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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 2067994" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>Faith and/or poor and thoughtless legal drafting.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The idea is that it keeps FSU and Clemson on the ESPN side of the ESPN/Fox war. On the theory that given free choice they'd prefer the Big Ten.</p><p></p><p>But the question after the signing of the new CFP deal with just ESPN and a vague hand-wave toward future sublicensing is, is that war even still operative? Are any of these guys even thinking that far into the future.</p><p></p><p>In 2024 any company whose core business is media is bleeding money and hoping for some white knight to buy them. It's an extremely volatile and unpredictable situation, the only certainty for these purposes is that the various sports properties cannot sustain, let alone grow, the media rights fees that have been the cornerstone of the industry for three decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 2067994, member: 746137"] Faith and/or poor and thoughtless legal drafting. The idea is that it keeps FSU and Clemson on the ESPN side of the ESPN/Fox war. On the theory that given free choice they'd prefer the Big Ten. But the question after the signing of the new CFP deal with just ESPN and a vague hand-wave toward future sublicensing is, is that war even still operative? Are any of these guys even thinking that far into the future. In 2024 any company whose core business is media is bleeding money and hoping for some white knight to buy them. It's an extremely volatile and unpredictable situation, the only certainty for these purposes is that the various sports properties cannot sustain, let alone grow, the media rights fees that have been the cornerstone of the industry for three decades. [/QUOTE]
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