…less sense than USC and UCLA competing in the Big Ten. What’s more, the Bay Area schools are contractually bound to the ACC until the conference’s grant-of-rights agreement with ESPN…
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…departing next summer. The contracts with ESPN and Fox expire, so they would not break the grant-of-rights agreement; nor do the conference bylaws include an evergreen exit fee. But for…
…by Fox and the Big Ten presidents early the morning of Aug. 4, Oregon and Washington would have signed the grant-of-rights and the conference would be intact. — We wrote…
…join in time for the 2024 season. Those requests assuredly would be granted, and the Mountain West would move forward with 14 football schools and 13 basketball schools. (Hawaii participates…
…But only the four remaining schools have the power to shut everything down and turn out the lights. What was commissioner George Kliavkoff’s rationale to secure the grant of rights…
…through its majority stake in the Big Ten Network which, in turn, controls the league’s grant-of-rights agreement. Any decisions on media partners and expansion run through Fox, which is essentially…
…Kliavkoff’s watch. Granted, Kliavkoff inherited a difficult situation because of massive strategic mistakes made by his predecessor, Larry Scott. But Colorado’s defection was a clear vote of no confidence in…
…and the university presidents sign a grant-of-rights agreement. That grant-of-rights deal, which binds each school’s media revenue to the conference and provides vital security, “has already been negotiated,” Kliavkoff said….
…the conference would have more money for the campuses, wider distribution for its football content and a stabilizing grant-of-rights deal that likely would have run into the 2030s. The L.A….
…crucially, will the annual valuation reach the threshold needed to prompt the presidents to sign the essential grant-of-rights agreement, which binds each school’s media rights to the conference? Those details…
