Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[ORD_Buckeye]

On the issue of travel burdens, is a chartered team road trip from Columbus to Los Angeles, today, a bigger burden than a chartered team road trip from Columbus to Minneapolis was in 1935? I would guess it’s less.

1935, there would have been efficient and civilized train travel. Team would have boarded at the old Union Station in the Short North and after a day of relaxing and playing cards would have arrived at the Union State a mile or two from Minnesota's campus.

 

[buckeyemania11]

The Big 10 made out better than the SEC because we didn’t get stuck with Texas. They may not win the conference but they will kill the conference.

Add Oregon & ND and it's a total home run.

 

[Zem]

I think USC is 2-0 in the 'Shoe, so hopefully that wrong can be righted relatively soon. It would have taken until the 2060's at the current rate if they weren't joining the B1G. And our NC hopes were spoiled in USCLA's backyard on more than one occasion, so maybe we can return the favor in C-bus in conference play a few times before I croak.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

The Big 10 made out better than the SEC because we didn’t get stuck with Texas. They may not win the conference but they will kill the conference.

Add Oregon & ND and it's a total home run.

When Texas showed up at the Big Ten's door with their bucktoothed, redneck cousin and were told "send the okies home and come back and we'll talk," you think the B1G was quietly really relieved that Texas never came back.

 

[MaxBuck]

If this is all about media revenue (and it is), the next schools that would make sense to add would be Notre Dame (regardless of our fuck-em attitude, they're an immense media draw), Arizona, North Carolina and the University of Florida. Aside from (believe it or not) Notre Dame, these schools are all AAU members -- also extremely important to B1G university presidents and boards of trustees.

 

[ExpatAkronite]

Bit of interesting trivia (I've lived in the PAC footprint for 40ish years and never knew this...or actually really cared)...the original PAC--Pacific Coast Conference-- was formed here in Portland and the four charter members were Cal, OR, OR St and UW. The So Cal schools would join later (as would Montana and Idaho). It dissolved in 1959 and then reformed as the PAC 8 (while still retaining the history of the PCC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Conference

 

[scarletmike]

Bit of interesting trivia (I've lived in the PAC footprint for 40ish years and never knew this...or actually really cared)...the original PAC--Pacific Coast Conference-- was formed here in Portland and the four charter members were Cal, OR, OR St and UW. The So Cal schools would join later (as would Montana and Idaho). It dissolved in 1959 and then reformed as the PAC 8 (while still retaining the history of the PCC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Conference

Didn’t realize the NW schools organized it, that makes a little more sense why UW and Oregon weren’t the first to bolt and haven’t made any public comments about the situation that I’ve seen. Sounds like the state legislatures of Washington and Oregon are going to do the same legal dog and Pony show that Texas did to try and keep the State schools tied to their big brothers on the coast in athletics.

 

[ExpatAkronite]

There's

Didn’t realize the NW schools organized it, that makes a little more sense why UW and Oregon weren’t the first to bolt and haven’t made any public comments about the situation that I’ve seen. Sounds like the state legislatures of Washington and Oregon are going to do the same legal dog and Pony show that Texas did to try and keep the State schools tied to their big brothers on the coast in athletics.

Been some noise about the state leg requiring the schools stick together but pretty sure it is just noise. Beavs fans I know seem intrigued by the Mountain West!

 

[dragurd]

Didn’t realize the NW schools organized it, that makes a little more sense why UW and Oregon weren’t the first to bolt and haven’t made any public comments about the situation that I’ve seen. Sounds like the state legislatures of Washington and Oregon are going to do the same legal dog and Pony show that Texas did to try and keep the State schools tied to their big brothers on the coast in athletics.

So they choose death by starvation for both instead of killing one to save the other?

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

So they choose death by starvation for both instead of killing one to save the other?

There are reps from Corvallis in that legislature. There are OrSU alums in that legislature. All of them will do anything to give the Beavers their best chance; none of them care if that hurts the ducks. To some of them, that’s a bonus.

This isn’t a prediction about what the legislature will do; this is just giving the Corvallis faction credit for being normal human beings. Whether their faction has any chance of getting their way is beside the point (and something I know nothing about)

 

[buck1973]

There's

Been some noise about the state leg requiring the schools stick together but pretty sure it is just noise. Beavs fans I know seem intrigued by the Mountain West!

The Oregon legislature is not in session. They don't convene again until next January. The governor or the majority of both houses would have to call a special session.

 

[Zurp]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/sport/usc-ucla-big-ten-spt/index.html

Apparently all remaining 10 teams aren't committed to the "Conference of Champions"; Oregon and Washington are looking to join the B1G too.

Kind of reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine found the Bizarro group, and she chose the Bizarro group over the regular group. Then, George tried to go, too. "We already have a George."

 

[ExpatAkronite]

The Oregon legislature is not in session. They don't convene again until next January. The governor or the majority of both houses would have to call a special session.

Gee, thanks for the PSA. Is that a new feature with the platinum subscription (or did I miss something)?

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Gee, thanks for the PSA. Is that a new feature with the platinum subscription (or did I miss something)?

Well, if you don't know then you obviously can't afford it.

 

[BigWoof31]

Bad news guys. ND is about to dictate terms.




To recap:
They are demanding a greater percentage of revenue sharing by leveraging a non-existing SEC membership offer against the B16