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Aug 1, 2015
10:53:21am
With the Big10 now on board counting BYU as P5....Do we really need B12?
I thought the idea and problem was not being able to schedule the P5 teams. To me it looks like the door is open for us. If we were in the Big 12, they'd stick us playing the junk teams. Now we get a better variety and can choose the cream from the other conferences. Nebraska instead on Kansas. UCLA instead of Iowa State. Then there is the bowl tie in. Why would we want in to an at large bowl? Its not the playoff. The idea is the playoff. We need to shoot for that and make the schedule tough. But I am sure that can be done too as money talks. Also we can get creative and make our own bowl with Notre Dame or another high caliber team that got snubbed. ND might do an agreement like that if we want to get creative since their access is somewhat limited by the ACC. Of course it may piss off the new years 6 bowls in terms of dollars because it would be based off of viewership more than anything. They may not appreciate a non at large bowl game getting higher ratings but things really are changing on the TV dollars front. ESPN and FOX are cutting costs. Why? They are losing money. Cable is dying. Disney President said a month ago that ESPN will be more of an app in a few years more than on cable and its starting. I understand that BYU is working to do the same thing to broadcast BYUTV on many devices. I am not too confident the same money will be available to these conferences when they expire. Which to me also tells me BYU will not get as much either. But what BYU has that other schools do not is the availability to broadcast any game with the BYUTV tech. Getting nationwide advertising to compete with ESPN might not be too difficult by then if the games are high profile teams. But who really knows? Most other sports are going with their own apps. NFL is also strongly considering it and will likely ditch the Sunday ticket. By then BYUTV might have more juice for getting advertising dollars. To me I think it would be wise to not give up any tier rights to anyone. Perhaps I just really enjoy being independent. Also remember all is never well in the big12. Four great institutions left and 2 little guys came in. And now they have problems again. As for other sports? Everyone says we are playing basketball in over-sized high school gyms. OK, we should only have that attitude when we dominate those schools on the court. Till then its Independence for me.
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