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http://www.today.com/entertainment/ohio-state-band-moonwalks-giant-michael-jackson-formation-across-football-8C11422539. If you like the King of Pop you'll love this!! Skip to 4:20 for the really cool part.
Skip to 4:20 for the really cool part.
Guess how much money Oregon and Oregon State made from the Pac-12 Networks last year.The answer is ... none, as in zero. Zilch.Oregon isn't projecting any revenue from the Pac-12 Networks for the current fiscal year, either.That annual $20 million to $24 million in television money that was expected to come to the Pac-12 schools has been light so far.
Maybe, as we sail further into this world of 24/7 sports programming, there is a saturation point. Maybe we've reached it.I'm a Comcast subscriber. Last Saturday, there were 25 games available to me. Two were on the Pac-12 Networks. One of those was the Arizona State-Colorado mismatch, which realistically was over in the first quarter.Had I been at home on the couch with beer and popcorn, I could have survived nicely without ASU-CU, and received my Pac-12 football fix from California-UCLA or Oregon State-Washington State, which were on ESPN2 and ESPNU at the same time.The late night telecasts are a separate but also troubling issue for the Pac-12 schools. For those of us at the northern end of the conference, night games mean an often-uncomfortable evening in the elements followed by a drive home of several hours or more in the wee hours.For Oregon State, in the midst of a series of four, consecutive night games, this is a missed opportunity to showcase quarterback Sean Mannion. Mannion, to date the NCAA's leading passer, has been playing after the population centers in the east have turned in for the night.But that battle was lost the day the Pac-12 agreed to fill programming holes in the ESPN and Fox array of channels in turn for the $3 billion.
If we expand past 10 I can say with 100% confidence Cincy will be number 11. Take that to the bank.
Quote from: scottwildcat on November 04, 2013, 11:50:14 PMIf we expand past 10 I can say with 100% confidence Cincy will be number 11. Take that to the bank.Yeah, the real question is who will be number 12. A lot are saying BYU but I don't see that happening, as the Big 12 would cover 3 time zones. Some are saying UCF or USF, but they just aren't that appealing at all imo.
Quote from: PowercatPat on November 04, 2013, 11:53:46 PMQuote from: scottwildcat on November 04, 2013, 11:50:14 PMIf we expand past 10 I can say with 100% confidence Cincy will be number 11. Take that to the bank.Yeah, the real question is who will be number 12. A lot are saying BYU but I don't see that happening, as the Big 12 would cover 3 time zones. Some are saying UCF or USF, but they just aren't that appealing at all imo.We won't add any of those 3.
Quote from: scottwildcat on November 04, 2013, 11:57:12 PMQuote from: PowercatPat on November 04, 2013, 11:53:46 PMQuote from: scottwildcat on November 04, 2013, 11:50:14 PMIf we expand past 10 I can say with 100% confidence Cincy will be number 11. Take that to the bank.Yeah, the real question is who will be number 12. A lot are saying BYU but I don't see that happening, as the Big 12 would cover 3 time zones. Some are saying UCF or USF, but they just aren't that appealing at all imo.We won't add any of those 3.If we added Cincinnati, which we won't, the obvious 12th would be UCONN, which won't happen either.
I'd be "meh, okay" with Cincinnati if BYU was in the mix too.
I think our time would be better spent getting rid of the teams we don't like.
I don't want any of them. Gross. If we are going to think about adding any teams, I want us to coerce Clemson and FSU by flaunting our wealth. I hope FSU gets snubbed this year in the National Championship game just so FSU has more to be angry about. Go big or stay at 10 and hope we don't crumble.
