Do (Big Blue) Wildcats (also) agree?
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It could happen but there are a lot of barriers that would have to be removed for this to happen. UK and Vandy would really have to step up their programs to compete or get used to being even more of whipping posts.
our rifle and equestrian teams are going to be so awesome when all that new money starts rolling in
I think the rifle team already is, and do you think the equestrian team will be English Dressage or Western?
The media world is going through dramatic changes that make it hard to see some of these things working out. ESPN has lost 10 million subscribers in the past two years. The Longhorn network is losing them money. Conferences will need to figure out how to make the most money in an ala carte internet driven tv world, and that world is coming very fast. The near future is going to be very different from what we have been used to....
I myself have already switched to the chord cutting sling tv app a long time ago. And I'm never going back to satellite. Sling TV is just way too cheap if an option that you can cancel and renew whenever you want with no charges. Here soon going to cancel because of baseball season and I have the Watchespn app without slingtv. Then when football season starts. Slingtv with the sports package here I come again. By far the best option in television IMO when talking about cost efficient.
Not saying it will not happen but Mike Bianchi knows nothing factual,never has never will.
Before the latest expansion UK, UF, USC and UGA had the votes and an agreement to veto FSU, Louisville, Clemson and Georgia Tech from becoming members. With the recent expansion I don't know if 4 votes is enough to keep anyone out, A&M could join in to keep Texas out, but not sure Texas wouldn't be a better situation than A&M. OU can't come without Okie St. like VT and Virginia state legislature have them tied together, so its both or none of those 2. ACC is looking to expand themself, with ND being a big target and they are in the ACC with everything already except for football, I think. No idea who they would go after next to keep the divisions equal, WVU maybe for the Big12. IF those 2 joined the ACC, their TV contract would close the gap quite a bit with the SEC's. But SEC then could add OU, Okie State, Texas and TCU, effectively putting the Big12 out of business. Texas is a big state, those schools are farther apart than many SEC schools in different states. Okie State wouldn't do much for the footprint, but if the SEC wants OU they have to be included. Take those 4, move AU and Bama to the East. Bama would go alone with it because they could play AU and UTn every year which is a big holdup right now. I don't know how thrilled the Eastern teams would be to have Bama moving in, but if ND joins the ACC I don't see pulling anyone out of the ACC being an easy thing to do.
Well, does the sec just take okie st and OU then move Auburn to the east like was mentioned early this spring???
Bama playing ut and aub every year cross division makes me think not but who knows anymore. I still think east Carolina and Oklahoma make a lot of sense. We'd have to reshuffle conf because no way UK, vandy, and ecu are in same division without some west teams crying loudly.
Bama playing ut and aub every year cross division makes me think not but who knows anymore. I still think east Carolina and Oklahoma make a lot of sense. We'd have to reshuffle conf because no way UK, vandy, and ecu are in same division without some west teams crying loudly.
Not only are the media going through dramatic changes, but so to is the world of TV and entertainment. The broadcast networks are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with streaming. It's not just Netflix anymore, there are many options which as you say are ala carte. I've read a lot of articles about this in Forbes, the WSJ, etc, and it's the exclusive rights the networks have to sporting events like the Super Bowl, the NCAA tournament, etc. which are largely keeping them going. If streaming ever manages to get into sports then TV networks as we have known them may go the route of history. We already have outfits like NF and Amazon which are creating their own content, and they are much less restricted and regulated than the networks. I'm an avid streamer myself. I hook my LT up to my big screen HDTV via HDMI to HDMI, and control it with my wireless mouse. I can watch anything that's out there with no commercials including movies currently in theatres. The only thing I can't watch that way are sports. It's the last frontier for streaming.
