viewership...college hoops is maybe 9th on the list...women's college hoops is maybe 27th behind televised ice fishing, curling, winter-league lacrosse & the freakin' Westminster Dog Show...
NY and NE are PRO Sports area . CF does not start until you reach Happy Valley. Everyone looks at the population and don’t realize they are PRO sports areas especially the Midwest and western party’s of the country. BB is big in College bit that is about it. UConn would be a BIG mistake for the B12 and hopefully that does not happen.
Didn’t Fox sign a new bigger deal with the BE? I could see Fox people would not want to see the “crown jewel of the BE” aka UConn leave right after it just signed this new contract with UConn being the most valuable college in the BE
No one cares
Fox getting Big Games on Big Nights for football on previously unused holiday season days will more than compensate todays $$$ lost by UConn moving.
Yup
Just another reason to do it, just to say For-Under-Car-Keys you to stupid TV networks like FOX for OVERPAYING conferences more money than they are worth!
@@J-bw4sr That precisely what other stories have called out to these rumors, FOX would not support the move as their BE deals value would diminish significantly.
I am always interested in what is Bob Thompson's take on realignment. Bob is very careful when comparing men's and women's TV value. ha ha
We definitely have a different definition of "ugly" 😁
2:56 “That schedule is not m***** row.” Let's take a look at the Powerhouse Kansas Jayhawks schedule below. 😂😂😂😂 Illinois UNLV West Virginia TCU Arizona State Houston Kansas State Iowa State BYU Colorado Baylor
I understand that "Brand Equity" is important in realignment and media rights contracts. But it is sickening (but true) that it has anything to do in selecting teams for the playoffs. Playoff contenders should be determined by this years record alone and nothing else.
They will lose three games
Lets go Irish
The Big 12 should be concerned about getting at least one school into the playoffs, as there’s a possibility they might miss out entirely.
Winner of the conference gets an automatic bid.
lol. There is NO possibility the Big XII misses out entirely. Conference champion automatically gets a top 4 seed. Homework, man.
Are you a PAC 2 fan, G 5 fan, or an ACC fan? Those are the Conferences that are below the B12. Along with half of the SEC, and B10.
@@JohnDry-d7z Moronic... The ACC remains clearly above the all Tier 1 rejects BIG12.
Will FSU go independent, or will the MAC take them? LOL! Clemson didn't look good either getting crushed by Georgia. Virginia Tech losing to Vanderbilt. Big 12 looking a whole lot better than the ACC!
I’m thinking that Florida state has the kind of Prestige and “blue-blood bona fides” that would allow it to bring back the metro conference. They could probably get a lot of conference USA who used to be the metro to come behind them in some sort of Seminole conference.
I always felt bad for the metro collapsing after Florida State left them for worse football but better name brands in the ACC.
@@jamesrawson241 It is crazy the number of conferences that have come and gone with all this craziness nowadays. The Big East, Pac 12, and the Southwest were power conferences. How about the Great Midwest Conference short lived as it was getting 3 teams in the elite 8 of the NCAA basketball Tournament, those teams came from the old Metro Conference.
@@robertrohde4579 South Carolina was in the metro too if I remember correctly
The WAC is barley hanging on right now.@@robertrohde4579
ACC will almost always get TWO teams in, ACC champ and Notre Dame(ACC team inelligible for ACC champ game by agreement of scheduling autonomy, save for the pandemic year when an exception for the championship game was made, and ND did compete for ACC Title..)...some years ACC will get a third. AND that Notre Dame schedule you read off, that is far more difficult than ANY Big 12 schedule, is the main reason why they'll trump any non champ Big12 team of the same record, every time.
lol
Is this guy for real? ☝️
(Save for UTAH, TCUvMichigan)what has any remaining B12 team ever won? B12 is glorified G5 bush-league . That's how the rest of country believes and will believe until proven otherwise
Everyone says Notre Dame has an “easy” schedule. Before they did the ACC thing, their schedule was exactly a BIG 10 Schedule. People forget the Michigan, Michigan St, and Penn State rivalries. Then when did made alliances with the ACC. Their strength of schedule was the same as Clemson's. Then if you want to get nerdy in the analytics. At worst their strength of schedule was 17. PLEASE NAME ONE LEGIT SCHOOL IN THE BIG IX??? Like KU has a chance to win your conference. One last point they always had to go through Reggie Bush’s dynasty era team in the regular season. Yes they lost, but it was the BCS days and 1 lost had you out of the BCS. They scheduled Ohio State and Georgia as a non-conferences games. As Regina George would say, “I can't help it that I am so popular.”
@@ryansteve2893 Big 10 fan here (Ohio State). Oklahoma State and Utah. These two schools are in the same tier I that Notre Dame is for EA College Sports. They receive the same $99K that Ohio State and Notre Dame receives. Personally, I think that either the SEC or my conference will pay you that 10% and get one of our schools in there.
Unfortunately the Neer’s didn’t show up to play in their own building. Way to let the big 12 down