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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

Unfortunately the Neer’s didn’t show up to play in their own building. Way to let the big 12 down