Fan Nation
Forums
Forum list
Search forums
Rules & Policies
Podcast
Mobile App
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Shop
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forum list
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Horned Frog Athletics
Scott & Wes Frog Fan Forum
Big 12 in position to poach Pac 12 schools?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Limey Frog" data-source="post: 3302508" data-attributes="member: 16969"><p>Clearly ESPN will go to a subscription direct-to-consumer model sooner or later, whenever that becomes more valuable than carriage fees from the declining cable bundle model. For that to work, they have to have 'must see' content: i.e., the SEC. They need more than that, but in college sports the SEC will be the anchor of their model if this switch is going to work. </p><p></p><p>People keep saying "streaming is the future," and they're right, it is. But in 1900 motorcars were the future. That doesn't mean that everyone who started making motorcars in 1901 was automatically successful. Not all streamers who try the sports marketplace will make it. If you're the SEC, you're basically a king-maker in this regard because you can guarantee your streaming partner millions of subscribers. So if you're one of the conferences that fans might watch but could also live without and might not pay for, do you want to be with the parties that have the conferences that everyone wants, or do you want to try your own thing with someone else? </p><p></p><p>That's the problem, I think, for the Pac. I keep seeing Pac 12 people saying "everyone will be streaming soon, what's the big deal?" or "N% of Big 12 games are on ESPN+, that's streaming!" like it's a some kind of "gotcha". The point is, 5-10 years from now almost all college sports will be behind a paywall on ESPN, Fox, and maybe a couple of other places. There's a hard cap on how many subscriptions people will buy. Big 12 fanbases are big enough for ESPN to do business with us, but they aren't big enough on their own to generate the kind of revenue it takes to sustain major football and basketball. We need neutrals to see us and we need a cut of the cash from their paying to do so. For that, we need to be in the same subscription streaming ecosystem as the SEC. Right now, the Big 12 is contractually in position to have that; the Pac isn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Limey Frog, post: 3302508, member: 16969"] Clearly ESPN will go to a subscription direct-to-consumer model sooner or later, whenever that becomes more valuable than carriage fees from the declining cable bundle model. For that to work, they have to have 'must see' content: i.e., the SEC. They need more than that, but in college sports the SEC will be the anchor of their model if this switch is going to work. People keep saying "streaming is the future," and they're right, it is. But in 1900 motorcars were the future. That doesn't mean that everyone who started making motorcars in 1901 was automatically successful. Not all streamers who try the sports marketplace will make it. If you're the SEC, you're basically a king-maker in this regard because you can guarantee your streaming partner millions of subscribers. So if you're one of the conferences that fans might watch but could also live without and might not pay for, do you want to be with the parties that have the conferences that everyone wants, or do you want to try your own thing with someone else? That's the problem, I think, for the Pac. I keep seeing Pac 12 people saying "everyone will be streaming soon, what's the big deal?" or "N% of Big 12 games are on ESPN+, that's streaming!" like it's a some kind of "gotcha". The point is, 5-10 years from now almost all college sports will be behind a paywall on ESPN, Fox, and maybe a couple of other places. There's a hard cap on how many subscriptions people will buy. Big 12 fanbases are big enough for ESPN to do business with us, but they aren't big enough on their own to generate the kind of revenue it takes to sustain major football and basketball. We need neutrals to see us and we need a cut of the cash from their paying to do so. For that, we need to be in the same subscription streaming ecosystem as the SEC. Right now, the Big 12 is contractually in position to have that; the Pac isn't. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Which team did TCU defeat in the College Football Playoffs?
Post reply
Forums
Horned Frog Athletics
Scott & Wes Frog Fan Forum
Big 12 in position to poach Pac 12 schools?
Top