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<blockquote data-quote="Mountaineer Steve" data-source="post: 129611420" data-attributes="member: 1495432"><p>So yesterday we read both FOX and ESPN are angry and BIG12 regarding expansion. Now this story says that is NOT true and FOX is not only for G5 expansion but is pushing it. So are we to think the 1st reporter didn't do a good job a checking his facts?</p><p></p><p></p><p>excerpts:</p><p>There was recently an article from the Sports Business Daily in which the authors claimed that both FOX and ESPN were "pushing back" against the Big 12 in regards to expansion. The article claimed that the two major sports networks felt that adding teams from the Group of Five would dilute the product the conference was putting out.</p><p></p><p>This could not be further from the truth.</p><p></p><p>FOX has been one of the leading proponents of Big 12 expansion over the last year as the network tries to get more college sports to air across its family of channels. This has been discussed repeatedly in the past, because FOX Sports only has the tier 1 TV rights to the Big 12 and Pac-12. Meanwhile, ESPN has tier 1 rights to the SEC, ACC, partial Big Ten, BYU, The American and many others.</p><p></p><p>ESPN has had some issues with Big 12 expansion, but that is mostly due to the targets the Big 12 wants. The league has had discussions with and about Cincinnati and Memphis for months, in addition to Houston, UConn, BYU and others. The first four schools listed are all in the American Athletic Conference, which is under contract with ESPN. BYU is also tied to ESPN through a contract to air home games in Provo. Colorado State is the only team that the Big 12 has seriously considered and isn't tied directly to ESPN.</p><p></p><p>So the truth is that yes, ESPN would like the Big 12 to avoid poaching its hottest Group of Five property - the AAC - or take away BYU, which has a buyout clause in case a Power Five comes knocking. However, FOX wants, needs and is driving this round of expansion in order to compete with ESPN and avoid continually paying its competitor for content to air</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bcsnn.com/big-xii/9221-fox-continues-support-for-big-12-expansion-with-g5-teams.html">http://www.bcsnn.com/big-xii/9221-fox-continues-support-for-big-12-expansion-with-g5-teams.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mountaineer Steve, post: 129611420, member: 1495432"] So yesterday we read both FOX and ESPN are angry and BIG12 regarding expansion. Now this story says that is NOT true and FOX is not only for G5 expansion but is pushing it. So are we to think the 1st reporter didn't do a good job a checking his facts? excerpts: There was recently an article from the Sports Business Daily in which the authors claimed that both FOX and ESPN were "pushing back" against the Big 12 in regards to expansion. The article claimed that the two major sports networks felt that adding teams from the Group of Five would dilute the product the conference was putting out. This could not be further from the truth. FOX has been one of the leading proponents of Big 12 expansion over the last year as the network tries to get more college sports to air across its family of channels. This has been discussed repeatedly in the past, because FOX Sports only has the tier 1 TV rights to the Big 12 and Pac-12. Meanwhile, ESPN has tier 1 rights to the SEC, ACC, partial Big Ten, BYU, The American and many others. ESPN has had some issues with Big 12 expansion, but that is mostly due to the targets the Big 12 wants. The league has had discussions with and about Cincinnati and Memphis for months, in addition to Houston, UConn, BYU and others. The first four schools listed are all in the American Athletic Conference, which is under contract with ESPN. BYU is also tied to ESPN through a contract to air home games in Provo. Colorado State is the only team that the Big 12 has seriously considered and isn't tied directly to ESPN. So the truth is that yes, ESPN would like the Big 12 to avoid poaching its hottest Group of Five property - the AAC - or take away BYU, which has a buyout clause in case a Power Five comes knocking. However, FOX wants, needs and is driving this round of expansion in order to compete with ESPN and avoid continually paying its competitor for content to air [URL]http://www.bcsnn.com/big-xii/9221-fox-continues-support-for-big-12-expansion-with-g5-teams.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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