Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

Wouldn't have minded this 20 years ago

I’ve been putting tomato and quinoa in gumbo for much longer than 20 years

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Cal is no slouch when it comes to research - think Livermore Labs, think top geological research. Willing to guesstimate that they bring in more than Michigan, let alone Ohio State.

Livermore is a physics research lab, think nuclear weapons. It's managed in part by Cal, but also by Bechtel and our own Battelle Memorial.

In any event, Berkeley's total research funding is less than tsun or Ohio State (or UCLA, Washington and Wisconsin) primarily because they don't have a medical school, which is the primary driver for the majority of university research. Had UC-San Francisco been designated part of Cal-Berkeley rather than a stand-alone campus, that combined research number would beat out Johns Hopkins as the highest in the country.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

 

[dragurd]

Hilarious thing about Colorado, Arizona. Arizona Stater were the worst 3 in PAC for ratings now you can argue Deon will bring up the ratings for Colorado but still

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Hilarious thing about Colorado, Arizona. Arizona Stater were the worst 3 in PAC for ratings now you can argue Deon will bring up the ratings for Colorado but still

You need any more evidence that the B12 is drunk at closing time?

 

[BB73]

Some times, a school just needs to admit that it's defeated.

2016 version of The Game instantly came into my mind.

 

[TampaBuckeyes]

So Stanford and cal will probably go big west for their non football sports. For football do they go independent or stay with the pac after they add 6-8 mwc school?

Cal needs the football money as they can’t dip into their endowment to pay for sports as it is split over all 10 schools and not that large comparatively. At least they are getting the calimony from ucla. I’m curious how the other UC schools manage their athletic budgets.

Stanford I expect would go independent as pulling 50M a year from their endowment fund is I think 0.1% of the total.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Some good ones from this morning.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Nevermind. I found the best one yet.

 

[Mike80]

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Although I want nothing to do with those fake army cultists, he isn't wrong on the SEC doesn't give a F about them.

Scrolling through Twitter the past couple of days and the Oregon and Washington fans are overwhelmed with the B1G's social media team posting about them in a positive manner. They feel the PAC-4 never pushed for them.

However, no flipping way would I want aTm, FSU, Da U, or Clemson in the B1G.

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[Bestbuck36]

Holy shit what a basketball conference

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

"Big" here seems to mean "also ran"

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Hey, the first time the fake army band marches in formation up Madison's main drag, I am ALL in on it.

 

[Dryden]

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