College Football on Yik Yak | Since NIL the SEC has essentially become the new PAC-12. However, where as the PAC’s cannibalization resulted in sports media telling you every PAC team must be bad, the SEC’s results in sports media concluding every SEC team must just be that good.

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College Football 6d

Since NIL the SEC has essentially become the new PAC-12. However, where as the PAC’s cannibalization resulted in sports media telling you every PAC team must be bad, the SEC’s results in sports media concluding every SEC team must just be that good.

College Football 6d

This keeps reminding me of the public’s misconception that all of the SEC and all of the B10 are leaps and bounds above everyone else. It’s only the same teams carrying their conferences with a lot of deadweight

Anonymous 6d

The main difference being in that ESPN sponsored the SEC and so have a legion of commentators, influencers and journalists they use to promote them in order to make money. They’re just the PAC but worse in non football sports with better marketing

Anonymous

#1 6d

Ou and texas destroyed the pac 12 by not joining in 2010, then espn helped them join the sec in 2021

Anonymous

#2 6d

The PAC-12 could’ve easily survived this latest round of realignment, they didn’t even really need to add other teams if they didn’t want to. Their commissioner held out way too long to get a media deal done and as a result lost USC and UCLA and it spiraled from there

Anonymous

#1 6d

Idk why the big 10 even took ucla. Shouldve been just usc and oregon and maybe washington. Does anyone even watch ucla when usc and the rams exist?

Anonymous

#2 6d

USC and UCLA were a package deal. USC was leaving not anticipating the PAC to collapse. They save a lot of money by having UCLA as a travel partner + UCLA gets the Big 10 good exposure and access to the UC system

Anonymous

#2 6d

people in LA barely watch either so UCLA isn’t unique in that regard either

Anonymous

#1 6d

Actually rumors say that usc tried to block oregon from joining the big 10 because they knew the pac 12 was dying and wanted oregon to die

Anonymous

#2 6d

Oregon staying in the PAC would’ve kept it alive. Oregon and Washington deciding to leave was the killing the blow, even after Colorado leaving it was savable. There are a lot of rumors about USC being directly behind the media deal not getting done, but I don’t really buy into that

Anonymous

#1 6d

Yea usc tried to destroy the league and leave oregon behind. Scared mfs they gonna get rocked this year like they do against any good team

Anonymous

#2 6d

The PAC-12 was days away from adding San-Diego State, which is actually still in court today from the nonsense behind that. SMU was offering the same deal to join to them that they were to the ACC. Had they added SMU, SDSU, and assuming Colorado still bails early you could replace them with UNLV or Boise State, the PAC would still be here and maybe thriving

Anonymous

#1 6d

Whos the one suing?

Anonymous

#2 6d

USC administration balked at the first hint of ESPN money and are now cursed for permanent irrelevance as a result

Anonymous

#2 6d

Mountain West. They have a weird buyout policy that depends on when schools tell them they’re leaving. SDSU told the MW leadership kind off the record that they’re planning on it, and the MW was saying that was an official notice while SDSU denies that. Depending on the timing of when they told them, the buyout would be significantly higher, and now all of that was kind of pushed under the rug since the PAC died and is now being reborn

Anonymous

#1 6d

They wouldve been irrelevant anyway. Outside of McKay and Carroll what have they done anyway?

Anonymous

#1 6d

How is it sdsu’s fault that the conference they tried to enter doesnt exist anymore?

Anonymous

#2 6d

There one of the largest football brands in the country. A lot of appeal, but not really a lot of success. The move is only working for them because of money

Anonymous

#1 6d

Similar to miami imo

Anonymous

#2 6d

It isn’t, the MW leadership was almost as bad as the PACs

Anonymous

#1 6d

Lol

Anonymous

#2 6d

Pretty much. Plus being in LA helps with the media deal, making them a great add for anyone

Anonymous

#1 6d

Do people in la even care about college football? Even rams games get flooded with opposing fans, to the point where they had to block area codes

Anonymous

#2 6d

Not really, at least not LA teams. For NFL, I bet a lot of it has to do with the revolving door of teams over the last 60 years. For College, really only USC ever manages to fill up the Colosseum. Both the Colosseum and the Rose Bowl are in horrible condition and somewhat outdated, and the Rose Bowl is like an hour an away from their campus

Anonymous

#2 6d

The main value of LA is TV media deals. Media deals are always valued on the metric of how many people COULD watch a game, not really how many people actually do. That’s why LA is considered more valuable than Eugene for example, regardless of the team’s popularity

Anonymous

#1 6d

example - why the B10 added Rutgers and Maryland over Mizzou and KU in 2012

Anonymous

#1 5d

You are just wrong

Anonymous

#1 5d

Dont the stats eventually adjust? I think tv ratings are based on representative random sampling but eventually the guess will get closer and closer to reality as the processes improve

Anonymous

#3 5d

about what

Anonymous

#2 5d

Yes, but they don’t adjust fast enough to account for how fast dynamics change in college football. It also doesn’t matter as much to the cable providers, who still mainly sell adspace based on that potential viewership, which if it’s a team like Oklahoma per say, the national brand can account for the lack of media market. But a majority of teams are not in that position

Anonymous

#1 5d

Why do the advertisers fall for that “potential” scam lol the actual viewers will never be as high as potential viewers