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33laszlo99

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Is that a P5 conference?


An exercise: Remove Texas from that list of yours. Do the remaining schools constitute a P5 conference? If you're a media company (ESPN i.e.) would you pay $30 million per year, per school to that crew? Does adding Texas back into the mix change your mind? If you're Texas, would you sign up for this conference knowing that it cannot attract P5 money? Oh sure, Texas has a bottomless pit of donor money. Will that help them reconcile the indignity of a seat at the kiddie table? Texas is leaving the Big 12. Just have to wonder where they go.
When Syracuse, Pitt, WV, Rutgers and TCU were added to P5 conferences, they each were being paid, maybe, 1.5 million. Today they are making $30 or $40 million each. ESPN took at least a $150 million beating per year from those moves. The Big 12 was sent a clear message from ESPN during their "talent search" that ESPN would not permit any more promotions from G5 to P5.
After the next realignment (Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas) there will be fewer than sixty P5 conference members. ESPN will regard that as poetic justice for the extra expense incurred from those last five promotions.

(In response to this post by SoCloseHokie)

Posted: 05/08/2018 at 08:44AM



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Starting to believe.. -- SoCloseHokie 05/08/2018 04:48AM
  Is that a P5 conference? -- 33laszlo99 05/08/2018 08:44AM
  I agree but -- SoCloseHokie 05/08/2018 08:56AM
  Nevada Reno & Boise State -- HOO86 05/08/2018 10:48PM
  SDSU would be a good addition, but... -- EDGEMAN 05/09/2018 11:25AM
  Huge difference between NC and CA.... -- CrystalCoveHokie 05/09/2018 11:44AM
  But... -- SoCloseHokie 05/08/2018 08:25AM
  Just depends — if ok and Kansas jumps -- Mercury 05/08/2018 07:48AM
  Bingo - UT forms their own conference; KS + OU to B1G ** -- nebraskafaninwi 05/08/2018 07:31AM
  KU. Not KS! Right? -- SoCloseHokie 05/08/2018 07:49AM
  Would the ACC even consider adding WVU at #15? -- VTHokie2000 05/09/2018 12:25PM
  Don't need non-football members. -- HOO86 05/09/2018 1:13PM

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