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Feels like a Rutgers starter kit. Team getting some good results against poor competition then will vanish from the earth in a deep conference.
Independent media is few and far between, but we can be sure there's some great stories in this saga waiting for a good journalist. I doubt one shows up.
I suppose it would depend on how many are leaving , but for starters the schools moving on would seek to settle with those without an immediate new home. The more that want to leave, one could ponder that there's less of a conference that exists to even enforce the provision. Wouldnt it be nice to get a hold of that contract language. It's sort of like if 49 states were to secede and Vermont decides not to secede, who keeps all the Federal assets in Hawaii or anywhere else? Vermont? Obviously not the best analogy, but you get the point.
Why would more than like the 4 that would be going to the SEC want to leave? Syracuse isn’t going to want to join Conference USA.
I would like it because of proximity and them being an old Big 8 team, but that's about as far as it goes and I don't get a vote. The more I thought about it the other day, the less sense it made.
I still chuckle that Rutgers outmaneuvered all of them and yet the media gives them zero credit for engineering the equivalent of a powerball jackpot while the BC/Syracuse/Pitt brands all get pummeled by 50% less cash, bad tv slots and bad performances in the ACC.Steve Tasker said:
Considering the BIG won’t be taking Clemson FSU or Miami who exactly would they want out of there? Ok, I could see UNC but who else? The plate is empty. Even if they took Duke, that’s only 5-6 out of 14 members who would want to dissolve.
I’ve seen UVA and GT mentioned along with UNC. Pitt too. Syracuse and Pitt would be delighted of course. And those scenarios would tear the heart out of a reformation of the Big East *and* ACC— but not the Big East *or* ACC.
Clemson, FSU, Miami, NC State, and VT to the SEC? UVA, Duke, UNC, GT to the B1G? But that would require all 3 conferences to be in on dissolving the ACC and screwing over the leftover teams.
There’s no reason to kick this scenario to the side. Fox 49% ownership of the low-carriage PAC12 network would be a hurdle, but there’s hurdles in every downstream scenario.
There is absolutely no way the BIG is taking Pitt and or Syracuse. Virginia and GT are fine programs with great academics but they also don’t add any television eyeballs. Can’t see any of them going to the Big 10.
Yes this is also a conceivable idea but how much does that improve the tv contracts? Clemson/USC and or Oregon/FSU annually adds value but nobody is watching Wazzou/Wake Forest
Tend to agree. But here we have articles literally spelling out how Pitt could get an invite. This could get whacky. It could be one and done. While I wouldn’t sign up for any one scenario as even close to likely, i would say (and I’m guessing you’d agree) that there will be some sort of downstream move that can lead to more dominoes falling.
Well the ND/USC and ND/Stanford games assuming both happen. Miami gets ratings and whoever is currently good like UNC this year would too.
Yea I think ultimately it ends with some sort of scenario where the bottom half of the ACC is getting a lot less money in some future tv contract. Not sure how it all plays out though.
They already have multiple states with 2 schools in the conference, what’s one more? Honestly, they’d probably benefit from just leaning into the whole Midwest thing, and running with it.
Purdue and NW would never get in now if they were in another conference and were begging to get in. The thing no one ever mentions when they talk B10 expansion is they are looking for flagship state universities. Schools like Pitt, Syracuse, Cincy are not getting an invitation, no matter how great an academic school they are or how good their football team is. Right now there is no school that checks all the boxes. And if they even want to expand, how many teams they want to go to
Could see that maybe but not sure how it benefits Big 10. They already make more than the SEC and will continue to clean up financially mo matter what - honestly they are the one conference who really can just sit still and do nothing.
In fact, you could make the case that - absent ND joining - the best thing B1G could do is stand pat.
I guess that depends on what you love about college football. As long as the Universities still sponsor the teams, I don't know that much will change. I mean - I am a Michigan fan. I don't really care if I lose the Ball State or Eastern Michigan game or whatever. I'd rather have those games against P5 teams.
I hear you. I don’t think it’s going to go away or anything, not within the next 50 years or so, and as you said we’re all just rooting for laundry anyways so as long as they have the right shirt on a lot of people will be invested. I just think it’ll change in ways we might even be able to predict at this moment.
Perhaps what you mean is that the illusion of amateurism and rah rah zis boom bah has been stripped away for all to see. The even the most naive college football fan finally sees the man behind the curtain. There will still be Saturday morning tailgates, degenerate gamblers wagering on the games, and pretty girls cheering on the sidelines. The fundamental elements will never IMO change; what the game becomes as a defacto developmental league for the NFL will be front and center.
cease and desist doing what, exactly?
Word is they are trying to dump the rest of the B12 off on other conferences so they don’t have to cover the grant of rights fees.
@byjoelanderson: Interesting that this story drops two days after an interview on the @LeBatardShow, where it comes out that ESPN basically gave UT money for the Longhorn Network so they wouldn’t go to the PAC-12 a decade ago. https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1420505265452032014
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