Why do you say the Ducks are grinning? Oregon never wanted this chaos. UCLA and USC opened the door, Colorado went through it, the PAC12 fumbled the media negotiations, there is zero chance that the two Arizona teams, Utah, Washington and Oregon were having what if? conversations before the Apple+ offer was presented. After that is was s…
Why do you say the Ducks are grinning? Oregon never wanted this chaos. UCLA and USC opened the door, Colorado went through it, the PAC12 fumbled the media negotiations, there is zero chance that the two Arizona teams, Utah, Washington and Oregon were having what if? conversations before the Apple+ offer was presented. After that is was simply a game of dominoes. Suddenly the PAC12 is the PAC4... soon to be who knows what?
Last posted details on the Apple deal was that they raised the minimum offer to 25M per year per team, that's more than what the ACC gets. There was a spattering of linear games from the networks included for another $40M+ per year so call it $3M per team. The combined media deal was a minimum of $28M per team per year. Apple would have had the rights to also add other games to linear partners (most likely ABC/ESPN) - there would have been more games on linear TV than people realized. Needless to say the Apple deal was misrepresented by people that didn't want to really understand how it work so they had a reason to leave - UO/UW. The MLS has a similar deal with Apple, $250M a year minimum. They are forecasted to do $50M more in the first year - $300M. They have 70% of the subscriptions needed already sold (over 1M subscribers added). Had the Pac12 rolled the dice they would have likely made more than the B12 offer or what UO/UW are getting from the B10. The media landscape was more challenging for sure but from a money perspective it was as good or better than the offers the departing schools got. The Arizona schools and Utah had committed to stay but it was conditional that everyone stay. UO and UW didn't show up for the call. UO later notified the group they were leaving for the B10, UW immediately followed. Later that evening after a lot of passionate discussion led by ASU's President to stay together, the last 3 corner schools decided to go. Sure USC orchestrated the first domino but UO delivered the death blow.
Why do you say the Ducks are grinning? Oregon never wanted this chaos. UCLA and USC opened the door, Colorado went through it, the PAC12 fumbled the media negotiations, there is zero chance that the two Arizona teams, Utah, Washington and Oregon were having what if? conversations before the Apple+ offer was presented. After that is was simply a game of dominoes. Suddenly the PAC12 is the PAC4... soon to be who knows what?
Last posted details on the Apple deal was that they raised the minimum offer to 25M per year per team, that's more than what the ACC gets. There was a spattering of linear games from the networks included for another $40M+ per year so call it $3M per team. The combined media deal was a minimum of $28M per team per year. Apple would have had the rights to also add other games to linear partners (most likely ABC/ESPN) - there would have been more games on linear TV than people realized. Needless to say the Apple deal was misrepresented by people that didn't want to really understand how it work so they had a reason to leave - UO/UW. The MLS has a similar deal with Apple, $250M a year minimum. They are forecasted to do $50M more in the first year - $300M. They have 70% of the subscriptions needed already sold (over 1M subscribers added). Had the Pac12 rolled the dice they would have likely made more than the B12 offer or what UO/UW are getting from the B10. The media landscape was more challenging for sure but from a money perspective it was as good or better than the offers the departing schools got. The Arizona schools and Utah had committed to stay but it was conditional that everyone stay. UO and UW didn't show up for the call. UO later notified the group they were leaving for the B10, UW immediately followed. Later that evening after a lot of passionate discussion led by ASU's President to stay together, the last 3 corner schools decided to go. Sure USC orchestrated the first domino but UO delivered the death blow.