Doitnow swc poker3/23/2023 ![]() ![]() However, when hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, as there are in the GOR agreement, and it’s covered by a 4-page contract that is a simple grant without any termination or dispute resolution procedures, that in and of itself is a massive deterrent to anyone challenging the agreement. When you have a 200-page contract that covers every single scenario possible, that document might have been complex to draft but it’s usually a fairly straight-forward process in terms of applying it. The Grant of Rights agreement is intentionally ambiguous.Īs someone that served some hard time in the slammer of a large corporate law firm, fighting over ambiguous contracts can rack up mountains of billable hours more than virtually any other type of litigation. In fact, there isn’t any procedure at all about what would occur in the event that a member leaves the conference other than a couple of flat statements that the GOR is in effect for such member until 2025 no matter what. There isn’t any mechanism to calculate potential damages for a member leaving early. What’s most instructive about the GOR contract is what it doesn’t say. As we’ve noted here previously, this means that even if, say, Texas were to leave for the Big Ten or Pac-12, the GOR mandates that the Texas first and second tier rights would still be owned by the Big 12 until the GOR period ends in 2025. The Big 12 Grant of Rights agreement (the “GOR”) states that each school will grant to the conference its applicable media rights (in this case, first and second tier tights for football and men’s basketball) for the duration of the term of the agreement, regardless of whether such school is a member of the conference or not. If the Big 12 Grant of Rights agreement is substantially similar to what the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC have in place (and there isn’t much reason to believe that there would be much deviation), it makes little sense to believe that more realignment is imminent. Further consolidation among the power conferences is possible, but it continues to seem more likely to occur in the 2020s at the earliest. What does this all mean? Like Castiglione, I’m still thinking nothing at least in the short-term. Of course, the quote ignores the context of the conversation, as it appears that Castiglione also said that such realignment would be over the next “10 to 15 years” as opposed to immediately. This is plausibly relevant since OU is one of those schools that could be in the mix if all of this starts swirling again. Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione on Sirius XM College: I don’t believe realignment is over. Joe Schad of ESPN then Tweeted this quote from Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione yesterday: To be sure, the chatter actually did produce something of value in the form of a West Virginia(!) an Ohio State fan procuring a copy of the Big 12 Grant of Rights agreement, which we’ll take a look at in a moment. ![]() This of course got the blog and message board world humming again with apocalyptic tales of the Big 12 and/or ACC imploding along with the Big Ten adding anywhere from 2 to 10 schools. Hint: The conference will begin negotiating on a new TV deal next year. Sir-Mix-A-Lot!)įirst, Dennis Dodd of casually drops the following in a column last week about the latest power conference meetings:īig Ten expansion: It isn’t done. ![]() I can’t help but smile at some of the memories of these songs, particularly from my junior high years of 19. (* For your perusing pleasure, Billboard put together a list of the top 10 songs for each summer since 1985. I’ve been trying to write about topics other than conference realignment lately, but our favorite blogging crack habit has been buzzing in my ear like a hit summer song that you can’t avoid (see “Blurred Lines” now and “Call Me Maybe” last year)*. ![]()
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