Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[cincibuck]

So Washington and Oregon are taking halfish shares in order to join the B1G, but Rutgers gets a full share? Maybe in the next tv deal they should work out revenue calculation where the bottom 5 schools get smaller shares and the top 5 get more. That might get some of the have nots to do what it takes to try to not to suck as much.

I think the bottom feeders are using the money to upgrade facilities … Purdue, NW, Maryland, Rutgers, and Indiana had a long way to go In terms of stadium and practice facilities. They didn’t have the ticket revenue anywhere near the Big Three prior to BTN.

 

[cincibuck]

Meanwhile, in South Bend

Excellent!

 

[cincibuck]

Nicole Auerbach must feel like a fool now...checks where she went to school...now realizing that she's incapable of regret or self-awareness.

Yeah, but you gotta like those hooters.

 

[cincibuck]

Private equity isn't a piggy bank. "Equity" is literally in their title. You're going to sell off equity in a chunk of part of a public university so you can change foosball leagues? Tell us why the B1G would never touch you without telling...

OTOH, private equity is really good at gutting the assets of what they "invest" in and then casting off the empty carcass. So, this might get really entertaining a few years from now.

They spent most of the 20th century as a girls school. Maybe this will help them get back to there.

 

[cincibuck]

It is officially done

https://bigten.org/news/2023/8/4/general-big-ten.aspx

Washington packs a huge research punch. Oregon not so much, but an interesting setting outside of monsoon season.

 

[cincibuck]

Big Ten Track and Field got a whole lot better (with Oregon). That's for certain.

Hayward Field (if you ever visit) is awesome.

I was stationed at Ft. Lewis in spring of 68 ahe drove down to Eugene to see Fosbury do the flop.

 

[cincibuck]

So what happens to the MAC schools if the Big Ten drops to two ooc games? they’re already taking money from the general fund to have football?

 

[DaveyBoy]

So what happens to the MAC schools if the Big Ten drops to two ooc games? they’re already taking money from the general fund to have football?

Sadly enough, all the players will become gray shirts…..perpetually. The women’s sports will die too

 

[Oregonbuck]

beavers and wasu going from 20m a year to 4. Ouch.

beavers and wasu going from 20m a year to 4. Ouch.

I grew up in Newark and moved to Oregon 30 years ago (after living in 11 other states). Still a big-time Buckeyes fan. I feel very sorry for the Beav's. One of the founding members of the PACXX. Just invested a ton of money in doubling the size of their stadium. Passionate fan base. Honestly, they deserve better

 

[Dryden]

So what happens to the MAC schools if the Big Ten drops to two ooc games? they’re already taking money from the general fund to have football?

Approximately nine D1-AA/FCS schools have moved up to 1-A/FBS in each of the last three decades chasing money. This season there will be 133 FBS teams. In 1993 there were 106. In 1983 there were 105.

TV inventory at the top level has become diluted. Both linear and streaming carriers just signaled to the PAC-12 that they’re good with nothing when the alternative is a substandard product in an undesirable time slot. The big state schools that have invested in football for 100+ years aren’t going to continue subsidizing their instate rivals with $3 million paycheck games any longer when they can just add a “conference game” with Rutgers, and NJ residents will happily tune in to watch their home team lose while turning on the money spigot.

Many lower profile schools are going to have drop football, go Independant, or drop back down to FCS or even Division II — where many of them always belonged in the first place. Let’s be honest about the current climate of competitive imbalance here… last season Ohio State scored 77 on eventual MAC champion and Boca Raton Bowl winner Toledo. People were apoplectic OSU played “poorly” and only won by 56.

 

[Jake]

Some of the remaining PAC 4 teams aren't taking the news well.

 

[Dryden]

Some of the remaining PAC 4 teams aren't taking the news well.

Enjoy Broke PAC Mountain (West).

 

[Dryden]

Some of the remaining PAC 4 teams aren't taking the news well.

Misplaced aggression. Dude should be blaming Pullman, WA DOT and airport authority for not having direct transit from… anywhere in this hemisphere.

 

[Mike80]

Some of the remaining PAC 4 teams aren't taking the news well.

I didn't realize smoothbrain was an insult in current use. I'm going to have to use that at some point

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Stanford is finding out the hard way that Notre Dame only cares about Notre Dame. They'll still take the annual game with Stanford because they crave their announcers spending three hours comparing them to Stanford academically, though. If we take Stanford, we should make them giving up their ND series a condition of it. Petty? Perhaps. Satisfying? Absolutely.