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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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exhawg said:
I think it probably is time to break football away from the rest of college sports to make the lives of every other college athlete easier. I understand every coach from other sports complaining about flying from the east coast to the west coast to play a game. Say you are the Maryland women's bball team and you have to fly out to the west coast for a week or two to play all 4 west coast teams. If you're a player you have to go to class virtually and live out of a hotel. This is college where you go to get an education not a professional sport. Take football out of it and let the conferences go back to what they used to be. Old school Big 10, Pac 10, etc.

As far as football, go to a model similar to English soccer. Top 20 teams are in a Premier League with the next 20 teams being in a lower league on down the line. Every team gets to play 2 cupcake games and a rivalry game (must be within 1 division up or down) during the season so the MAC type schools still get their money and a game like The Game are protected. The 20 teams are broken into 2 groups where a team plays the other 9 teams in their group then the 2 champions play each other for the title. The bottom 4 teams drop down to the lower division every year and the top 4 teams in the lower division move up for the next year. Each league has their own TV deal so the top schools get the most money. Keep the bowl games and maybe even include them in the relegation process where you play a game to try to stay in your league so more of the bowl games have weight.
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Agree with you 100%.

At some point they have to understand they have created a lower tier professional football league and quit trying to fit that reality onto the framework of the Universities. Two different kinds of organizations. Two different business models/missions.

Let the schools keep most of the money from licensing but spin off the day to day management (and regulatory headaches the NCAA, Title IX etc bring).

They opened the door to this once they started with a playoff model. There is no going back so you may as well go all the way and do it right.
 
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kujirakira said:
There is more value in adding GTech; even though they suck on the field. It doesn't matter. What matters is that they can deliver Atlanta and Georgia has some amazing talent. The big downside to GTech, especially now, is that they're locally overshadowed by Georgia. GTech is not The flagship school in the state
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Georgia Tech is incredibly interesting as a future expansion candidate, because they tick all the boxes except for on field football product

They've got the media market, which would disrupt that regional conference down south. They have the academic research dollars. They've got the fan base, even without being the flagship school of the state. They are in one of the top 4-5 biggest recruiting hotbeds in the entire country

As funny as it sounds, Georgia Tech could be an up-and-coming, culture-changing head coach away from being a serious candidate for an invite in the future from the B1G
 
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exhawg said:
I think it probably is time to break football away from the rest of college sports to make the lives of every other college athlete easier. I understand every coach from other sports complaining about flying from the east coast to the west coast to play a game. Say you are the Maryland women's bball team and you have to fly out to the west coast for a week or two to play all 4 west coast teams. If you're a player you have to go to class virtually and live out of a hotel. This is college where you go to get an education not a professional sport. Take football out of it and let the conferences go back to what they used to be. Old school Big 10, Pac 10, etc.

As far as football, go to a model similar to English soccer. Top 20 teams are in a Premier League with the next 20 teams being in a lower league on down the line. Every team gets to play 2 cupcake games and a rivalry game (must be within 1 division up or down) during the season so the MAC type schools still get their money and a game like The Game are protected. The 20 teams are broken into 2 groups where a team plays the other 9 teams in their group then the 2 champions play each other for the title. The bottom 4 teams drop down to the lower division every year and the top 4 teams in the lower division move up for the next year. Each league has their own TV deal so the top schools get the most money. Keep the bowl games and maybe even include them in the relegation process where you play a game to try to stay in your league so more of the bowl games have weight.
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We're definitely in the same page. I think every sport needs relegation to keep things fresh. No one wants to keep watching the same shitty teams get worked every year, except maybe the SEC and their mid-season abominations. I figured it would be 64 teams but I can get behind any number like 20 or 32 also.
 
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exhawg said:
I think it probably is time to break football away from the rest of college sports to make the lives of every other college athlete easier. I understand every coach from other sports complaining about flying from the east coast to the west coast to play a game. Say you are the Maryland women's bball team and you have to fly out to the west coast for a week or two to play all 4 west coast teams. If you're a player you have to go to class virtually and live out of a hotel. This is college where you go to get an education not a professional sport. Take football out of it and let the conferences go back to what they used to be. Old school Big 10, Pac 10, etc.

As far as football, go to a model similar to English soccer. Top 20 teams are in a Premier League with the next 20 teams being in a lower league on down the line. Every team gets to play 2 cupcake games and a rivalry game (must be within 1 division up or down) during the season so the MAC type schools still get their money and a game like The Game are protected. The 20 teams are broken into 2 groups where a team plays the other 9 teams in their group then the 2 champions play each other for the title. The bottom 4 teams drop down to the lower division every year and the top 4 teams in the lower division move up for the next year. Each league has their own TV deal so the top schools get the most money. Keep the bowl games and maybe even include them in the relegation process where you play a game to try to stay in your league so more of the bowl games have weight.
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RIP to the 60 Bama scholarships for womens rowing.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Agree with you 100%.

At some point they have to understand they have created a lower tier professional football league and quit trying to fit that reality onto the framework of the Universities. Two different kinds of organizations. Two different business models/missions.

Let the schools keep most of the money from licensing but spin off the day to day management (and regulatory headaches the NCAA, Title IX etc bring).

They opened the door to this once they started with a playoff model. There is no going back so you may as well go all the way and do it right.
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How many people would watch if Buckeyes football were privatized into the Columbus Meerkats?
I bet attendance drops to 20k within a decade, and tv eyeballs by a similar proportion.
 
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