Courtesy from our Former Big East Brother's on the WVU Mountaineer Board. At least they are not always talking about Football Scandals and hating the Big Ten, PSU Trustees and Pitt such as seen on BWI Boards? As someone said on the Lair earlier today, looks like Finebaum that is a SEC Expert & Great Analysts is putting these things he hears out.
I see this on the rise due to ESPN Demise that is expected to lose 2 to 4 millions Cable Subscribers every year. It confirms what I posted over a decade ago. Expansion back then was about gaining Markets to acquire Cable Subscribers and a few debated it. Now that Cable is Subscribers are going down and ESPN just sign Billions for NFL & NBA, trouble in on the way for all Sports! Meaning expansion is another way to hold it off and slow down the Cable Subscribers drop offs.
It does confirm one thing, the ACC Footprint keeps improving it and good fit for Pitt since the ACC can benefit by Expansion and taking on by winning FB & BB Championships.
Excerpt:
Better roll back the counter on days without the Big 12's stability put in question. ESPN host, college football hot take-a-thon and SEC apologist Paul Finebaum says he thinks that Oklahoma wants out of the conference "pretty desperately" and that "it doesn't take very much" to get the conference expansion wheels turning again in the NCAA. "I think the Big 12 is in big trouble, and I think this is something that we have been able to detect for some time," Finebaum said on Birmingham, Ala., radio station WJOX on Monday. "I don't think the Big 12 as we know it will still be in existence in five years." Finebaum, while naming no sources and saying at one point that what he's sharing is "only rumors," claims that the lack of a Big 12 network plays into the uneasiness. "There are schools in the Big 12 that have looked to get out, and I think continue to look to get out," Finebaum said. "And they can deny it all they want, but they don't have what the SEC and the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ultimately the ACC are going to have, and that's their own network, which is critical in this world of exploding television reality. And I don't know how you can really survive like that.........The radio host asked Finebaum if a Big 12 team winning a national title could alleviate some of the uneasiness."It wouldn't hurt because that is how we judge things," he said. "Look at the ACC. They're bragging in ACC country about winning both in football and basketball. That is significant, especially in football. So it does elevate your profile, but you can't go down on any checklist and tell me where the Big 12 is excelling right now because they're not."....................
LINK:
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/co...ebaum-think-oklahoma-wants-big-12-desperately
I see this on the rise due to ESPN Demise that is expected to lose 2 to 4 millions Cable Subscribers every year. It confirms what I posted over a decade ago. Expansion back then was about gaining Markets to acquire Cable Subscribers and a few debated it. Now that Cable is Subscribers are going down and ESPN just sign Billions for NFL & NBA, trouble in on the way for all Sports! Meaning expansion is another way to hold it off and slow down the Cable Subscribers drop offs.
It does confirm one thing, the ACC Footprint keeps improving it and good fit for Pitt since the ACC can benefit by Expansion and taking on by winning FB & BB Championships.
Excerpt:
Better roll back the counter on days without the Big 12's stability put in question. ESPN host, college football hot take-a-thon and SEC apologist Paul Finebaum says he thinks that Oklahoma wants out of the conference "pretty desperately" and that "it doesn't take very much" to get the conference expansion wheels turning again in the NCAA. "I think the Big 12 is in big trouble, and I think this is something that we have been able to detect for some time," Finebaum said on Birmingham, Ala., radio station WJOX on Monday. "I don't think the Big 12 as we know it will still be in existence in five years." Finebaum, while naming no sources and saying at one point that what he's sharing is "only rumors," claims that the lack of a Big 12 network plays into the uneasiness. "There are schools in the Big 12 that have looked to get out, and I think continue to look to get out," Finebaum said. "And they can deny it all they want, but they don't have what the SEC and the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ultimately the ACC are going to have, and that's their own network, which is critical in this world of exploding television reality. And I don't know how you can really survive like that.........The radio host asked Finebaum if a Big 12 team winning a national title could alleviate some of the uneasiness."It wouldn't hurt because that is how we judge things," he said. "Look at the ACC. They're bragging in ACC country about winning both in football and basketball. That is significant, especially in football. So it does elevate your profile, but you can't go down on any checklist and tell me where the Big 12 is excelling right now because they're not."....................
LINK:
https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/co...ebaum-think-oklahoma-wants-big-12-desperately
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