"Jedd Fisch held a Zoom call with the parents of every player and told them Arizona will not take a bad deal and will know where they will be soon.
This is basically a realignment press conference at this point and I haven’t asked one of the questions."
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I wonder how much Oregon and Washington are involved. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re hoping for a bad deal so that they PAC collapses and they can try to get into the B1G.
If the Big 10 wants Oregon and Washington then they would have taken them with UCLA and USC. I just don’t see how the conference falling apart benefits them when they aren’t guaranteed anything.
UO and UW definitely want to have that linear exposure, and it sounds like there won’t be much of that with this deal. I don’t know how either of them would sign this deal, even if they didn’t care about the money, and even if they had to wait some years to join the B1G if that’s an option.
I’ve always thought that it wasn’t so much that OUT left that was the problem, culturally speaking. I think the problem was that the rest of the B12 was in cruise control knowing they were in a a conference with two blue bloods.
The nuB12 could handle UO and UW planning an exit, they just shouldn’t panic about it. Hold them to the same rules as everyone else, don’t give them outsized influence, and in a few years run projections on the next media deal without them. If they only stick around for one media deal, then so be it, but no reduced exit fees or letting them not sign a normal GoR or anything else weird. If they’re available it’s because the B1G doesn’t want them, same as everybody else. If that changes, then it changes LATER.