Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[Bucknut24]

FIFY

 

[CincyInterloper]

Do you see what happens, North Carolina? This is what happens. This is what happens when you join the Big Ten, North Carolina.

Now, it puts the lotion on the skin. Or it gets the hose again.

 

[buchtelgrad04]

Don't forget to log in fans and vote on which play Cinci should run after receiving the second half kickoff.

A. Run
B. Pass
C. Double reverse with a throw back to the QB running a streak.
D. Delay of game caused by Tommy Tuberville getting into a slap fight with an assistant coach

Don't forget, every vote enters you into the sweepstakes to pick the conference name for next season. Congratulations to Joe Smith, our 2013 winner, who chose the name "Big Atlantic Leading Local Student Athlete Conference"

The BALLSAC conference? You're nuts!

 

[LitlBuck]

I wonder if Rutgers will get the same deal.

Maryland’s deal to join the Big Ten includes not only the lucrative annual payouts that all members receive, but also a significant concession obtained by the school — a subsidy worth tens of millions of dollars from the conference to offset athletic teams’ anticipated higher travel costs, according to multiple sources.

Since financial details of the agreement are kept private the amount of the subsidy is not publicly available. But the amount is in the range of $20 million to $30 million, according to sources familiar with the deal.

Maryland got the subsidy after assessing the travel-cost implications of leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference, its home for 60 years.

The cost of sending its teams halfway across the country — as far away as Lincoln, Neb. (1,201 miles), and Iowa City, Iowa (905 miles) — was projected by the school to approximately double its travel budget.

http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/03/17/college-sports-report.html

 

[Muck]

I wonder if Rutgers will get the same deal.

From everything I've seen so far...nope.

Maryland deal included multimillion-dollar travel subsidy from Big Ten

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Shortly after adding Maryland — which is to begin in the Big Ten in July 2014 — the conference accepted Rutgers, whose New Jersey location is valuable because of New York's large television market.

Rutgers has also studied the implications of Big Ten travel and is exploring creative solutions, but apparently not subsidies. Most college teams' travel budgets aren't subsidized by conferences.

"I don't think it's so much about subsidies," Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said Thursday. "We were comfortable from the beginning that the revenues are going to equitably address the travel situation. With certain sports like football, we charter-traveled to every game, so football will really look the same. Basketball, there will be some more [travel], but nonconference scheduling will balance that out."

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[DaveyBoy]

I think this story is being leaked to give the Maryland officials some cover for their departure from the ACC. There is a lot of political heat being brought down on Loh and some of the trustees because they bypassed some protocols

I wonder if Rutgers will get the same deal.
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/03/17/college-sports-report.html

 

[Abenaki]

And Rutgers gets?

To go back to the kiddy table with Cincy and UConn if they don't like the situation.

 

[OSU_D/]

The WVU douchebags who have a combined .0000001% truth average are talking all sorts of FSU and Big 10 nonsense today.

 

[VBSJ]

The WVU douchebags who have a combined .0000001% truth average are talking all sorts of FSU and Big 10 nonsense today.

That correctness factor (from them), you're probably a little high with that too.

 

[dav713]

To go back to the kiddy table with Cincy and UConn if they don't like the situation.

Putting aside everything else for a second, it's not like the new Big East is compact and centered around Rutgers. They would have had trips to UCF, Memphis, Houston, SMU, Tulane, and East Carolina. So, I don't think joining the Big Ten will increase their travel bill by much, if at all.

 

[Piney]

The WVU douchebags who have a combined .0000001% truth average are talking all sorts of FSU and Big 10 nonsense today.

The funny thing is one WVU guys is saying FSU is in and a DIFFERENT WVU guy is saying FSU told their regents that the B1G will "expand in their direction"

They are just being played like the Northwestern guy, who has since admited that he was played like a fiddle and refuses to talk expansion now. Or course the funny thing is the 'dude' gets all his info from Ohio State people... So the question is, how badly is he being played and for what purpose.

 

[Buckeye737]

Putting aside everything else for a second, it's not like the new Big East is compact and centered around Rutgers. They would have had trips to UCF, Memphis, Houston, SMU, Tulane, and East Carolina. So, I don't think joining the Big Ten will increase their travel bill by much, if at all.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Maryland, on the other hand, had an awfully good set-up for travel in the ACC. Even though they seem to feel they don't fit culturally with the Virginia & NC schools, they had a number of very short trips with UVA, VTech, and the 4 NC schools.

 

[Abenaki]

Putting aside everything else for a second, it's not like the new Big East is compact and centered around Rutgers. They would have had trips to UCF, Memphis, Houston, SMU, Tulane, and East Carolina. So, I don't think joining the Big Ten will increase their travel bill by much, if at all.

Oh yeah, if we're being serious Rutgers travel won't be drastically different compared to what they'd be facing in the New Big East/Conference USA+/whatever the kids are calling it these days...it might even save them on distance traveled.

 

[VBSJ]

If you read the release on FOX Sports and its new agreement with the Big East (i.e. Catholic 7), it really seems like the media deal is laying the groundwork for the Big Ten in a few years.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebas...-multi-platform-media-rights-agreement-032013

I'm assuming that FOX Sports will push for the "TV Everywhere" deal with the Big Ten as well (working the kinks out these next few years with the Big East).

 

[Muck]

Reports: Appalachian State, Georgia Southern to join Sun Belt

Appalachian State and Georgia Southern have been battling in the Southern Conference on the FCS level for years now, but it seems the two programs will be taking their rivalry up another level.

According to multiple reports, both Appalachian State and Georgia Southern will be joining the Sun Belt Conference for the 2015 seasons. The Winston-Salem Journal originally reported on Appalachian State's move and SB Nation reported on Georgia Southern's.

Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson would not confirm the reports when contacted by CBSSports.com.

While Appalachian State is the more familiar name thanks to its upset victory over Michigan in 2007, both schools finished in the top ten of the FCS rankings last season and both have been rumored to be interested to making the jump to the FBS level in recent months.

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Congrats to the Mountaineers.

On an unrelated note the WVU boards are claiming that the ACC has offered Maryland a settlement for the buyout at $33 Million.
Edit: Apparently the source is one of The Dude's tweets.