Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[BuckTwenty]

NJ.com -- "Big Ten Network Strikes Deals with Time Warner, Cablevision for Local Distribution" (5/19/14)

B1G Network now in the NY/NJ market on TW Cable, Cablevision, DirecTV, & FiOS, with Comcast expected to join before the start of football season.

*rubs fingers together*

 

[Dee-Liem]

*rubs fingers together*

 

[ScriptOhio]

NJ.com -- "Big Ten Network Strikes Deals with Time Warner, Cablevision for Local Distribution" (5/19/14) B1G Network now in the NY/NJ market on TW Cable, Cablevision, DirecTV, & FiOS, with Comcast expected to join before the start of football season. *rubs fingers together*

 

[Woody1968]

NJ.com -- "Big Ten Network Strikes Deals with Time Warner, Cablevision for Local Distribution" (5/19/14)

B1G Network now in the NY/NJ market on TW Cable, Cablevision, DirecTV, & FiOS, with Comcast expected to join before the start of football season.

*rubs fingers together*

Still not on RCN

 

[TampaBuckeyes]

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Still not on RCN

no dish? Darn

 

[ScriptOhio]

Boise State president takes aim at power conferences in scathing letter

Boise State once attempted to join a conference it felt was going to be a part of the power conferences in college football. The decision to join the Big East was later rescinded, and the Broncos remained in the Mountain West Conference. Now the president of the university is sounding off about the power shift around collegiate sports, criticizing NCAA reform initiatives seemingly engineered and orchestrated by the big-money conferences.

“The NCAA cannot fall prey to phony arguments about student welfare when the real goal of some of these so-called reformers is create a plutocracy that serves no useful purpose in American higher education,” Boise State president Bob Kustrawrote in a letter, according to CBSSports.com.
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“I have no doubt why the power conferences are working to separate themselves from some Division I universities who still see the value of equity and fairness in athletic funding,” Kustra wrote. “It’s time for the NCAA to take a stand for fiscal responsibility and the rightful place of intercollegiate athletics in American higher education…”

Kustra also took veiled shots at Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and SEC commissioner Mike Slive, two of the most influential people in college sports today. In Kustra’s letter, he makes note of two conferences “taking the lead in calling the shots for the others.” Delany and Slive have played a significant role in changes going on around college sports, thrugh expansion, playoff and rule discussions and initiatives in recent years. Whatever the topic of discussion is, Delany and Slive are two of the most visible voices representing some of the country’s largest institutions.

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...-aim-at-power-conferences-in-scathing-letter/

 

[MaxBuck]

Kustra followed up that correspondence with his next agenda item, outreach to Kenworth, Peterbilt and Mack about the desirability of endowed scholarships at his university as a means of generating future customers.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

An interesting stat: 3 Big Teams are at the top of the list for most money spent on visiting teams.

Holy shit...Ohio State pays visiting teams waaaay more than anyone. We paid visitors $8M while the next generous team was frickin' Minnesota at $4.8M and no other team paid $4M. In other words, we paid more than twice as much as any other school save Minnesota.

 

[Zurp]

Boise State president takes aim at power conferences in scathing letter
“It’s time for the NCAA to take a stand for fiscal responsibility and the rightful place of intercollegiate athletics in American higher education…”
Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...-aim-at-power-conferences-in-scathing-letter/

Translation: "It's not fair! Give us some of your money. Give us some fans, some players. We're sitting here with... what? Blue turf? We have 2006, and maybe a couple of other good memories. Um... Guys, help me out. We have that one guy who proposed to his girlfriend - that was newsworthy. C'mon! Give us some of your loot!!!"

Holy [Mark May]...Ohio State pays visiting teams waaaay more than anyone. We paid visitors $8M while the next generous team was frickin' Minnesota at $4.8M and no other team paid $4M. In other words, we paid more than twice as much as any other school save Minnesota.

[BWI Cult Freak]You think those referees are free? The money O$U pays the referees has to come from SOMEwhere. It certainly doesn't come from the graduates because O$U doesn't ever have a graduating class. F*** Y**, OHowIHate!!![/BWI Cult Freak]

Add some stuff about how Joe is great and I can probably fit in nicely on that board.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Eat an entire bag-o-dicks boysee. Little red hen bitches.

 

[LitlBuck]

Holy [Mark May]...Ohio State pays visiting teams waaaay more than anyone. We paid visitors $8M while the next generous team was frickin' Minnesota at $4.8M and no other team paid $4M. In other words, we paid more than twice as much as any other school save Minnesota.

I do not understand why we do that when the visiting school gets much more exposure by playing us. Maybe my buddy Gene is not thinking correctly… Shocking.

 

[Buckeye737]

This may not explain fully, but I believe OSU had some BCS schools get a one time pay day. For example, we paid Colorado to come to Columbus in 2012. Those deals aren't normally done. It's usually home-and-home or nothing with other BCS schools.

I also wonder if we sometimes overpaid for the Ohio schools to come to Columbus as kind of a courtesy.

 

[ScriptOhio]

This may not explain fully, but I believe OSU had some BCS schools get a one time pay day. For example, we paid Colorado to come to Columbus in 2012. Those deals aren't normally done. It's usually home-and-home or nothing with other BCS schools.

I also wonder if we sometimes overpaid for the Ohio schools to come to Columbus as kind of a courtesy.

Well here's my guess as why we overpaid (if we did):

Cincinnati & Ohio MAC schools = Athletic program welfare/keep the money in Ohio

Youngstown State = Tressel's gift back to YSU

Florida A & M = Gene Smith wanted to help a "black college".

 

[Buckeye737]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was getting at about with the Ohio MAC schools. I don't even know what we pay them on average and whether it's the going rate or not. I'm just throwing the idea out there.

 

[MaxBuck]

Florida A & M = Gene Smith wanted to help a "black college".

FAMU was supposed to be a concert, not really a football game (and that part turned out to be accurate), but then the goofuses in the band decided to get themselves suspended.