Big 12/Pac 10 TV Deal Becoming Reality?

OB($) caught up with Pac 10 commissioner Larry Scott on Monday to discuss a possible TV deal between the two conferences. Makes a lot of sense. Free article at the time of this post.

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Interesting

The article states that the Pac 10 and Big XII are looking to create a football version of the Hardwood Series.

I had assumed that the creation of such a series would be in the context of a larger joint television package between the conferences, but that doesn’t seem to be contemplated, they way I am reading the article.

Is the Big XII really going to be saved by having a few games like OSU-OSU, A&M-ASU and ISU-UCLA on the schedule? (Those three matchups selected by looking at matching teams which finished the same place in each confrence.)

by Hopkins Horn on May 25, 2010 5:26 PM CDT reply actions

Probably not

I wonder how A&M-ASU would view in the LA market. I think you’d have to have a more broad-based package (more games-one good thing about the time difference) to sell it. But they might do something like the Hardwood Series for say 2012-2015 to test the waters in anticipation of future realignment.

You could have USC-Texas right on your regular season doorstep! I would love to see the prime time ratings for that matchup.

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by SpiritOfTheFedora on May 25, 2010 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions

I really don't think the SEC was really boosted much by Kentucky-Mississippi St.

It’s simply the matter that there would generally be a dynamite matchup any given week, unless I’m not guessing at the content of the article correctly.

There, I said it: articles on expansion and collaboration are pretty common, so I don’t even read them anymore. Sue me.

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by burntorangehorn on May 25, 2010 8:08 PM CDT up reply actions

Beebe is such a disappointment as a commissioner

how can these two NOT look at the potentual of a joint television network between the Big 12 and Pac-10, a network that covers all major markets in the Big 12 and Pac-10, or 33% of the television sets in the nation?

If Scott wants to go it alone with a television network for the Pac-10, you’d expect Beebe to be looking at forming our own network for the Big 12, but I don’t think he is that forward thinking.

The television deal and the television money is the big thing here. If I were Beebe, I’d tell Scott having a non-conference series with the Big 12 in football is contingent on having a joint television network; we’re raising the profile of the Pac-10 by playing them in football, we need to get something in return. That something is the television network.

Of course, this would require Beebe being proactive, which we all know he isn’t.

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by Beergut on May 26, 2010 2:07 AM CDT reply actions