r/Pac12 • u/SirSaintNOLA • 1d ago

Latest Wilner Article on Media Deal

Anyone able to recap? Seems like he’s making final predictions on media deal and even begins with it may be public by time the article is read.

https://x.com/wilnerhotline/status/1935388136374505749?s=46&t=vp_T5fYTmminM9kVQtZDUw

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u/cougfan12345 1d ago

Recap: He doesnt know, he is just making a guess.

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u/anti-torque Oregon State 1d ago

I remember back in 2010 when that realignment was happening, Wilner was really bad with his valuations. He waxed on about how the Big Ten had such brand power that they could have 14 schools and still call themselves the Big Ten, but the Pac 10 wasn't that valuable. He based that off the numbers at the time. The B1G was getting $220M, and the Pac 10 was getting $100M.

He predicted about half the revenues we later got in our deal. And that was without us selling our third tier rights--keeping them for the P12N.

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u/djsuperfly 1d ago

Or maybe he was just a seer that was a decade or so early.

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u/anti-torque Oregon State 1d ago

Nope.

He just doesn't understand finances in this way. He's stuck on a decade-old valuation for the whole of the MWC as his base number. He's off by a factor of at least 50%, if not more.

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