Want to buy the Pac-12?

[MadNY3]

My argument on the unsustainability front would be that conference revenues and the related arms race will push many, many teams and conferences to the sidelines eventually. Not all, mind you, but many. The SEC and B1G are miles ahead of the rest right now. They have built-in advantages that others don't. Someone posted the a link to the top tv ratings week by week. The SEC and B1G dominate. And even there, it's a handful of programs in those two conferences.

College sports will continue but I think some schools in the P5 are even getting priced out of the highest levels of it.

That’s already been happening. Down to superconferences, the football P5 and dominance of majors in March Madness. Nothing is new and Syracuse was teetering to some degree lesss than 10 years ago when The Big East was being raided.

 

[SWC75]

What are they buying? 10% of the value of the 12 schools? or is the Pac 12 a separate corporation the 12 schools own stock in?

 

[nzm136]

What are they buying? 10% of the value of the 12 schools? or is the Pac 12 a separate corporation the 12 schools own stock in?

Closer to the 2nd. It’s actually a separate entity that the PAC owns. That separate entity owns pac media rights, which are really those of the individual schools.

 

[SWC75]

Closer to the 2nd. It’s actually a separate entity that the PAC owns. That separate entity owns pac media rights, which are really those of the individual schools.

We've come a long way, haven't we?