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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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Abenaki said:
I think something like: Stanford, Oregon, Washington, UNC, UVa, GT, and Miami is what will end up happening. Mix of academic brands, athletic brands, and markets. Gets you nationwide, with foot holds in SEC country and regular road trips to recruiting hot beds.
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Just sayin': A drive to/from Seattle/Miami would be about as far as you can get for a road trip to a B1G conference (or any other conference for that matter) football game.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Also can't load up a school with 3 perennial powers and give another school 3 perennial cupcakes. OTOH, I think they're going to bend over backwards to have Ohio State and tfun (those fucksticks up north) out West as much as possible. Which is why I think it might break down as:

Ohio State: tfun, pedsters, UCLA
TFUN: Ohio State, Sparty, USC
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You need to trademark tfun.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
If I'm right about 120M ND is literally leaving double their current take on the table only to be overwhelmed in as little as 6 years
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Yeah....but....Fielding Yost was mean to us.

In any event, their list of "conditions" tells me they are nowhere close to being a productive and positive member of the Big Ten. Best to let them crawl off. If in seven years, they want to crawl back with a better attitude, we'll listen.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
If I'm right about 120M ND is literally leaving double their current take on the table only to be overwhelmed in as little as 6 years
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My guess is it's not coincidental that there's a Notre Dame specific escalator in a contract signed by both the B1G and NBC and that Notre Dame will be in sometime during the contract. Maybe they need to lay some groundwork first, maybe they want their own special announcement not crowded by the Pac-12 schools. But while they are dicks, even they're not stupid enough to pass up that much money.
 
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Abenaki said:
My guess is it's not coincidental that there's a Notre Dame specific escalator in a contract signed by both the B1G and NBC and that Notre Dame will be in sometime during the contract. Maybe they need to lay some groundwork first, maybe they want their own special announcement not crowded by the Pac-12 schools. But while they are dicks, even they're not stupid enough to pass up that much money.
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I actually think they are every bit stupid (and arrogant) enough to pass on B1G money to keep their independence. Hell, I believe that the "conditions" list was so outrageous that they knew it was a poison pill to get laughed out of the room. They're just devious enough to have gone through the motions so that they could tell their faculty that they tried but "the B1G was being unrealistic."
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I actually think they are every bit stupid (and arrogant) enough to pass on B1G money to keep their independence. Hell, I believe that the "conditions" list was so outrageous that they knew it was a poison pill to get laughed out of the room. They're just devious enough to have gone through the motions so that they could tell their faculty that they tried but "the B1G was being unrealistic."
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We'll see. I think the walls are already closing in on them. The longer they hold out, the better, IMO. Every day that passes the Big Ten position gets stronger.
 
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ESPN - "Save The Date: All Eyes On 2023 For Conference Realignment" - written 6/27/2017

From the article:
"Realignment appears to be in sleep mode. For now. But the potential for realignment -- and the strategy for when it surfaces again -- never completely leaves the radar of college sports' power brokers. That's why they're thinking about 2023.

Why 2023? It starts with expiring TV contracts. The ACC and SEC both have long-term media grant-of-rights agreements, running through 2035-36 and 2033-34, respectively. But the other three Power 5 conferences have agreements ending roughly around the same time (the SEC's Tier 1 deal with CBS runs through 2023-24). The Big Ten last summer opted for a shorter agreement with Fox and ESPN, which runs through 2022-23. The Pac-12 deal expires after the 2023-24 sports year, and the Big 12's ends the following year."
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SEC has a grant of rights through '33-'34. I think that casts Florida and Georgia leaving the SEC prior to that as highly unlikely... but I dont know what makes up the terms of their GOR
 
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BuckTwenty said:
ESPN - "Save The Date: All Eyes On 2023 For Conference Realignment" - written 6/27/2017

From the article:


SEC has a grant of rights through '33-'34. I think that casts Florida and Georgia leaving the SEC prior to that as highly unlikely... but I dont know what makes up the terms of their GOR
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Chance of Georgia and Florida leaving the sec is Zero!
 
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Bold predictions
  • Dennis Dodd: At some point during the season, the Big Ten will announce further expansion and revenue sharing with the players, thereby lapping the SEC not only in dollars but prestige and recruiting. These could be the checkmate moves commissioner Kevin Warren wants to make.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...s-projected-order-of-finish-bold-predictions/

Just sayin': I'll make a "bold prediction" too. Dennis Dodd is full of shit.......:lol:
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Bold predictions
  • Dennis Dodd: At some point during the season, the Big Ten will announce further expansion and revenue sharing with the players, thereby lapping the SEC not only in dollars but prestige and recruiting. These could be the checkmate moves commissioner Kevin Warren wants to make.
Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...s-projected-order-of-finish-bold-predictions/

Just sayin': I'll make a "bold prediction" too. Dennis Dodd is full of shit.......:lol:
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How is that "checkmate"? Does that kill the SEC?
And yeah - Dennis Dodd is a goob.
 
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