It's better if everyone else starts streaming on just a couple of different platforms. It's worse if every conference gets its own streaming provider. I like watching PAC after dark, but I usually fall asleep during it and I'm not going to buy an extra package specifically to watch it.
I don't think it's unrealistic to expect 2 playoff teams and 10 tournament teams most years. No idea how much money that equates or what assumptions the article made.
That article lists two figures. Total revenues of $41M-$43M per team that include Tier 3 and other revenue sources like the NCAA tournament and CFP, but the media deal is for $31.66M per team. The $31.66M is what the Pac deal is being compared to and it does not include Tier 3.
No, the Big 12 schools sell their T3 rights separate from their media deal. So it's actually apples to apples if the figure doesn't include revenue from the PAC 12 network.
There isn't any reason for a grant of rights to last longer than the Big 12's media deal, and that's short enough that I'd rather not have UW or UO if they might leaver earlier than that. The ACC's mistake was signing a 20 year media deal. They aren't falling apart because of their grant of rights. They are falling apart because FSU doesn't want UCF to have a better media deal than them.
I'm not sure if the expanded playoff really allows for this. That's a lot of potential games you are asking your champion to play, especially if you are unlikely to get a playoff bye.
Their decline had everything to do with their recruiting scandal, along with the female kicker telling the story about how she was raped by her teammates and Gary Barnett chiming in that she was an awful player. At that point, the school cared enough to not drop football, but they stopped caring enough to be competitive.
It has more to do with the university presidents than anything else. They couldn't be bothered to associate with schools in Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma that admit anyone who can score a 24 on the ACT, and now they only have themselves to associate with.
I don't really see the Big 10 ever wanting Oregon. The ACC isn't in very good shape, and I think they value North Carolina and Virginia over Oregon and Washington.
They've already played in the title game twice. And their historic ceiling in the Big 8 and Big 12 was about 8 wins. This is a program that hasn't won a conference championship since the 60s. Pinkel had them playing above their ceiling, but since he left, they have been back to normal.
I feel like people are forgetting just how terrible A&M was during their last 15 years or so in the Big 12. The Fran and Sherman years were not good for them. They have had a couple of very good (for them) years in the SEC.
Missouri has won the SEC East twice. That's no less successful than they were in the Big 12 and they have predictably reverted to their norm post-Pinkel.
The only school that has been a hilarious failure is Nebraska.