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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

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Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.2%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 19 6.1%

  • Connecticut

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • Duke

    Votes: 21 6.7%

  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 55 17.6%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 46 14.7%

  • Maryland

    Votes: 67 21.4%

  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%

  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 209 66.8%

  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 24.9%

  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%

  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%

  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%

  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.7%

  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%

  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.0%

  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.8%

  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.6%

  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%
  • Total voters
    313
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knapplc;2330852; said:
Click the headline for the full piece. Interesting stuff, since I don't buy for a second that either the B1G or $EC is done expanding.
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I hope you're right. Because I hope Jim Delany's endgame wasn't Rutgers. Do you realize how bad of an athletic department Rutgers is?

At the least, Maryland is competitive in certain sports.

His expansion was Rutgers and Maryland? The SEC got Missouri and Texas A&M.

I wonder what happens if schools split from the NCAA (in terms of all this stuff).
 
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VBSJ;2330867; said:
His expansion was Rutgers and Maryland? The SEC got Missouri and Texas A&M.
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No, his expansion was Penn St, Nebraska, Maryland & Rutgers.

The SEC got A&M, Arkansas, Missouri & South Carolina.

If you need to rank them:
Penn State/Nebraska
A&M
Arkansas
Maryland/Missouri
Rutgers
 
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They did a fine job forcing their members to stop negotiating and discussing leaving.

As for disproving the instability of the conference that is a pretty odd conclusion. This is a pretty huge shift and absolutely a reaction to the many publicly known adulterers in your league.

Maybe I am naive but I don't recall the sec or big ten owning the rights to all of their members for the next eon.

I also am curious to see what the actual revenue is for a conference that is a staple of Thursday nights and struggles to fill its small stadiums and laughs at the notion of attending the championship games.

2025 is hardly a deal breaker either. That is basically a decade out as teams typically join a few years after an announcement. What it does is stops the land rush.

As for revenue streams, if the acc is getting their own network in the current market and only making 20m hypothetically, then they aren't going to stack up very well against a big ten league that is up for renegotiation and may move to Fox's host of networks.
 
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jwinslow;2330888; said:
As for revenue streams, if the acc is getting their own network in the current market and only making 20m hypothetically, then they aren't going to stack up very well against a big ten league that is up for renegotiation and may move to Fox's host of networks.
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Are going to FOX (not may) :biggrin:

ESPN chose their side with the SEC Network and that whole promotion. So if you stay, you'll be No. 2, since they have the deal with the SEC. Only way they stay with ESPN is if there deal is so much more than FOX.

The SEC doesn't have Grant of Rights, but the Big Ten does.

With all the financial problems Florida State has, I don't know why they'd agree to this. Theoretically, they could be making half of what Florida makes on an annual basis. Multiply that over a number of years.
 
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IronBuckI;2330886; said:
There's only one guy reporting this, with everyone else using him as their source, correct?
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The GOR? It's official & is posted on the ACC site.

jwinslow;2330888; said:
Maybe I am naive but I don't recall the sec or big ten owning the rights to all of their members for the next eon.
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The B1G was the first conference to do an aggregate media rights deal when the BTN was formed. The SEC will be signing one soon with for the newe eSECpn network.
 
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