Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[Dryden]

There is no contract or signed document. This is currently a "Gentlemen's Agreement."

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences include:

• World-leading academic institutions committed to the shared values of supporting the next generation of leaders.
• Innovative research that benefits communities around the world.
• 27 of the 34 Autonomy 5 members in Association of American Universities (AAU).
• 34 institutions ranked in the Top 100 national universities by US News & World Report.*
• Broad-based athletic and academic programs.
• A long heritage of leadership in diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Over 27,000 student-athletes competing on 863 teams in 31 sports.
• A combined 1,019 NCAA Championships.
• Longstanding relationships across bowl partnerships, men’s and women’s basketball challenges and Olympic Sport events.
• 194 Olympic medals won in Tokyo by current, former and future student-athletes.**
• Some of the most iconic and historic venues in college sports.
• Hundreds of millions of dollars in direct annual institutional support of student-athlete scholarships.
• Over $15 billion in annual federal research support, nearly one-third of the total across all colleges and universities.

*The other 7 shall hereby be known as the Mongo7
**163 of them by Stanford.

 

[dragurd]

There is no contract or signed document. This is currently a "Gentlemen's Agreement."

Yeah that was expected makes it easy to break should anyone do so. No way any of the conferences would sign anything that would prevent them from going in their interests.

 

[Woody1968]

WVU to ACC is a no brainer to me, but everything else is perplexing.

 

[dragurd]

So supposedly Dave Wanstedt has gone on the radio (670 in Chicago) and stated that the Pac, B1G and ACC will be taking 5 of the remaining Big XII programs.

- OSU and KSU to the Pac-12
- WVU to the ACC
- KU and Iowa State to the Big Ten

Supposedly this was leaked last week at the Fox/conference meetings, but could be total BS. Hopefully BS or a lot of pissed off people in the near future.

Seems very BS Pac12 I can see no way they take KSU. KSU is dead man walking. If it comes to pass I expect OSU that TTU to the Pac

 

[buckeyemania11]

This whole thing looks like a joke

 

[Dryden]

 

[buckeyemania11]

"we romantically gazed in each others eyes, that's enough for us"

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

It will hold together until it no longer is in the B1G's interest for it to hold together. In the meantime, it buys us time.

 

[buckeyemania11]

"What is all of this"

"we really have no idea"

 

[Dryden]

Can we call this alliance Sum 41?

 

[AJHawkfan]

This is currently a "Gentlemen's Agreement."

Wasn't the BigXII commish mostly boo-hooing about UT & OU breaking their "gentleman's agreement"?

 

[buckeyemania11]

Kevin Warren sucks but he sure is good at avoiding the question asked by just talking in the same circles over and over.

 

[dragurd]

"What is all of this"

"we really have no idea"

It will hold together until it no longer is in the B1G's interest for it to hold together. In the meantime, it buys us time.

Basically. Doesn't bind anyone they didn't even say they have a gentlemens agreement not to poach each other's conferences. It lives as long as they want it to live no more no less

 

[dragurd]

Kevin Warren sucks but he sure is good at avoiding the question asked by just talking in the same circles over and over.

His decision making sucks or the president's suck and he's the patsy. But he sure seemed the most well spoken and prepared for the press conference