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The Pac12 will be fine. And I predict that USC and UCLA will soon be falling with egg on their face and heads hanging, regretting their greedy decision. Nobody has repealed the Law of Karma yet. The conference experience is about much more than money, and involves more people than the administrators and operators. I keep hearing Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines saying, "The business of business isn't business. The business of business is people"

Streaming is the future. The trend is set and technology will soon match cable and network. Viewers don't care how the picture on the screen gets there. Here is telling information about the trend (and future of sports viewing):

* Of the top 100 TV programs in 2021, 75 were NFL games

* Amazon is spending $1 billion a year to host Tuesday Night Football

* 13 million viewers Chargers vs Chiefs on Amazon Prime (More people signed up during that period than any time before). In 2021 there were a total 6.5 million Amazon Prime viewers

*Average age (46) of Amazon Prime viewer was 7 years younger than traditional TV viewer (53)

* Major League Soccer and Amazon TV signed $2.5 billion deal

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