[NU Sports] Fwd: From my UT Insider Newsletter

Mon Jun 14 17:38:04 CDT 2010

Harry brings up an excellent point.

At the same time, what is shaking out right now may well be a fundamental
reorganization of the college landscape in which the traditional model,
based in geography, gives way to a new model based on television
opportunities and revenues. The Big Ten Network is a game-changer, ladies
and gentlemen.

Geography is a lovely notion. But so was the Pony Express, in its time.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:34 PM, <hakirsch at aol.com> wrote:

> Hard to view kansas as anywhere near "The Pacific". Besides changing the
> "10", maybe need to change the "Pacific"
>
> Harry
>
> Harry
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> >From UT Insider Newsletter
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> UT Wants to Go to Pac 10,  But Legislature Wants to Hold Hearings On Move
> The Texas Board of Regents  meets at 11 a.m. Tuesday and was expected to
> put its stamp of approval on the  Longhorns move to the Pac 10, but the
> Texas
> Legislature is threatening the  move.
> Texas was ready to lead  Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and maybe
> Texas A&M into the  Pac 10, and still might do it, but the Legislature
>  wants
> to hold a  hearing on it Wednesday.
> Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas,  who chairs the House Higher Education
> Comnmittee, said he has talked to the  presidents of Texas, Texas A&M and
> Texas Tech,
> and is  confident they won't take action until the legislative  hearing.
> It would be nice if the  Legislature would let the schools' governing
> bodies do what is best for the  schools, but Branch doesn't feel that way.
> Texas A&M is  considering going to the SEC instead of the Pac 10, and if
> the Aggies keep  considering that option, someone like Kansas might get
> their
> spot in the Pac  10.
> The new schools, plus  Colorado, which joined the Pac 10 last week,  will
> join Arizona and Arizona State to make up a new eight-team  division.
> The Pac 10 voted to expand  because the league wanted a lucrative
> championship game and also wanted a  better television contract.
> The Big 10 and SEC have  much better TV contracts than the Pac 10 and Big
> 12, but putting California and Texas, the two most populous states in the
> country, together in one conference will command big-time TV  bucks.
> California has about 37 million  people and Texas has about 25 million
> people. That is  62 million folks in just two states, and is about 20% of
> the
> total  U.  S. population.
> Washington is No. 13 with slightly  more than 6.6 million, Arizona is No.
> 14 in  total population with 6.6 million, Colorado  is No. 22 with 5
> million,
> Oregon is No. 28  with 3.8 million  and Oklahoma is No. 29 with 3.7
> million.
> Add all those states'  population and you will have 87.7 million people, or
> about 14% of the total  United  States' population in the new Pac  10.
> The SEC states add up to  54 million, and the Big 10 states have about 67.5
> million, and both those  leagues have television contracts that pay their
> teams a lot more than the Big  12 teams or Pac 10 teams get.
> But 2011 is the year the  Pac 10 renegotiates its television contract, and
> it will have much more to  sell with all those new people and new TV sets.
> For those who go to the  games, the distances to the new schools will be
> greater, but almost all of the  Pac 10 schools are either in big cities
> that
> have airports or they are very  close to big cities that have airports.
> That is not the case in  the Big 12. It is a conference where fans have to
> fly to a big city and then  drive for one to three hours to get to the
> school.
> Austin is by far the biggest  city in the Big 12, although Colorado is in
> Boulder, which is only 20 miles from Denver.
> But Missouri, Iowa State,  Oklahoma State, Kansas and Kansas State are all
> more than an hour away  from a major city with an airport.
> The move won't affect the  2010 schedules and it probably won't affect the
> 2011 schedules, but it  oculd.
> The great thing about all  this is that Nebraska started it by jumping to
> the Big 10, and Texas just  reacted by going to the Pac 10.
> The new Big 10, which is  really 12 because Penn State was the 11th member
> and Nebraska is the 12th  member, will have more people in its states with
> Nebraska coming aboard, but  it still won't be able to match the new Pac
> 10.
> Another great thing about  all this is that the Big 10 and SEC are going to
> have a very hard time coming  up with enough expansion teams in surrounding
> states to come close to the new  Pac 10 in population.
> The guys who run the TV  networks and negotiate the TV contracts are good
> at counting, and those nearly  90 million people in the states of the new
> Pac
> 10 are impressive and will be  just as impressive at contract time.
> With the two eight-team  divisions in the Pacific Conference, the schools
> in each division will play  seven games against each other and probably two
> games against the teams in the  other division, one at home and one on the
> road.
> Then, the next year, the  two teams on the road will complete the
> home-and-home series, and the third  year will have two other teams in the
> other
> league coming aboard for a  home-and-home series.
> That will mean Texas will play all  eight of trhe teams in the other
> division twice in an eight-year  span.
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