Writer Jeff Hansen quotes from the Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast about the potential Big 12 TV deal with Marchand saying, "Look, if I’m the Big 12 I might wait, quite honestly. If you go 16 months from now and you can bring in all the other players and negotiate with them. If I’m ESPN, and to a lesser degree Fox, I’m being a little more aggressive. If I’m them, I want to box out those others – I don’t want Amazon to have a chance at this. Let them have the PAC-12 and let that go into oblivion. If I’m ESPN, is it going to cost me more in a year and half than it does now? I would say it would cost you more. So, pay a little bit more than you probably want right now, it probably makes sense," he said. "I’ve been bullish on Amazon. The reason I said oblivion before is because I don’t know if it works with college football – especially not with lesser tier college football. PAC-12 has some good teams, but without UCLA and USC, they don’t really have many marquee teams who are contending for a national championship." Ourand had some opposing views to Marchand so read that & more in the article!