How many conference games should SEC teams play to avoid conference realignment when we renegotiate tv rights as speculated in the link below?
https://247sports.com/college/oklah...ma-Michigan-SEC-Pac-12-Big-10-ACC--118642101/
What does the number of conference games we play have to do with "avoiding" realignment?
If other conferences opt to play regional football, we'll simply do the same.
When conference TV rights begin to expire in six or seven years, my Amazon source says that Amazon and Netflix could easily be prepared to spend ten times what the networks are projected to have available.
Well, a lot of us have heard this one in another context that goes something like this:
"Texas can pay Saban more than Alabama can."
Well.....that's true. But it's ONLY true if one assumes Texas was going to pay $200 million PER YEAR for a football coach, which everyone knows they wouldn't.
The question is whether these groups have more money that they ARE WILLING TO ACTUALLY PAY to do this.
I seriously doubt Amazon or anyone else wants this so bad they will make an offer ten times above the networks.
Besides- NASCAR offers a precautionary tale of thinking the growth cycle only goes in one direction. And I would add it's been a bad marriage that they're still making work for the sake of the children all the way around.