(04-17-2015 11:08 PM)JRsec Wrote: 6. The SEC has no GOR: Among our schools no. With ESPN for the SECN, yes.
Mark's rule of the GOR. The GOR is like Jerry Seinfeld on duty free shopping, the duty is doodie.
The GOR in the case of ACC and Big XII just means they get paid like the schools are still there. If they are more valuable elsewhere, the market will allow them to move.
The overlooked by most vital element of GOR, if you want to add a school, and the network owning that school's rights via the GOR wants that school to move, it makes moving more efficient to achieve. If the network thinks the move is not in its best interest it is a significant roadblock.
Right now B1G is in an incredible spot. If a TV exec were told he could have only three P5 leagues and would have to concede the other two the pick is SEC, Big 10, and Pac-12. You can have a dandy product with just Big XII and ACC or those two and one of the other three but your best bang to reach a huge number of people willing to change providers to get the product, and to get a lot of eyeballs is the first three. If you are ESPN and don't want FS1 to narrow the gap, you want all the non-BTN content from the Big 10 and Big 10 is the best product entering the marketplace.
Locking up Big 10 to a long-term deal freezes FS1 out of all the goodies until 2021 when the current NFL deal expires. Limiting FS1 to some baseball, a piece of Big XII, a piece of Pac-12, soccer and UFC until 2021 keeps FS1 from being a major player.
If ESPN can keep FS1 marginalized then helping encourage Mizzou to abandon SEC is a logical play.
But such a play still depends on what Mizzou wishes to do. If Maryland was worth a $30 million upfront payment, B1G may very well be capable of making the Tigers a hard to refuse offer.
Let's also never forget there are egos at play. Big 10 has raided Big East, ACC, and Big XII. Nothing would be a greater ego stroke than raiding SEC.