(01-22-2020 01:58 PM)joeben69 Wrote: Peak Perspective: Boise State’s Television Deal
https://www.mwcconnection.com/2020/1/22/...ision-deal
For the question posed in that piece:
Quote: But, how does a deal with no expiration date, expire?
One way is, one party breaches it. If the other party brings suit for breach of contract, then that may result in damages that have to be paid for the breach.
But AFAIU, what you are entitled to under rule of contract law is damages if agreements are not upheld: you do not get to dictate what the other party does, but rather have redress to the courts for imposing additional consequences for what they did.
The wrinkle is, the media deal is a bundling of the schools of their original media rights into a conference package, and how breaching the original deal with Boise State affects the status of the conference media rights is something for an IP lawyer to nut out, with the terms of all relevant contracts in front of him/her. IANDL, so besides guessing that it's a mess, I dunno.
The other way is by agreement.
As far as:
Quote: I think it is more likely that Boise State would look to schools like San Diego State and BYU to serve as travel partners
This is a bit silly, but it does demonstrate why a Big Bang move of 3 schools is so unlikely. The AAC would already have filled its spot if BYU was interested in moving to the AAC. And that's not about "not enough western schools", it's about Utah is in the P5, so BYU is going to be Independent if it can't join a P5 too.
And BYU plus Boise State wouldn't be anywhere near enough to draw out SDSU. Given the AAC media money and status, nothing would be enough to draw out SDSU on the original move to the old Big East terms ... SDSU would need a good fit Olympic Sports conference and a west coast partner ... and even that is unlikely to be enough to make it appealing. But to justify the downsides of expanding to 14, the AAC would need a school with a bigger profile than UNLV, Fresno or San Jose. So the Venn Diagram here between the Big Bang move that would draw out SDSU and the Big Bang move that a large number of AAC schools would vote for are two non-overlapping circles, with one (or both) of the two circles quite possibly not actually existing.
It's come to a negotiated resolution, Boise goes Indie and gives up on the Access Bowl race for the forseeable future, or Boise goes hat in hand to the AAC and ask for admission.