Peak Perspective: Q&A With KC Smurthwaite on Consulting and College Football
KC provides details and theories surrounding conference realignment, media deals, and more.
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Big 12 here we come!
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Man I hope he's right! If true them staying in this crappy MW would have been worth it!
All UNLV has to do is to keep winning! Also, the hiring of Mullen and the commitment to pay him $3.5+ mill shows UNLV's is serious when it comes to football. Just continue WINNING and the Big 12 will happen!
Can I “double” like this!
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Well when it comes to being scorned by power 4 conferences nobody is more familiar than OSU/WSU.
So we'll trust your expertise on this subject. 😄
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UNLV is spending the money and setting themselves up to be in the right position for any future expansion. A big sign to show that UNLV is all in will be if in the next couple of days they fire Kruger for basketball and pay off the millions that it will cost to buy out his contract, as well as spend the money to upgrade the basketball coach?
You both suck. That's all.....
I kid I kid, you're my favorite fan of any school that destroyed my conference.
Way better that those OSU fans.
The
Worst!
They are a baseball school. Just beat my Cougs in a 2-game set. They are P4 bound for sure.
They are not.
Although if they did and left the rest of you guys behind I would laugh..Not at WSU but the USU coat tail riders who seem to think they were a part of the grand plan and not the fall back option when the AAC schools saud no.
Look - I've said it many times before over the last year-plus and will keep saying it. F-ing Teresa Gould (aka homely bitch) totally disregarded the obvious written reverse merger plan and F-ed both of our conferences.
The Pac-? is a joke. The MW is damaged more than badly. I'm telling you, it's not to late. The new Alaska Air Pac-Mtn 16/18 could still happen. But, we are ruled by bitches with egos and unresolved frustrations over not ever having had a guy like the Mighty Loyal Coug.
Now if cooler and smarter heads (I have 2
) prevail, Gloria will take over the Pac-16/18 and will hire me as her "personal" assistant.
Not too late for you to join the MW and leave OSU behind.Look - I've said it many times before over the last year-plus and will keep saying it. F-ing Teresa Gould (aka homely bitch) totally disregarded the obvious written reverse merger plan and F-ed both of our conferences.
The Pac-? is a joke. The MW is damaged more than badly. I'm telling you, it's not to late. The new Alaska Air Pac-Mtn 16/18 could still happen. But, we are ruled by bitches with egos and unresolved frustrations over not ever having had a guy like the Mighty Loyal Coug.
Now if cooler and smarter heads (I have 2
We need a new name because there is no P4 it’s the P2, then ACC Big12 then G5. So what is ACC/Big12 called next two? N2
My guess.
It's going to be 1 mega conference/governing body with four regional pods.
Question is how many teams get the invite to it.
Too big you dilute the revenue. Too few, same thing, because you alienate a lot of fan bases who won't watch anymore.
What that number is, I don't know.
Honestly it's tricky. You trim it down too much and you alienate a lot of potential viewers.
1 super conference with revenue tiers, and with promotion & relegation
It's been floated but the logistics would be tough. I don't hate the idea completely though.
I like the thought of an East and West conference divided into regional divisions. Very similar to the NFL. IMO, it falls out to between 60 and 80 teams total.
100%
You do not want to get left out of this round of realingment.
I think around 80 is the right number. Keeps it streamlined enough that there's plenty of $ to go around without alienating too many fan bases.
Say it was 48, that's going to be a lot of disgruntled fan bases who may decide they are done with college football. That would impact viewership.
I don't think there is a media company that would be willing to pay for a monopoly. That's freaking expensive. Lets say the mouse bought it. Lets say Disney was willing to eat the cost of what would definitely be a loss; what is your outlet to the masses? ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN+. Disney also owns Fox, so lets include FS1 and FS2. That's 6 media channel outlets in total.
Football games at best are 3 hours a piece without commercials or anything funny happening. You can show 6 of them at one time (12 teams), and you can do this 4 times on a Saturday if you run them exactly every 3 hours per channel from 9am EST to 9pm EST.
If we're looking at 80 schools, you account for 12 schools per time block, or 48 schools on a Saturday. Are you really going to squish the remainder 32 schools into Friday? You'd have to go to the weekdays.
Which brands get delt the Epic ESPN Tuesday night NCAA action? Do you only keep the former big10 and sec schools Saturday only? Are you forcing teams to play at 3pm EST on a Friday? What does that do your for attendance? How much does your viewership on the west coast drop if a game is kicking off at noon PST?
Even on a Saturday, 1/3rd of your games will be on ESPNU and ESPN+. That's terrible for viewership numbers. Which 16 schools get delt the bad hand? Are you willing to subsidies the cost of these games equal to one on your main channels? Someone is losing money somewhere.
So you're left to dealing the additional games out to other networks. Sure. That's a reasonable solution. Networks trade games as it is. But if I am CBS, would I really pay top dollar for the leftovers? My branding isn't on it. Media companies do work together at times, but they're still competitors.
No doubt it would take multiple entities due to costs.. Similiar to How NFC/AFC are split between Fox and CBS.
That's a little bit different though. There is a clear divide there. If you're eliminating conferences, how do you slice the pie? Wouldn't it be the same thing with different branding if you end up segmenting the conferences you just eliminated?
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