Big Ess Fro
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I've been doing some thinking about all this aggy stuff and came to the following relaizations...
There seems to be 3 criticisms of UT in all this realignment mess:
#1 - "The Big XII shares revenue unevely, which is unfair". It is not as if UT automatically gets a bigger share. It is doled out pro rata based on television appearances. Since it is TV MONEY it seems like there is no fairer way to dole it out. This can't really be the current aggie gripe because a) it's always been this way and b) I imagine they are average or so on the sharing, so even doling it out evenly would have no big impact on them.
#2 "the LHN means that UT will be getting an even bigger (i.e., unfair) slice of the pie." This is bunk. For starters, with the lone exception of the Rice-UT game, this is totally incremental revenue. The money currently being shared is from broadcast rights of football games. With the lone exception of Rice, this is all new content on LHN that previously was not on TV. This is our content. Should we share revenue from sales of T-shirts? From concession sales? No...we share revenue related to the broadcasts of football games, not from things such as a 4 hour pregame show that only UT fans will watch.
(side note, even the Rice game being on LHN isnt a big deal since that means it will NOT count toward our revenue sharing on the FOX/ESPN contracts)
3) It gives UT an advantage in recruiting DING DING DING DING DING. First of all, this is obviously true. Tell a recruit that there will be a station that his girlfriend and mama can watch that will have highlights of him scoring TDs running 24/7 and hell yeah he'll sign with us.
You really know that #3 is the real reason is that aggy didnt talk about going to the SEC last month until the argument heated up about broadcasting HS games.
So why do I bring this up? Two reasons.
First of all, while it has become conventional wisdom that all things in college football are motivated by $, I just don't think that is the reason aggy is leaving (based on my points on #1 and 2 above)
Second of all, it is because if they are leaving because they don't like the advantage that we'll have, well that's just hilarious. Big bad aggy is afraid of us having an advantage, so they are bolting!! Afraid of competition???
Ha ha ha ha.
Ignore all the BS about "unfair revenue distributions", etc, Red Herring. They are leaving because they can't keep up with the Jones.
Mr. Jones
There seems to be 3 criticisms of UT in all this realignment mess:
#1 - "The Big XII shares revenue unevely, which is unfair". It is not as if UT automatically gets a bigger share. It is doled out pro rata based on television appearances. Since it is TV MONEY it seems like there is no fairer way to dole it out. This can't really be the current aggie gripe because a) it's always been this way and b) I imagine they are average or so on the sharing, so even doling it out evenly would have no big impact on them.
#2 "the LHN means that UT will be getting an even bigger (i.e., unfair) slice of the pie." This is bunk. For starters, with the lone exception of the Rice-UT game, this is totally incremental revenue. The money currently being shared is from broadcast rights of football games. With the lone exception of Rice, this is all new content on LHN that previously was not on TV. This is our content. Should we share revenue from sales of T-shirts? From concession sales? No...we share revenue related to the broadcasts of football games, not from things such as a 4 hour pregame show that only UT fans will watch.
(side note, even the Rice game being on LHN isnt a big deal since that means it will NOT count toward our revenue sharing on the FOX/ESPN contracts)
3) It gives UT an advantage in recruiting DING DING DING DING DING. First of all, this is obviously true. Tell a recruit that there will be a station that his girlfriend and mama can watch that will have highlights of him scoring TDs running 24/7 and hell yeah he'll sign with us.
You really know that #3 is the real reason is that aggy didnt talk about going to the SEC last month until the argument heated up about broadcasting HS games.
So why do I bring this up? Two reasons.
First of all, while it has become conventional wisdom that all things in college football are motivated by $, I just don't think that is the reason aggy is leaving (based on my points on #1 and 2 above)
Second of all, it is because if they are leaving because they don't like the advantage that we'll have, well that's just hilarious. Big bad aggy is afraid of us having an advantage, so they are bolting!! Afraid of competition???
Ha ha ha ha.
Ignore all the BS about "unfair revenue distributions", etc, Red Herring. They are leaving because they can't keep up with the Jones.
Mr. Jones
