Mornin Mates...here is the Daily Star sports section headline this morning "Buzzer-Beating Bomb Stuns Cats"...
More importantly, it "stunned" all of us in the Sun Devil nation and put us in a delirious state of mind since we not only beat the unbeatable Cats but did so at their place...
So, please tell me, in your opinion, which miraculous game ending Sun Devil play was more memorable...
The "Jael Mary" catch to beat the Trojans in football in 2014 or yesterday's shot from Des Cambridge from our own back court at McKale to beat the Cats..??
Today's Topic = Place Your Bets
I've taken the liberty of placing the over-under at $25 million that each PAC team will receive once a TV media deal is in place in the coming weeks, supposedly...
I'm taking the "under bet" since we do not already have a deal in place and since the linear media platforms like ESPN, FOX, ABC and NBC already have plenty of deals in place, within other conferences, with which to televise plenty of college football to the masses every week in the fall...
Furthermore, the Big-12 got out in front of things, once USC and UCLA announced that they were leaving the PAC, by putting together a deal worth a little more than $30 million to each of their conference teams on a yearly basis...
So, now that the PAC has continued to tread water and dither, in a market that has become very conservative in how they approach these deals, that does not bode well for getting any kind of deal that would enhance the PAC's ability to move up in the media driven world...
And, as a result, what is the over-under for the PAC to remain in business..??
Is it six months or less..??
Is it a year or less..??
Or, is it ironclad that if the PAC reaches almost any deal that the conference will stay intact..??
Relatedly, as I've brought up before, why would a program like the Oregon Ducks want an equal distribution of PAC media money, when three to five times the game audiences watch them play football, than most of the other teams in the PAC, once the Trojans and Bruins leave the conference in another year..??
Are we going to end up with financial tiers in the PAC based primarily on how many fans watch each team in the PAC..??
If so, maybe the Ducks get $30 million a year while our Sun Devils, in a lower tier, get only $20 million a year...
Maybe the revenue should be tiered this way...
If you get over 1.25 million viewers per game average, you get a tier one cut in revenue, while a tier two per game average of a 750K or more a game gets less revenue, but more than a tier three level per game average of less than 500K viewers, etc...
In any event, if the PAC's media deal is heavy on the streaming side of things, which appears very likely, will anyone be watching in enough numbers to justify at least $30 million to each PAC program..??
As Hansen points out today in our newspaper down here the local Barstool Arizona Bowl, that was streamed, only drew 130,000 concurrent viewers while the low-brow Independence Bowl that was televised by ESPN drew 2.4 million viewers...
He goes on to state "if you think the PAC Network had difficulty getting viewers, wait until you can only watch Oregon vs ASU (he had AU here) from a premium streaming service"...
That, he concludes, will lead to just one word...CLICK...
So, let's return to our two questions for the day...
1) are you taking the over or under on the PAC reaching a deal where each team receives at least $25 million per team annually..??
2) and, are you taking the over or under on the PAC surviving for at least another year or so..??
Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen...
Bonus Question: was the big win yesterday over the Cats enough to save Bobby's job at ASU..??
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
More importantly, it "stunned" all of us in the Sun Devil nation and put us in a delirious state of mind since we not only beat the unbeatable Cats but did so at their place...
So, please tell me, in your opinion, which miraculous game ending Sun Devil play was more memorable...
The "Jael Mary" catch to beat the Trojans in football in 2014 or yesterday's shot from Des Cambridge from our own back court at McKale to beat the Cats..??
Today's Topic = Place Your Bets
I've taken the liberty of placing the over-under at $25 million that each PAC team will receive once a TV media deal is in place in the coming weeks, supposedly...
I'm taking the "under bet" since we do not already have a deal in place and since the linear media platforms like ESPN, FOX, ABC and NBC already have plenty of deals in place, within other conferences, with which to televise plenty of college football to the masses every week in the fall...
Furthermore, the Big-12 got out in front of things, once USC and UCLA announced that they were leaving the PAC, by putting together a deal worth a little more than $30 million to each of their conference teams on a yearly basis...
So, now that the PAC has continued to tread water and dither, in a market that has become very conservative in how they approach these deals, that does not bode well for getting any kind of deal that would enhance the PAC's ability to move up in the media driven world...
And, as a result, what is the over-under for the PAC to remain in business..??
Is it six months or less..??
Is it a year or less..??
Or, is it ironclad that if the PAC reaches almost any deal that the conference will stay intact..??
Relatedly, as I've brought up before, why would a program like the Oregon Ducks want an equal distribution of PAC media money, when three to five times the game audiences watch them play football, than most of the other teams in the PAC, once the Trojans and Bruins leave the conference in another year..??
Are we going to end up with financial tiers in the PAC based primarily on how many fans watch each team in the PAC..??
If so, maybe the Ducks get $30 million a year while our Sun Devils, in a lower tier, get only $20 million a year...
Maybe the revenue should be tiered this way...
If you get over 1.25 million viewers per game average, you get a tier one cut in revenue, while a tier two per game average of a 750K or more a game gets less revenue, but more than a tier three level per game average of less than 500K viewers, etc...
In any event, if the PAC's media deal is heavy on the streaming side of things, which appears very likely, will anyone be watching in enough numbers to justify at least $30 million to each PAC program..??
As Hansen points out today in our newspaper down here the local Barstool Arizona Bowl, that was streamed, only drew 130,000 concurrent viewers while the low-brow Independence Bowl that was televised by ESPN drew 2.4 million viewers...
He goes on to state "if you think the PAC Network had difficulty getting viewers, wait until you can only watch Oregon vs ASU (he had AU here) from a premium streaming service"...
That, he concludes, will lead to just one word...CLICK...
So, let's return to our two questions for the day...
1) are you taking the over or under on the PAC reaching a deal where each team receives at least $25 million per team annually..??
2) and, are you taking the over or under on the PAC surviving for at least another year or so..??
Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen...
Bonus Question: was the big win yesterday over the Cats enough to save Bobby's job at ASU..??
G'day Mates and Go Devils!!!
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