Category Archive: TV Contract

Say hello to the Palouse Pirate: Washington State hires Mike Leach

"That's Captain Jack Sparrow to you, sir"

  Bill Moos promised us fireworks.  He wanted asses in his Martin Stadium seats, and points on the scoreboard. The old blue collar kinda guy? He wasn’t quite cutting it for the bottom line anymore. Let alone the whole lack of bowl eligible seasons and what not. But thanks to our good pal Larry Scott …

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Pac 12 TV deal! (Just one exclamation point)

The press conference wasn’t as cool as I thought.  The FOX guy showed up in a polo and the ESPN guy in a suit, with a red tie I might add.  They didn’t talk dollars and cents, but explained that the men’s football and basketball games will be split between the FOX channels and ABC …

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Pac 12 TV deal!!!! (Yeah its that awesome)

In about 15 minutes (8am PT) Larry Scott presumably is going to announce the most lucrative TV contract in NCAA sports history.  I’m hearing numbers of upwards of $3 billion, yes with a B.  That would give each team in the Pac roughly $21 million dollars a year and that’s without a Pac 12 TV …

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